[Gllug] Home grown DSL

[Kieran Barry]

On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, William Palfreman wrote:

> 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 was very interested in this, at least as an idea.

> 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 :-)
> 
Right. Anyone else live around sunny Southall?

How many people would be needed before a leased line is competitive with
cable/ADSL?

Regards

Kieran


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