Bell Sympatico offered me fast service

[Dave Germiquet]

Hugh,

If I remember correctly I think what the new one might be VDSL
(However I could be wrong)


On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 7:03 PM, Dave Germiquet <davegermiquet-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Hi Hugh,
>
> I have heard of this as well, however I have not gone into extensive
> questions. I live in an apartment  building and I got 2 dsl
> connections coming in.
>
> When I applied to my new provider, bell called me up and said "the
> line you have is different this one is a Fibre Optic line", I asked
> them ok install it on the condition they could keep both lines.. (i
> had customer service issues there :()
>
> I called my original provider they said there are problems with some
> providers and the new "DSL" line. The new DSL line is actually called
> something different.
>
> I googled a bit found a few links, here's one of them:
>
> http://en.kioskea.net/technologies/adsl.php3
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 6:17 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier <hugh-pmF8o41NoarQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> I got a form letter from Bell that starts:
>>
>>        Great news.  Our new, next generation fibre optic Internet
>>        service is now availaible in your neighbourhood.
>>
>> Since ADSL in my house has been crappy and slow, I just phoned them to
>> figure out what they meant by this.
>>
>> First they told me that they have fibre optic.  I asked where?  To my
>> demarc, they said.  Clearly this isn't true because they haven't been in
>> my basement.
>>
>> I played 20 questions with Nasar on the phone, ignoring obvious
>> mis-statements.
>>
>> - maybe there is fibre to a location closer than the Central Office
>>  was (the CO was about 5km, if I remember correctly, explaining
>>  my crappy service)
>>
>> - he told me that I could have 16000kb service (down, of course; 1mb
>>  up).  That is perhaps 10x what I have now (from another ADSL
>>  provider).  He agreed that it was 10 times what I would have had in
>>  the past.
>>
>> - he said that distance to the new CO-or-whatever was a secret and
>>  would not tell me
>>
>> - I asked about the modem (wondering if they have some new
>>  technology).  He said yes, but was really only talking about
>>  features like being a router and switch on top of being a modem.
>>  When pressed, he said it was same old ADSL.  2wire brand.
>>
>> Does anyone know what this is about?  Have Bell likely installed a
>> "remote" to cut the length of the copper run?  Or something else?  Or,
>> nothing (just an ad)?
>>
>> Oh, and what is "next generation" about this?
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> Dave Germiquet
>
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