DSL (was shopping for NOCs)

Got up this morning and now I have no dialtone AGAIN! DSL is still up and flakey. I lead a charmed life!

I've heard a couple of different reasons for the poor performance of residential DSL: 1. Other types of DSL running in your bundle of copper. (Say, you have aDSL for your home use, but the Telco uses PairGain's DSL to distribute their T1 services.) 2. A lot of the equipment is still WAY TOO NEW for Telco use. I'm sure there is a murder of training and traffic engineering issues that still need to be worked out... -brad (Rural CNE)