 Review by HKM 
UPDATED: 145 days ago
member for 313 days, 154 visits, last login: 48 days ago
 Fort Lauderdale,Broward,FL
 $42 per month
 AT&T
 "Stable dependable connection."
 "Unacceptable 512Kbps maximum upstream by today's standards."
 "Inferior infrastructure unable to support the need of current consumers. Thus slowing down development for future innovation."
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UPDATE: So where am I? same place where I was when I wrote this. So much for useless U-Verse maybe by 2019 ill see it when everyone is rocking true fiber and Death Star is still trying to patch the chicken wire copper to milk it for everything its worth.
Other than reliable connection for service uptime AT&T/BellSouth offers nothing special for the price the tier being advertised. Don't forget AT&T's low priority in developing and deploying fiber based transit to meet the need of current consumers as their static modem stuck in 2000.
If AT&T does establish CAP in residential ADSL circuit then ill just totally drop all my service with them and move on another company most likely Comcast. Now I have had ADSL service from late 2002 with BellSouth and now AT&T and so far they done nothing to improve or upgrade the upstream other than increase useless downstream.
Now I have 6/month's promotional offer from AT&T which gives me 2 x ($10.00) discount on my current bill. Which brings it to $22/month for 6 months from $42. When the promotional offer is over I am most likely to cancel my ADSL-HSI and move on Comcast-HSI as even they offer 1-3mbps upstream.
PS: Don't even bring U-verse BS here as its useless and won't see it till 2012. Also it doesn't even come close to Verizon's FiOS or Comcast's DOCSIS. AT&T's will soon find itself in deep water as more and more user just switch to their competitors as they refuse to upgrade to their POS U-verse which is doomed to begin with.
Followup comments:  CplEstesUSMC
join:2005-02-16
Douglasville, GA
 ·AT&T Southeast
| DOCSIS 3.0 vs U-Verse I understand your frustration, I live in Apt Complex where the fiber terminates to my DSLAM about 50 yards where I'm sitting right now and I'm synced at 8000k and 512k up. There are a lot of financial/technical hybrids that are in love with milking as much out of this copper infrastructure which is only delaying the inevitable. Like Alexander Gramm Bell’s technology, copper had a good run and it’s time to recycle it.
However, I disagree with your comparison to U-Verse (VDSL2) vs DOCSIS (3.0) it’s going to be close but not decisive. The fundamental flaw with DOCSIS is CSMA-CD, the shared architecture, and most cable company’s lack of distance infrastructure. The faster you clock a CSMA-CD link, you lose proportionally more throughput due to the back-off timers and the listen timers. While yes were going to see hudge advertised link speeds with DOCSIS 3.0 you’re on average limited to 70% of that link and that is if you’re the ONLY person on that link. So take your 300 meg bonded channel connection, take 70% of it (210) and share that with a couple hundred neighbors. Where as VDSL, yes you loose bandwidth as your distance increases from the DSLAM, but you’re going to stay around 100 megs just for you. Then you take away CSMA-CD and all of the backoff timers and jitter from that type of link, and you have a low latency reliable connection. The Cable companies are just going to lure you in with big numbers and hope you don't use it.
But none of this helps you right now, ADSL (original spec) is the new dial-up and it’s quite pathetic that many customers are still limited to it. I was in the military for a while so I can tell you first hand that writing your congressman can work. I’ve seen direct, decisive action taken after a letter was written to a congressman, and write the FCC as well. In my opinion the FCC should be limited to managing the radio spectrum and if someone runs copper/fiber lines, that’s their property and it shouldn’t be taxed. | |
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