[ale] [OT] AT&T DSL vs RoadRunner cable broadband

[Jeff Lightner]

It doesn't matter what the rules are.   Awful Telephone & Telegraph (as
well as most other ILECs) ignored them and the FCC under Dubya let them
get away with it.  As an apparent quid pro quo they went ahead and did
illegal call data gathering for the NSA.  A spineless Democratic
congress later passed a law preventing prosecution.

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
Jason Fritcher
Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 10:45 AM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] [OT] AT&T DSL vs RoadRunner cable broadband

On Feb 9, 2009, at 7:46 AM, Geoffrey wrote:
> I'm trying to understand this statement.  Whenever I've had dsl  
> service
> with other providers, BS has always been involved because they own the
> 'last mile.'  Back when I had Speedfactory dsl and before that when I
> had ISDN.
>
> To what hardware are you referring?

 From my experience, that would be the Remote Terminals that they  
won't give anyone access to. In my case, my AT&T DSL line on a Remote  
Terminal is only 2500 ft from the RT at the entrance of my  
subdivision. I get 8128/508 syncs there. If I had gone with a provider  
who provisioned through Covad, then they would have had to provision  
the line from the CO, which is 16000 ft from my house. The part I'm  
not so clear on is, can AT&T resellers resell lines terminated to a RT?

-- 
Jason Fritcher
jkf at wolfnet.org




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