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 maartenaElmoPremium
join:2002-05-10
Orange, CA
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 ·AT&T U-Verse
 ·DIRECTV
| They can't offer high speeds... My cable provider (RoadRunner) offers me 10 meg down and 1 meg up for $49.95 (normally $54.95, but I get a $5 discount for having digital cable with them as well), and the rumor is that they will soon increase that to 15/2 to compete with FIOS in the region.... (unfortunately I am AT&T, just outside Verizon territory)
No matter how you look at it, DSL copper isn't going to give you any higher speeds then about 1 Mbps upload due to technology restrictions, and since they are trying to cram 2 HD channels on the same copper pairs, chances are the download speeds aren't going to be higher either.
For now, I have 0 interest and 0 confidence in U-Verse at the moment. I am planning on buying a HDTV next month, and I already got the HD-DVR from Time Warner, and I am going to record 2 HD streams at once plenty of times to record from the main network HD channels, PLUS watching regular TV in my office.
It makes economical sense to run copper instead of fiber (at least for now, the price of copper is on the rise - see the copper thieves that steal cables) and in most cases it's already there anyways.... but the future demands fiber. At least for the telco one-on-one type connections, the cable companies are good for the next 10 years with a last mile of copper like they do now. But they will eventually need to move to fiber also if all current channels will move to HD in the next 10, 15 years or so.
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 ·RoadRunner Cable
| VSDL with U-verse is already 10 megabits down and 1.5 megabits up, for $55/month. So to say it's "not going to get higher than 1 Mbps upload" is not valid.
20/2 would be no problem at all for the current AT&T VDSL implementation. Even at maximum distance, VDSL is synching at 25 megabits/second (I personally get a 57 megabit synch) However, AT&T does not offer a provisioning profile for Internet-only VDSL. They arbitrarily cap it at 10/1.5. There have been reports in the field of people who accidentally get an uncapped profile and get well over 20 megabits download.
They will eventually go to VDSL2 and get faster, even over copper.
That said... 10/1 for $50 from TWC is a pretty good deal, even better if they go 15/2.
I am a former Road Runner customer myself. I switched to AT&T ADSL originally because RR did not provide a clean enough pipe for VoIP (too many dropped packets and latency jitter). AT&T DSL has been perfect for me. | |
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