[KLUG Members] What is behind this www.onspeed.com?

[Komal]

> > Today I read about www.onspeed.com site claiming to give broadband
speed
> > with their software. I wonder what is so unique about
www.onspeed.com.
>
> ?  What leads you to believe anything is different or unique?  The
make some
> bizarre marketting claims (all of which are ludicrous).
Unfortunately, at
> least in the USA, it is very difficult to sue a company for making a
> ridiculous
> claim.
>
> A modem using a POTS like can NEVER EVER achieve a real throughout
higher than
> 56k.  56k is the bandwidth of a single digitized channel in a trunk.
Call and
> ask the phone company if you don't believe me.  You can get 64k with
special
> provisioning - which you aren't going to get in your home.  DSL
hi-jacks your
> POTS wiring pair in a device called a DSLAM which bleeds of the
> signalling used
> to carry the ATM cells between the DSLAM and your DSL "modem"
*BEFORE*
> the pair
> is terminated into the POTS switch.    To do DSL you have to have a
DSLAM
> installed in the local switch house, or a contract with someone who
does
> (probably....... THE PHONE COMPANY!) in which case you probably ride
on the
> same trunk back to the central switching office as all the IP
traffic for all
> the other DSL providers,  and only there is it farmed out to the
various ISPs.
>
> So any stupid claim like "Dial Up - 5x Faster, Broadband DSL - 3x
> Faster" should
> be immediatly relagated to /dev/null.
>
> --
> Adam Tauno Williams - http://www.whitemice.org

Kudos to Guru Adam Tauno Williams! Really they are making bogus claim.
Talking with them on phone prove that they are just fooling people.

Regards,

Komal