No, it's not a 'service' issue - it is a technology issue. DSL is based on 'we can keep it clean enough for a few blocks. Hmm... A lot of people are in that few blocks... Hmm...'
I still get weird thinking of the wire in my hand touching another wire, and another and another, etc till it gets wherever... my own 2000 mile piece of copper just for me. Sort of 'primitive amazing' - pre-mux of any sort technology. Anyway, that is what the world is wired for. One of their guys just told me PacBell installed 12,000 DSL lines in January and they are going to install 1,000,000 this year. And that is not just 'here is your modem and NIC, sir'. That is climbing poles and snipping floaters and whatever other 'defered maintainance' needs to be done to get the line's utilization down... DSL is good for several movies to be downloaded at the same time.. I don't see a fiber re-wire. I see the phone company has figured out their whole world of audio fits in a small sliver the bandwidth people want/need today and they may lose the farm... Did you know the Bell companies had DSL for years, invented when 'audio-video' was the big thing, TV's in the front of the classroom, etc? 300-1200 baud modems were all the Bell's 'let' you attach to 'their' network and they had DSL sitting in a drawer... The 'last mile' is a hot place today. .
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No, it's not a 'service' issue - it is a technology issue. DSL is based on 'we can keep it clean enough for a few blocks. Hmm... A lot of people are in that few blocks... Hmm...'
I still get weird thinking of the wire in my hand touching another wire, and another and another, etc till it gets wherever... my own 2000 mile piece of copper just for me. Sort of 'primitive amazing' - pre-mux of any sort technology. Anyway, that is what the world is wired for. One of their guys just told me PacBell installed 12,000 DSL lines in January and they are going to install 1,000,000 this year. And that is not just 'here is your modem and NIC, sir'. That is climbing poles and snipping floaters and whatever other 'defered maintainance' needs to be done to get the line's utilization down... DSL is good for several movies to be downloaded at the same time.. I don't see a fiber re-wire. I see the phone company has figured out their whole world of audio fits in a small sliver the bandwidth people want/need today and they may lose the farm... Did you know the Bell companies had DSL for years, invented when 'audio-video' was the big thing, TV's in the front of the classroom, etc? 300-1200 baud modems were all the Bell's 'let' you attach to 'their' network and they had DSL sitting in a drawer... The 'last mile' is a hot place today. .