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You can think of the internet connection consisting of two parts: 1. The copper from your home to the exchange. 2. Everything from the exchange to the rest of
by rahimnathwani 5y ago
You can think of the internet connection consisting of two parts:
1. The copper from your home to the exchange.
2. Everything from the exchange to the rest of the internet.
LLU meant that we had options for #2. Not all providers were the same. Some had better networks, better peering with other networks etc. than others. Or they had more infrastructure per customer.
However, #1 was also a bottleneck. Where I live (in San Francisco) all the available copper pairs are in such a state that ADSL will only get me something like 3MBit/s at the best of times. And there's no way to get that copper upgraded. So whether I order ADSL from AT&T or Sonic, the connection will be bad.*
Perhaps your situation was similar?
* Thankfully both Monkey Brains and Xfinity have good service at the same address.
- smilespray 5y agoYep, very similar. It was the same when I lived in LA in the early 2000s, but that was at the beginning of DSL rollout, so I'm going to cut Verizon et al a nanometre of slack.
- rootusrootus 5y ago> 1. The copper from your home to the exchange. > 2. Everything from the exchange to the rest of the internet. Also, 1A - the equipment at each end of the copper. The CLEC owned the CPE and the DSLAM, the only thing which is the same for any provider would be the copper itself. Source: Worked at a CLEC for more than a decade.
- fmajid 5y agoAnd Sonic has its own fiber in the Sunset.