16896 feet from central dsl office...

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16896 feet from central dsl office...

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is that good?
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No. That's relly bad. You are about at the end of your rope (Okay, cable) You will not be able to get any reasonable speed at that distance. IDSL at 144k is a possibility.

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Post by YARDofSTUF »

Originally posted by Kip Patterson
No. That's relly bad. You are about at the end of your rope (Okay, cable) You will not be able to get any reasonable speed at that distance. IDSL at 144k is a possibility.

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Im about 15090 feet
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Post by Crimson »

im 19200ft

pings are good
downloads are crappy
i hit upload cap (128)
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I beleive there are some distance charts at DSLReports.com. They show what speed can be obtaied at what distance.

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I was at 15200...

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Hey... Verizon just extended their distance to 18000 feet. Is that a good thing? Umm....
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18,500 feet is the barrier for obtaining dsl however the possibility of connecting on a remote terminal via fiber optics may be an option for you. Think it over and go with cable in the time being.
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Post by YeOldeStonecat »

Some ISP's let you get DSL up to 22,500 feet....but most were 17,500 feet for ease of troubeshooting and support....22,500 feet has some huge demands on top quality lines and equipment all inbetween...and we all know the local phone companies have all that going one (yah riiiight).

I'm hearing rumors about our local phone company not offering DSL anymore to peep past 14,000 feet...heh.

I'm at 12,300.
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7843 ft :D I can see the tower from my house :D :D :D
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I've read some reviews of people getting 640K/128K D/U ADSL at that distance from Covad. Not really sure if your ILEC will service your loop at that distance though.
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I am at 15,000 feet on Bellsouth Fast Access I connect at 1472 and 256 as long as the weather is not a worm drownder then I connect at high 12,000's to high 13,000's hope this helps.
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You're pretty far from the CO. Is that what the telephone company says you are in wire feet?

Verizon will run a line out to 18k feet on a clean line. As well as Bell South (since I have no idea where you're from). You might not get full speed, but hey, it beats dial-up.
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Post by the_mp3_refuge »

13300 feet from my CO with a 1Mbit/1Mbit connection running just fine, I think 1.5Mbit/128KB service from say earthlink would do just fine at your location.

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