Residential Broadband Single Point of Failure (was RE: [ale] DSL Data Points (Long and meandering))

[Ray Knight - Clientlink]

Davis, Ricardo C. wrote:
> My $0.02 regarding residential broadband:
>
> Fulton's experience is not uncommon. One of the reasons why I
> haven't signed
> up for ADSL for my home office is Davis' Corollary to Murphy's Law:  the
> probability of a ADSL network outage is geometrically proportional to the
> need to perform time sensitive work from the home office.
>
> A few months ago when I shopped around for ADSL & Cable Modem
> service, none
> of the providers included the ability to connect to their POP via 56K
> without charging extra per hour rates (yikes!)  I was about to
> sign up with
> Telocity, when my neighbor who has their service related to me a multi-day
> outage during the week...and at that time they didn't have an alternative
> means to connect to their network.  That may be OK for kiddies
> who probably
> need to take a break from their online role-playing game habit, but when
> that quickly-requested report needs to be in by close of business I can't
> take the chance.

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