[lug] DSL Availability

[Chip Atkinson]

I actually am living in the Habitat appartments and got DSL just fine.
Perhaps the situation changed.  I did have two lines and then cancelled
one because I got DSL.

Chip

On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Viggy wrote:

> 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
> 
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