Community webserver?
Tony Hammitt
thammitt at kc.rr.com
Thu Apr 20 18:09:15 CDT 2000
OK, so I'm in an area where SWBell has said that they will not be
offering DSL because they will not be running a T3 to the local
office. Are you saying that all I have to do is claim that I'm
a business (true) and they _have_ to upgrade their local office?
I don't really understand.
If something like this were the case, I'm already all set up with
equipment, dual pIII box, 10/100 switch, battery backup, tape
backup... I just don't want to have to pay $2000/mo for a T1.
SWBell told me to go to hell when I asked about DSL. I'm confused.
TIA,
Tony
Dave Parker wrote:
>
> Not strange at all. The biggest problem I think would be TPC
> (The Phone Company). If you're in a Southwestern Bell area then
> you'd probably be better off contacting Birch, BUT - the FCC has
> 'directed' the ILECs (Incumbent Local Exchange Carriers) to make
> DSL available to competitive '...providers of high speed Internet
> access and other data services.' This can even be an analog voice
> line where the low freq portion carries the voice traffic and is
> administered by the ILEC, and the high frequency portion of the
> same wire pair can carry the high speed xDSL traffic and be
> leased from the ILEC by a local ISP and re-sold to you. I think
> that if you could demonstrate that you were a business (license,
> tax-id, bus. cards, etc.), that there's not much they could say
> to anyone wanting to get DSL, put a server in their closet, and
> host websites. In fact, this would be the perfect setup for
> the KCLUG, where the organization could share the costs and
> members could have accounts (not dialup, necessarily) and/or
> websites/pages and host collaborative projects.
>
> This is an intriguing idea. I have DSL now (272K SDSL) in an
> area where the ILEC does not offer the service, but is expected
> to soon. I'd be very interested in something like this, and could
> even host it, but I'm really busy with other projects right now
> and it would take me a while to get it all set up. I'm definitely
> interested in talking about this, though.
>
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