[lug] DSL Availability

[Viggy]

The third CO is indeed on the north end of town.  It's actually in
Gunbarrel (right on 63rd Ave; between Spine and Gunbarrel Roads).

I used to live in the apartments right across 63rd from the CO; a friend
lived in the apartments behind mine.  He has DSL now; and I could not
get it, due to the fact that the *all* the phone lines in Habitat
Apartments are multiplexed.  I finally pinned them (USWest) down on
this; when I kept saying that I was going to cancel my second phone
line, if I could get DSL.  The technician told me that this wouldn't
help, because my primary phone was probably multiplexed with my
neighbor's phone...

Now, I live in Longmont, and can't get USWest to check my line for DSL
capability because I'm about 10 feet over the limit!  And what funny, I
called Covad, and they said that they (Covad) don't even have equipment
in the Longmont CO.  I told the lady on the phone that I figured that
the CO was old; because USWest was adding/upgrading the switch in the
CO.  The lady at Covad actually burst out laughing!  Says a lot about
USWest....

Viggy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us [mailto:lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us]On
> Behalf Of Archer Sully
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jeremy Hinegardner" <jjh at tranquility.net>
> 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I would like to know about the availability of DSL/xDSL in  
> > the Boulder area.  I'm moving to Boulder this summer and   
> > would like to make sure I find a place that is DSL capable.
> 
> There are two major CO's that I know of in Boulder, one downtown
> on Walnut & 15th? 16th?  And the other in S. Boulder near
> Table Mesa Dr. and Broadway.  There might be a third in 
> far N. Boulder, but I don't know about it.   Between these
> two most of Boulder is covered.
> 
> If you end up anywhere near Downtown, or Martin Acres or
> Table Mesa, you should have no problem.  I'm about as from 
> from the CO as you can get in TM, and I regularly hit speeds 
> in excess of 600Mb on downloads.
> 
> Unfortunately, your landlord won't be able to tell you much.
> The problem is that USWorst doesn't do an actual line check.
> Instead, they have a database of phone numbers that gets updated
> every couple of months.  If you don't have a number yet, or if
> you had a mux on your line (two numbers on one pair) the database
> will be unable to tell whether you can use DSL or not.
> 
> I found out that I could get DSL only because a lineman told me
> that I was easily within range.  It then took three months to 
> convince USWorst that they could go ahead and install DSL.
> 
> -- archer