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What is the fastest speed that DSL connections are capable of?

There are a lot of variables to consider with answering this question.

Typical residential offerings now usually have a maximum of 6.0 Mbps. Keep in mind that you will not normally see 6.0 megabits in a speed test ... due to overhead. However, one of our members reports some enviable residential speeds in Korea: (Aug '08)

"I just came from Korea and I had 1Gbps download AND UPLOAD VDSL residential service for about $47 a month. You can get 2Mbps/512Kbps in Korea for $2 a month if you pay a $10 installation fee for the initial service. It is common to find 100/100Mbps in Seoul with usenet, 7 eMail accounts with attachments up to 1GB, and dedicated webpages for about $28 for month to month with no contract. On Korea's national Internet site, I see that there is residential service available for 20Gbps, but I never saw any advertisements for that and I doubt that service that fast would be available outside the capital."

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TDS offers a 15 meg pipe in Perry Michigan. It's 40 miles from any major city. We ordered the 15 meg line and they hooked it up at 18500 K.

2011-01-28 16:45:12

Fairpoint in Maine also has a 15 mbps offering

2011-03-02 13:15:08 (DasBoot )

I have 18.5 mbps down and 1mbps up from GWI in Biddeford where I live and it's really fast for 449.95/mo....no contract!!

2011-05-07 14:08:47

Cookeville TN. Soon to push VDSL with more b/w than any one person could use equal download and upload been watching the testing and its looking very good. Not for long cable runs but more for in town use. no cable provider can touch it.

2011-08-22 19:49:02 (gcopley81 )

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