->  TW> AS it is constituded in most of the United States Everyone living
->  TW> more then 18,000 FEET away from their Central Office Switching Station
->  TW> cannot get DSL. 

-> Also, that's *cable* feet. Way back when I lived all of 4 blocks from
-> the CO. But I couldn't get ISDN because the cable trunks happened to
-> follow major streets and then branch off. With the result that my
-> phone line went around 3 1/2 sides of a square. 

 That is correct. The 18,000 Foot limit is "Copper Length", NOT as
the Crow Flies.
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