Burnsville is not far out. Fridley is certainly not far out. Fridley is only 4 to 8 miles out from Downtown. Hell, DSL will extend 3 miles on its own. And I know Fridley has its own CO. The problem is the copper takes a winding road and much of the copper is substandard (AT&T really did not play fair when they installed it back then). Tom Veldhouse veldy at veldy.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Dyer-Bennet" <dd-b at dd-b.net> To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 1:23 AM Subject: Re: [TCLUG] DSL woes > Nate Straz <nate at techie.com> writes: > > > On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 06:37:55PM -0500, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > > > Scott Dier <dieman+tclug at ringworld.org> writes: > > > > Because you cant get DSL. Think of it, people all over the US cant get > > > > DSL nor Cable. > > > > > > They should consider moving to more civilized areas? I guess if you > > > want to live in the boonies you have to sacrifice some modern > > > conveniences. And live in your car. > > > > Do you consider Burnsville and Eagan the boonies? It's not a problem of > > only civilized areas getting DSL (or any broadband). It's a problem > > that there isn't any incentive for the telcom companies to roll out > > faster. > > Yes, those are definitely the boonies. > > Burnsville, for example, is something like half an hour south of me, > and I'm south of downtown; it's a *long* way out. > -- > David Dyer-Bennet / Welcome to the future! / dd-b at dd-b.net > SF: http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/ Minicon: http://www.mnstf.org/minicon/ > Photos: http://dd-b.lighthunters.net/ > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >