DSL what does it take?

[Summerall]

Anyone out there work for a telco or actually know what it takes to get dsl in a certain area. I mean do they have to install new telephone lines in the area or is it simply new hardware at the central telco office. Please enlighten me. I am waiting for it and I can't stand it.

 

[Yoshi]

New equipment at the CO and new lines to homes/apts. I does not happen over nite.

 

[Scarpozzi]

To my knowledge....I thought they only needed the new equipment at the telco. The lines don't have to be anything special cause the signal just runs on the higher bandwidth end of the existing lines....hence with most installations I've seen you put a filter on your phone lines to filter out the threshhold between your regular signal and your DSL signal to keep interference on the lower end of the bandwidth(voice) to a minimum. The only other requirement is to be within 24,000 ft of a DSLAM. Now....some telcos will go further than this and some will not go quite that far...has something to do with the line quality in that area and the telco's standards...Who knows.

 

[Unclemo]

The vast majority of wiring in this country is suitiable for DSL... it is just the COs that matter... no new wiring should have to be laid...

 

[SupAcHinK]

Correction on that wiring. Adsl is the only dsl capable of being put on regular phone wires. They use a different frequency then normal telephones. It's a little higher I believe. Same technology that is used by PNA. On requirements for adsl is you have to be within a certain distance from your central telephone company normally max length is a mile (distance is noted by the actual distance of the telephone wire not how far you live from the central location).

 

[Xanathar]

However there also cant be any amplification or noice reduction loops or equipment between you and the phone co, hence alot of the delay in setting up lines, the lines work but at those points it has to be rerouted in many cases