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Still only 6Mb..

But the advertised bandwidth speed of 6 Mbit/s in AT&T's most expensive U-verse package is still quite a bit off the 10 Mbit/s several cable companies are offering today on a best-effort basis.

No one is stopping you from getting cable. Comcast is very much there in SJ.

I have 6Mbps DSL at home and 1.2Mbps Sprint EVDO on the road. They both do the job.

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reply to danza
I love reading these posts. I worked at TWC San Antonio for 3 years, and for U-verse since inception. Lets be clear about DSL vs Cable. DSL is a dedicated connection from the DSLAM to you. With cable, you are sharing a the bandwidth from an entire cable node with every other person using it at that time. So, is 6M just for you as good as or better than a 7/10 M upper limit? The answer depends on the number of people on the node, and how much data theyre moving. Cable likes to to give you the upper limit for suckers who like big numbers, and dont look at the fine print.

What's the difference if a cable subs shares a "node"(which is the wrong device in the network that is shared per 'se, but uninformed people love to spit that out), versus a shared DSLAM? They are both shared by everyone in that neighbor hood. If that DSLAM is oversold, which more than likely are, then they will see slow downs as well. Neither service guarantees service, so no cable customer is any more a sucker than a DSL customer who have to read the same fine print of 'up to' X Mbps.

None of course.

I always found it amusing that PacBell/SBC ran those "webhog" ads, then pioneered the art of deploying RTs that share DSL at the neighborhood level.
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