MainframeX

bye bye

Will do ;)

generally people/companies use those line to not deal with QoS problems ever again

Yes, it's a good solution the mitigate line saturation but it's far from perfect on really slow dsl lines

Yep it's a DSLAM

They should've checked line saturation on your first call

Wow, the guys manning the helpdesk at Verizon must be really bad

baah, that would drive me nuts

Yep

Well after a while of searching for solutions to no avail, you'll simply stop to actively look for it.

Thanks for spreading it, i feel so lucky and privileged to have just stumbled on it

Don't worry, i'll pass it around with the other techs first thing in the morning.

i know ;)

Sometimes customers (ab)use these lines to set up VPN's and citrix sessions and the like and go completely nuts when somebody starts downloading something.

I will simply make a little testlab with our lowest tier dsl line

Of course

I work at an ISP and we regularly get these questions, to wich i did not have a sufficient answer, until i went in to this chat room. Thank you so much!

Yes sir

Interesting read, thanks guys!