lordfly
join:2000-10-12
Homestead, FL
 ·AT&T Southeast
|  Tinkerbell? New Service?
I am waiting for an insider tip on this one. Supposedly it might be a DSL like service at the cost of Dial-Up. Of course, this might just another tier of DSL to get users off of Dial-Up service.
If you have info, please post, otherwise I will try to post something once I find out the real info.
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clecrupt9
join:2002-01-22
GA
2 edits | I heard some buzz over it too. I doubt its going to be DSL, or what most of you here classify, as DSL speeds.
From a business perspective, Bellsouth would like to get people off dial-up and into higher cost services. But until official announcement is made, its all speculation. |
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logic1977
Premium
join:2001-02-11
Tucker, GA | reply to lordfly
This ought to be good. |
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NetFixer
Freedom is NOT Free
Premium
join:2004-06-24
Murfreesboro, TN
·AT&T Southeast
 ·Vonage
 ·Cingular Wireless
·AT&T CallVantage
| reply to lordfly
BellSouth TinkerBell |
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psitool
Beware ManBearPig
Premium
join:2002-11-28
Albany, Ga | That's a great coincidence.  |
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RJ44
join:2001-10-19
Nashville, TN | reply to lordfly
Let's all wish really really hard! |
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IhatemyISP
MM2 Corbski
Premium
join:2003-01-27
Japan
·Sprint Mobile Broa..
| reply to lordfly
From what I'm told by a rep friend of mine, it's a service that's in trials right now.
He's said it's dial-up speed, at dialup cost, that is "boostable" to DSL like speeds for a certain time.
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formerbsdsltech
@comcast.n
| reply to lordfly
It is a 56Kbps DSL connection which also offers the user the opportunity to "boost" their speed to DSL Xtreme speeds for 1 hour. In the trial run, users will be able to get 5 speed boosts per month with the option to purchase additional boosts for $5 each. The trial is being ran in South FL. |
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ObdH
Premium
join:2003-06-11 | reply to lordfly
I'm trying to understand why...I mean for $9 more a month you can have full out 1.5/384..
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IhatemyISP
MM2 Corbski
Premium
join:2003-01-27
Japan
·Sprint Mobile Broa..
| said by ObdH  :
I'm trying to understand why...I mean for $9 more a month you can have full out 1.5/384..
Not from BellSouth you can't 
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Bellbubbalou
Premium
join:2002-04-26
30079-1027
| reply to ObdH
said by ObdH :
I'm trying to understand why...I mean for $9 more a month you can have full out 1.5/384..
For the avid followers of this forum, it probably IS difficult to understand. But there are plenty of "the unclean" out there who merely want email access & want to save the $9 
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rjackson
Premium,Mod
join:2002-04-02
Ringgold, GA
clubs: | reply to lordfly
How is the "boosting" done? Do you have to resync your modem to get the higher speed? Or do they sync you higher and then throttle you down to 56k? |
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IhatemyISP
MM2 Corbski
Premium
join:2003-01-27
Japan
·Sprint Mobile Broa..
| said by rjackson :
How is the "boosting" done? Do you have to resync your modem to get the higher speed? Or do they sync you higher and then throttle you down to 56k?
I'm guessing it's synced high, but throttled.
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logic1977
Premium
join:2001-02-11
Tucker, GA
| said by IhatemyISP :
said by rjackson :
How is the "boosting" done? Do you have to resync your modem to get the higher speed? Or do they sync you higher and then throttle you down to 56k?
I'm guessing it's synced high, but throttled.
Doing it by resyncing wouldn't make much sense. |
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Mike G
@bellsouth.ne
|  The real reason behind this is to implement this "bandwidth on demand" concept across the entire spectrum, i.e. those of us with 3Mbps Extreme will be able to "throttle up" to 8Mbps in the not to distance future. Google ADSL2 and ADSL+ and Bellsouth and you find some info |
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DSLDUDE
Got The Folding Farm Itch
Premium
join:2002-01-07
Norcross, GA
clubs: 
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It would be very easy to throttle a connection like that. Even if you re-sync the modem to accomplish that. The only problem would stand in how to make it "user" friendly.
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Claybraker
join:2002-04-13
none
| said by DSLDUDE :
The only problem would stand in how to make it "user" friendly.
Or idiot proof. Which is tough, because the idiots are pretty creative.
On the upside, it could be a good opportunity to streamline the installation software, which is horrible. It started life as a fat baby, became morbidly obese, and is now elligible for an appearance on "Jerry Springer" via remote, as it's too bloated to get off the sofa and make it out of it's trailer without someone taking out a wall.
It'd be much less confusing to the target market this product is aimed at to keep it simple with the USB drivers, a link to the Westell (or 2Wire) GUI, and then push everything down to them once they're connected. |
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Splitpair
Premium
join:2000-07-29
Cow Towne
·T-Mobile US
| reply to logic1977
said by logic1977 :
Doing it by resyncing wouldn't make much sense.
Reprovisioning a DSLAM port each time wouldn't either. Then there tariffs.
Splitpair
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burris
Premium
join:2000-08-22
Miami, FL
·VOIPo
·AT&T Southeast
·ViaTalk
| said by Splitpair :
said by logic1977 :
Doing it by resyncing wouldn't make much sense.
Reprovisioning a DSLAM port each time wouldn't either. Then there tariffs.
Splitpair
I think we are making too much out of tariffs.
A tariff is simply a set of prices that must be offered to anyone who meets the criterion.
For instance...if you offer .02 per minute for anyone who buys a 1000 minute package, then it must be offered to anyone who is willing to do the same. If you offer a re-seller price for DSL, then anyone who meets the specs on that offering qualifies.
Through the years, telco have on the fly, changed tariffs to meet the market demands of customers. If a meaningful customer wanted .01 per minute on a specific route, the tariff was changed to acomplish this. The problem is then that those that don't know about tariffs and who don't discover this, pay the old price.
A game at best. |
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TheEternalTroll
join:2000-12-01
Knoxville, TN | reply to lordfly
It would only make sense that this would be on a BBG circuit. The BBG topology allows the ISP to do different classes of service without making physical or datalink layer. |
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