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Date:	Fri, 1 Apr 2005 22:32:23 PST8
From:	Colin Campbell <cmcampb@adelphia.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: DNS problem

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Gary Wong wrote:
> Colin Campbell wrote:
>
>> Jordan,
>> Where are you located? I'm curious, because I live in north west
>> Fullerton (near Gilbert and Rosecrans), and Pac Bell has never seen
>> fit to extend DSL into our neighborhood. I'm wondering whether SBC has
>> come into our neighborhood, or is expanding, and may make it soon.
>>
>> It would be nice for Adelphia cable to have some competition.
>> Colin
>>
>> J. R. Fox wrote:
>>
>>> Gary Wong wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>> What kind of DSL service upgrade? You mean SBC Yahoo DSL?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Correct, as I had discussed previously on this list. Shed about 30
>>> bucks a
>>> month in cost, and went from 384 kbps d/l speed to 1.5M. I could have
>>> gone up
>>> to 3 or even 6 (at significant extra cost, of course), because they
>>> installed a
>>> remote terminal with fiber optic cable, which covers all but the last
>>> (2000 ?)
>>> feet. Previously, I had been about 13,000 feet from their DSL trunk
>>> -- or
>>> whatever they call it -- when the max. distance away you can be and
>>> still have
>>> DSL service is 18,000. The new service has only been up about 36
>>> hr.s, but I'd
>>> say it's a rather noticeable improvement, most of the time.
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
> Colin, I have SBC DSL, and I'm off of Sunny Ridge Dr, less than 1/2 mile
> north of Malvern. I've had DSL since 2002.

Wow! I guess that must mean I stopped checking right about the time DSL
became available. We're quite close. Another 1/2 mile up the hill, and
you'd be at my house.
Colin

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