ECN Forum Forums General Topics of the Trade General Discussion Area New T1 Line(s) today!!

One comment about DSL varieties... SDSL/HDSL is a symmetrical business-grade/must-run product, and priced accordingly. ADSL riding on dialtone is typically a "best effort" product—lower priced but with variable performance and lower repair priority.

Xanathar's listed "OC" rates are for fiber..."optical carrier(?)" [Hey everone...we've now got a real datacomm guy in the ranks!]

I've been real lucky to usually get 1.2Mbit/sec—0.14Mbit/sec home ADSL over a 15+k∙ft loop (although it took 'em seven months to get it right.)




[This message has been edited by Bjarney (edited 10-07-2003).]

Here's a link to some info on DSL from the main TelCo in the U.K., British Telecom.

It's still not yet available on the small CO which serves this area though.

Bill:

It is much quicker and I use a wireless AirCard connection at 115kbps, especially fast uploading to the image gallery.

Haven't been able to get onto Mike's site for a few hours?

Not on my crummy dial-up connection.

Bill,
This is GREAT news!.
I've definitely noticed pages loading a lot quicker, since logging in today.

Whoopee!
I very recently (after 5 years) changed from my dial up America Off Line account to a cable connection.
Now, with the T1 line on ECN, even the threads with multiple images load immediately. No more trips to the kitchen to refill the coffee cup while waiting.
Kind of like driving a VW all your life, and then getting into a Corvette. I love it! ...S

Glad to hear things are going quicker.
BTW, we had T1 lines already but they were nearing capacity a lot lately so more were added.


Bill

Xanathar:

Why is the T-2 line not used anymore? Was the difference between it and the T-1 or the T-3 negligible?

What's a DS0?

By the way Bill, what does the cable for a T-1 line look like? Is it a thick multi-conductor cable like the phone wires under the street or is it just a pair of bell wire like what is used for a regular one-line telephone?

[This message has been edited by SvenNYC (edited 10-09-2003).]

A DS0 is one POTS line - a single 64K channel, 24 of which can be multiplexed onto a single 2 or 4-wire 1.544 Mb/s DS1 (T1 or HDSL, HDSL2, or HDSL4). European E1s have 31 channels with a total bandwidth of 2.048Mb/s

Sometimes your "T1 line" is really HDSLx. Either way you get one DS1 (24 DS0s) at the end.