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DSL question

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Desslok

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How many channel's does a DSL node have? A friend who lives out in a rural area is getting the run around by the local phone company. First they said he was to far away, he stopped one of their techs on the road and asked them and said he was well within the range for DSL. Now they are saying they don't have an open channel on that node and haven't had one since last Nov.

Thanks
 
it really depends on the hardware being used at the CO. Also, the distance you walk to the CO is not the distance of your line. You also have to compensate for coils and whatnot.

I've seen brochures that sell dslams for something like 128k users on a node, but that might have been xdsl.
 
AFAIK, there aren't really "nodes" with DSL, at least not like with Cable.

Basically, the pipe to/from your house is dedicated bandwidth, nobody can take it from you...

However..... the "node" occours at your ISP. Everybody that uses that ISP becomes everybody on the "node". If you have 768k DSL, and your ISP can supply 768k of bandwidth to you, all should be merry.

That's why ISP choice with DSL can really make a difference.
 
what they are saying is that they don't have a free port anymore on the DSLAM. It's possible that all ports are taken and they can not add another card to the rack because it's full. (each customer has a dedicated port on the DSLAM, that is the port where they connect the copper pair and that port handles the syncronisation of the modem/router). The DSLAM is then connected on a node (ATM node in most cases).

If you live in low demand region, they are not going to install a whole new rack and connect it on a node just for one customer. it's just too costly if they are not sure of a certain treshold of subscriptions.

DSLAM range from a few hundred customers to a few thousand (at least that's what we are using).
It depends on the manufacter of the DSLAM (Alcatel, Cisco, Siemens, ....)
 
My dsl slowed to sub-28.8 modem speeds yesterday and Verzion tech support told me to empty my recycle bin.

pfft.. i wish I could get DSL from someone else but only Verizon offers it.
 
Originally posted by: LordJezo
My dsl slowed to sub-28.8 modem speeds yesterday and Verzion tech support told me to empty my recycle bin.

pfft.. i wish I could get DSL from someone else but only Verizon offers it.
Click to expand...

Check out speakeasy. They'll sell you Covad (most likely) and provide helpful tech support (no, I'm not kidding).
 
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