[Gllug] Home grown DSL

[Tim Gray]

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Here Harry, don't you work for the competition ;)

AFAIK DSL will only work at short distances <5Km I think. So its only really
practical over your local exchange.

I don't think BT charge any exchange rate for a 'dry pair' (ie. a copper wire,
no power, no repeaters). I'm guessing they may offer repeaters for
inter-exchange stuff but don't quote me. Still could be very handy if you want
to set up a MAN/NAN. £66 per month with your own T1 (or what ever) equipment
between offices.......

Tim


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jackson, Harry" <HJackson at colt-telecom.com>
To: <gllug at linux.co.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 10:08
Subject: RE: [Gllug] Home grown DSL


I would be very interested in it but are you going to get access to the
exchange. BT are not allowing very many people in and out of exchanges at
the moment. Are you sure that there are no call charges after it.  Do they
charge anything for space at the exchange and how much do you get I also
think that BT would be very cautious about letting in anyone off the street.
This would be a very good idea and worth investing in.

Harry

> -----Original Message-----
> From: William Palfreman [mailto:william at palfreman.com]
> Sent: 27 August 2001 13:57
> To: gllug at linux.co.uk
> Subject: [Gllug] Home grown DSL
>
>
> Did anyone else see the Robert X Cringely article about DIY DSL links?
> (http://www/pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20010823.html)  I'm
> up for this.
> I checked with BT and they rent out copper pairs at £33 per
> month, and £58
> per month beyond your local exchange.  Add a pair of DSL
> modems ($300) at
> either end, and that's 2Mbits full-duplex!  I'd rather spend a few
> weekends laying fibre segments between one person and another
> than I would
> pay BT extortionate inter-exchange rate, but, well, that's an option,
> isn't it?  Those parts would do 100Mbits. (Whoor!)  Anyone else
> interested?  Think how good those WAN skills would look on your CV :-)
>
> -Bill.
>
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> W. Palfreman.
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