olasek
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Not sure I understand the business side of being a DSL "provider".
For example in my home (California) I am getting DSL bundled with my phone line and I pay AT&T a nominal monthly fee for that. Now, some other company (WDT out of Chicago) is telling me they can provide me with the DSL + digital stationary phone line + unlimited call in the US + some international calls, etc, etc, etc, and if my calculation is correct I think will be saving about $20 a month (but I will figure it out before committing). The problem is in accounting for all the local taxes hence my statement above "I think". My concern is the DSL bandwith I will be getting. Can my provider being out of Chicago affect (adversely) my DSL speed/availability or my speed is primarily controlled by my physical address, distance to nearest switches, in other words purely local hardware considerations that have nothing to do with the provider?
For example in my home (California) I am getting DSL bundled with my phone line and I pay AT&T a nominal monthly fee for that. Now, some other company (WDT out of Chicago) is telling me they can provide me with the DSL + digital stationary phone line + unlimited call in the US + some international calls, etc, etc, etc, and if my calculation is correct I think will be saving about $20 a month (but I will figure it out before committing). The problem is in accounting for all the local taxes hence my statement above "I think". My concern is the DSL bandwith I will be getting. Can my provider being out of Chicago affect (adversely) my DSL speed/availability or my speed is primarily controlled by my physical address, distance to nearest switches, in other words purely local hardware considerations that have nothing to do with the provider?
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