[TriLUG] Looking for ISP Options to a specific region

[Neil L. Little]

Thats called a bridged-DSL or ADSL2 or concatenated.

73,
Neil, WA4AZL
JARS Forever!!
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David Black wrote:
> Here's a question I think is relevant to the thread, but if not, I apologize - and any informative replies off-list would be appreciated:
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> I'm fortunate enough to have a fast Time-Warner cable connection and am hoping to move into Embarq DSL-land (no cable) within a few months.   Nicer house, less connectivity options.
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> The dry pair option is familiar, as are the line rate limits out of the DSLAM for folks "in the boonies", as I would be.
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> Has anyone heard of Embarq bonding several DSL circuits together to make a bigger pipe?
> I can send packets round-robin to multiply the uplink speed, and if possible would also want Embarq to round-robin the downlink, e.g. four could net 6 down/1.5 up.
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> Having worked in the ISP world for a while, I know it's not difficult to do on most provider-side aggregation mux boxes - e.g. bonded T1s, so don't see a *technical* reason why they couldn't similarly bond together several DSL circuits.  It's the provisioning and maintenance of the configuration they may not to deal with.
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> Dave
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> ----- "Neil L. Little" <nllittle at embarqmail.com> wrote:
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>   
>> I got my DSL line with embarq separately (a-la-carte). At the time it
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>> was around $25 (before federal taxes). The service is attached to my 
>> existing twisted-pair number.
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