[14776] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Microsoft offering xDSL access
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Simpson)
Fri Jan 23 17:04:53 1998
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 16:40:18 -0500 (EST)
From: Greg Simpson <gws@sweet.com>
To: "Robert E. Seastrom" <rs@bifrost.seastrom.com>
cc: geoffw@precipice.v-site.net, faust@grift.com, wb8foz@nrk.com,
jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199801232116.QAA12530@bifrost.seastrom.com>
What are you talking about? There is a distinction between CP modem and
CO modem, but.. if you happen to have one of each, it should work.
Ever try it?
-greg
> No it was absurd because my friend just wanted to run two adsl "modems"
> between his office and home on copper. He was told that to do that he
> needed to connect to PacBell's ATM backbone, that's whats absurd.
>
> two ADSL modems will not talk to each other back to back on a piece of
> wire. If you want to fire up dry-copper connectivity between yourself
> and a friend you want some sort of HDSL product; look at the Campus
> line at http://www.pairgain.com/ovr_prd.htm
>
> ---Rob
>
