From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 8 19: 5:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mgw1.MEIway.com (mgw1.meiway.com [212.73.210.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10AEC37B401 for ; Sat, 8 Sep 2001 19:05:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.Go2France.com (ms1.meiway.com [212.73.210.73]) by mgw1.MEIway.com (Postfix Relay Hub) with ESMTP id 6EED616B1C for ; Sun, 9 Sep 2001 04:05:37 +0200 (CEST) Received: from IBM-HIRXKN66F0W.Go2France.com [66.64.14.18] by mail.Go2France.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.06) id A0FCDFDA0058; Sun, 09 Sep 2001 04:16:28 +0200 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20010908205818.02de4358@mail.Go2France.com> X-Sender: LConrad@Go2France.com@mail.Go2France.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2001 21:05:19 -0500 To: Freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Len Conrad Subject: Re: OT - ADSL standards question In-Reply-To: <01K84QFEJ7C0001J83@internode.on.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >Is there a place on the net that has details on standards that relate to >the distance that you can be froma the telephone exchange to get ADSL? http://www.paradyne.com/sourcebook_offer/ ... is an excellent reference for xDSL. >I've seen it mentioned here that that distance is 18,000 feet (which is >equal to 6 kilometres). A friend's company is trying to get an ADSL >and they are 5.4kms from the exchange. 18,000 feet is wire feet, not bird flight. The longer the wire, the lower the throughput as the signal poops out. >Every Australian's favourite >phone compnay, Telstra, is saying the maximum distances is 4.2kms so ADSL >is a no go > (though rumour has it that they are using French made equipment >that's not really upto scratch) Alacatel is the big French equipment mfr. Their ADSL modems work pretty well, for 100īs of 1000īs users. Len http://MenAndMice.com/DNS-training http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com : ISC BIND 8.2.4 for NT4 & W2K http://IMGate.MEIway.com : Build free, hi-perf, anti-abuse mail gateways To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message