Re: Microsoft offering xDSL access

[Greg Simpson <gws () sweet 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