Patent ID: 8121029

Claim:
A method comprising: determining a full menu of features available for selection, wherein the features are based on digital subscriber link communications features that are to be provided via a customer premises equipment of a customer premises; transmitting test signals on a connection to the customer premises; receiving response signals on the connection; determining parameters for the connection based on an age, a length and a gauge size of a conductor of the connection and based on parameters of the response signals including signal integrity determined from a comparison of a shape of the response signals with a stored profile; determining a set of features offered by a provider that are supported by the connection to the customer premises based on the determined parameters; using a network server, eliminating selections from the full menu to generate a supported menu by providing only the set of features as selections, the set of features including less than the full menu of features available for selection so that at least one of the features is eliminated from the full menu; and presenting the supported menu to enable selection of any feature in the set of features.