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In article <4aq3m1$9jb@shado.jaguNET.com>,
Jim Jagielski <jim@jaguNET.com> wrote:
>This is all my opinion... take it or leave it.
>
>I think it's unfair to blame Digex for the fact that the SLCs can't carry
>the full bandwidth of a 28.8k modem. The specifications and particulars
>of those circuits are beyond Digex's control and instead fall into the grand
>monopoly of Bell Atlantic.

Thanks ;-)

>However, you could blame Digex for using this technique to handle remote
>calling areas.

Your understanding of our situation is not clear - we are not using 
this to avoid putting in POPs - we are being FORCED to use this as the
way that BA gets 2000 dialtones into the building that we are in.  Other
dialup providers will hit this wall if they grow to the point where they
need to have that many lines in a single place, and there is not enough
copper to handle it, and they are using POTS (plain old telephone service)
lines.  Every single phone line into our facility here uses this technology
from BA, even the voice lines and dialups that are served out of the Central
Office about 500 yards away.

>So the limitations of the SLCs are beyond Digex's control, and you can't
>blame them for that. You can, if you like, blame them for using a method
>that makes the limitations of the SLCs _their_ limitation as well. You
>could also reasonable blame them for not investigating different options
>as well.

Like I said, this is something that effects every line - not an 
artifact of us trying to not have pops.

Doug