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RE: 10 Mbit/s problem in your network


From: Nathan Anderson <nathana () fsr com>
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 20:23:33 -0800

On Tuesday, February 26, 2013 7:58 PM, Owen DeLong <mailto:owen () delong com> wrote:

In fact, many of the hotels that have solved this intelligently have
simply 
placed DSLAMs in the phone room and run DSL to each room with
a relatively inexpensive (especially when you buy 500 of them at a time)
DSL modem in each room.

...or more likely (at least in my own probably limited experience), a CMTS and cable modems instead of a DSLAM and DSL 
modems.  Probably because so many of these hotels have an existing digital PBX system that drives all the phones in the 
rooms which isn't going to take very kindly to sharing its copper with a DSLAM, and because they already have coax run 
throughout the place to drive the televisions.  Easier to share the existing coax with a CMTS than it is to stretch a 
bunch of new telephone wire dedicated just to DSL; I mean, at that point, you might as well just pull some Ethernet.

-- 
Nathan Anderson
First Step Internet, LLC
nathana () fsr com


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