[SATLUG] Wifi (Bandera County)

[Ed]

David Power wrote:
>>>>> ------- Original Message -------
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>> >From    : Geoff wrote:
>>>> Is there such a thing as high-speed access to the
>>>> internet in Bandera, *other* than via satellite?
>>>> ---------------------------------------------
>>>> Yes, depending on your definition of high-speed.
>>>> There's wireless dsl @ about 1.5 ~ 2.3 kbs from
>>>> Indian Creek      730-796-7788
>>>> Internet America  800-232-4335t
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> Is this a typo?  A modem can do 56 kbs.
>>>
>>>   -- Bruce
>>>
>>>       
>> I don't think so...  DSL (digital subscriber link) can handle transit
>> packets of 64Kb/channel.  As a DSL line (usually one B and one D
>> channel) can transit 64Mb/sec, and an ADSL (asynchronous) can handle
>> multiple B channels at once via multiplexing, and 1.5 - 3.2 megabits
>> without much difficulty.  However, full through-put depends on the
>> number of users accessing the line/node at a given moment.  Usually,
>> ADSL packages are 128Mb/sec (2B, 1D channels), and via multiplexing, can
>> transit the low end of the DSL spectrum (1.5Mb) fairly easily...  And,
>> they don't use a "modem," the use a "terminal adapter..."
>>
>> Cheers;
>>
>> Ed
>>     
> That sounds more like ISDN rather than dsl.
>
> David
>   
Wanna take a read through Mike Meyers' Network+ Certification Passport? 
I think you might be a bit surprised... My former employer used 64Mb DSL 
until they discovered, painfully, that one size did not fit nor carry 
all, and 128Mb wasn't much better (any better than MCI support... <sigh>)...

Cheers;

Ed