DSL questions - Heads up Sprint guys....

[Chris Fowler]

Ah ION
Sprint's great idea that is well beyond their capabilities.
Seems the tech's can't get voice-over-ip to run consistently so they're just
about ready to scrap the whole thing. There was talk at one point of
switching to ATM. Anyway it's a great product offering if they can get the
damn thing to work. 2 IP's, 4 phone lines, 1000 minutes of LD for $150/mo.
SIGN ME UP!

-----Original Message-----
From: The Hoelschers [mailto:mohoel at bigfoot.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 7:42 AM
To: kclug at kclug.org
Subject: DSL questions - Heads up Sprint guys....

Well, I finally took the plunge and bought DSL.  Went with Telocity
since they don't require a year-long contract.  So far, I'm mildly
dissapointed.  The service has been solid, no complaints there, but
while I have "up to 1.5 M" service, I have never budged from 393, 048
BITS per second.  Something less than "screaming", wouldn't you say?

I find myself wondering if Southwester Bell has any means of
manipulating the service in order to drive business to themselves
directly as opposed to using the VAR's (yeah, call me a conspiracy
theorist!)

My main question is about Sprint ION.  According to their web page, it
only works with Windows and Mac.  Does anyone know if this is a "real"
restriction (i.e.: it won't work without the PC side software) or is it
just that Sprint has not seen the market for Unix/Linux based installs,
so they have not explored it yet?  (This was another reason I went
with Telocity - they weren't afraid of big, bad, Linux users!)

Also, since ION is advertising as "up to 8 M", is there any market data
available that would indicate Xbps on DSL = Ybps on ION?

Thanks  -
Chris H.