[Info-vax] US Broadband

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <md7cqe$ugs$1 at speranza.aioe.org>,
	glen herrmannsfeldt <gah at ugcs.caltech.edu> writes:
> Scott Dorsey <kludge at panix.com> wrote:
> 
> (snip)
> 
>> Right.  The PUC has jurisdiction over the T-1 circuit that goes from you to
>> your ISP, only.  Negotiating the internet service is between you and the ISP.
> 
> Yes, but as I understand it, not all telcos will lease such pairs.

Can't lease what doesn't exist.  Laws of physics are always getting
in the way.

> 
> It used to be that they were commonly used for burglar alarms (maybe
> still) and that you could ask for one of those. 

I never heard of any residence having a leased line for their burglar
alarm.  They work on your regular phone line (and that is yet another
story!!!)  I used a number of leased lines at the University when I
first came in to do the campus network to connect buildings that we
could not run our own cabling to because of obstructions like state
highways.  :-)  I really doubt anyone could afford that, or justify
the cost, for a residential connection.

> 
> Well, the case that I was interested in some years ago was where I would
> use both ends of, say, a T1 link.  Maybe home to work, or something like
> that.

I actually experimented with LOS radio between my home and the University
20 or so years ago.  At that time it worked, but was very slow.  But fun
to experiment when you have interests in both computers and radios.

> 
> As I understood it (again, some years ago) the school district could do
> that to link schools to the central office, sometimes chaining through
> schools to get there.  That was an upgrade from ISDN that they were
> previously running.

Of course they could.  They didn't have to pay for it.  You did.  Another
example of wasting money that should have been used for education.

bill

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