-=> Quoting Tom Walker to Andy Ball <=-

 ->   PS> Around here, getting a DSL line has been the norm for anybody
 ->     > who wants an Internet connection for at least the last two
 ->     > years, and most others have switched their modem or ISDN setup
 ->     > to DSL...
 
 -> Like many people in world, I live in a place (not far from Chicago, Illinois,
 -> USA) where neither ISDN or DSL is available.  :-(

 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. 

A local Fido sysop worked for the phone company back then and did some
checking to see *why* I didn't qualify.


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