(OK, I warned you I’d be griping about my DSL install.) So, as I previously reported, my loop is 16,900 feet. That’s within the 18,000 maximum which most people talk about for ADSL. But Covad apparently won’t do over 15,000. That’s better than PacBell’s 12,000, but doesn’t do me any good. Since I have to go through the technically-challenged ISP customer support people, I have to plead and wait for a direct answer about whether Covad has actually tested my line and found it unsatisfactory, or if they just looked at the 16,900 number, did the arithmetic, and said “no way”. All I’ve gotten so far is typical bureaucratic ambiguity. Soon, I may have to make the IDSL or stay-with-56K decision, and go back to calling AT&T;@Home every couple weeks.