I live in rural Peyton, Colorado. Up until now, we've been stuck on 12m/896k VDSL2+ for the last year and a half. I've been terrorizing CenturyLink every few months to see if there is anything they can do about the abysmal upload speed. I run my own domain that the entire family uses. Since moving (from a house that had fiber to the home and nearly unlimited speed packages), I've been struggling to keep the same level-of-service for all the services my family uses.
The last technician who came out walked the line and stated due to overall distance, attenuation, SNR, retrains, etc... that we were lucky to even be getting the 12mb/s down. He said the 896k was so much lower because the DSL modem simply does not have the juice to push a clean signal all the way back to the DSLAM.
He recommended I convince CTL to allow me to move to a business account and get a 'bonded pair' setup. He said I will have to switch out to a business DSL modem that would accept both lines (MLPPP?).
I finally got ahold of a fairly competent sales rep who was happy to set me up. He said that I could basically pair as many lines as I wanted together for a speed equal to my current rate * n (n being how many lines I went with).
I was skeptical. I have no idea how many lines are run to the average house (from the street), but I was only counting on the four wires (2 pair). He said "trust me, there are many wires run to the house for possible future services). He told me they were $29 per line, and that I would have to run a DSL modem for each. He also said he was not sure what the technician was talking about, as he didn't know of a way to actually "bond" the lines. He simply said that each line with have to be aggregated via a load-balaning route (eg: TP-LINK TL-R470T+).
I said sure. Sign me up for four lines. They are coming out Monday.
So I called the technician, who knows his stuff. He said that I will have at least three pairs going to the house, may six. He said he could run new lines easy, then have them bury them a few days later. No biggie. However, he questioned why I would do four separate lines when since they were allowing me to use business services, why would I not go with an "MOE Circuit". He had never actually set one up before (though he did help another technician do something he called "line conditioning"), so he wasn't sure what all it would do. He did say that is basically required 8 DSL pairs, and a box installed inside the house. He also believed I would get 40 up / 40 down. He had no idea about pricing, so I said I would research it (which means coming here).
Before I call and ask the sales folks what the heck an MOE is (the only thing I can find online is "Metropolitan Optical Ethernet"), is this even possible in a residential neighborhood with a single DSLAM?
I'm definitely enterprise networking savvy, but I know very little with it comes to telcos and how DSL-type stuff works.
Thanks in advance!
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