DSL Hardware for Wiring Condos?

Posted by Cliff on Thursday May 1, 2003 @08:10AM from the broadband-to-your-yuppie-haven dept.

Condo-Netwerk asks: "I'm trying to prepare a proposal for my condo building to be our own DSL provider. With 160 units, we should be able to get a T1 and keep the price fairly low. But what's the up-front cost? Which hardware should we use? What do we need to know about Copper Mountain, Avidia, etc. to do our due diligence prior to selecting hardware? I'm also helping a friend spec cabling for a new 30-unit condo building he's putting up; he wants to pull cat5 and split a DSL line from the phone room to each unit. Caveats? Experiences? Is it better to use cat6 or fiber?"

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Re:Why DSL? by robi2106 · 2003-05-01 11:29 · Score: 0, Troll

Someone could easily move in and start whoring out your fat pipe for spam.

Make sure TOS eliminate all server services. Serriously though, if a techie wanted to live their and host a web/ssh/ or whatever server, then charge them extra. Otherwise, eliminate almost all incomming traffic.

That is just plain easier, safer, an egalitarian.

robi