Re: [TCLUG:20045] DSL

[Adam Maloney <adamm@sihope.com>]

You can call and whine, and if enough people do they may accelerate it.
Other than that there's nothing you can really do.  Are you sure the
problem is that there's no DSLAM in Fridley?  FAIK there's a lot of fiber
right to the doorsteps out there that's preventing people from getting
DSL.

Adam Maloney
Systems Administrator
Sihope Communications

On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Troy A. Johnson wrote:

> Can you do or say anything to get USWest to put the proper equipment for
> DSL at your CO (mine is Fridley)?
> 
> Adam Maloney wrote:
> > 
> > In case anyone here was interested in getting DSL but couldn't loop qual
> > (even if you were within the proper distance) [US|Q]west began removing
> > load coils from lines in late June.  They expect to be done by Q1 2001.
> > Unfortunately the site with the list of where they are completed isn't
> > available so i don't have any more information, but you may want to try
> > another loop qualification in the coming months.
> > 
> > Also here are the latest CO's that now support DSL:
> > 
> > MN:  Duluth Melrose, Richfield, Stillwater
> > 
> > Adam Maloney
> > Systems Administrator
> > Sihope Communications
> > 
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> are extreme aberrants with lifelong histories of crime, substance
> abuse, psychopathology, mental retardation and/or irrational violence
> against those around them, as well as other hazardous behavior, e.g.,
> automobile and gun accidents."
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