Oh yeah, I remember installing these things for COVAD - they were replacing the netopia terminals at the time. I think they did both T1 and SDSL - the neat part is, for the T-Span models, you can wire two of them back to back, and have about a 5kft range on wire.

For what its worth, I skipped over the T1 route and went with business class cable very early on, it'll perform better than the home cable (business class usually gets their own nodes, so they're more lightly loaded with an SLA) - and the cost is minimal, I have a 400/20 circuit from Spectrum for about 200 a month, including 16 routed IP's.

Just chiming in: awesome read! I really love your dedication to get into this beautiful beast.

Up until your post I pretty much had forgotten about T1,T2, Tx lines and how much I wanted one back in the day.

I did not understand why you had to get a different cable line for Netflix etc.? The speed of the like couldn’t have been an issue?

Wow, I hadn't seen your blog before but you've got amazing content on there!

It's really nice that people know how to do things like this AND share the knowledge. Thanks, and we're all looking forward to chapter 2 on this one!