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| FTTN is perfectly acceptable to me @heat84 - There's no technical reason why DSL has to deliver uneven (asynchronous) speeds. The main reason that telcos limit the uplink speed is to discourage business use of the bandwidth (hosting a website, etc). Cablecos provide more uplink as a marketing ploy but then try to block business type traffic (such as the email port 25). Cable has also been more vocal and active about limiting bandwidth to people who use a lot of it. I like the ability to burst when necessary, but I generally also like to get what I pay for, so I'm conflicted about the policy approach of the two services.
@article - I really do wish at&t would provide higher upload speeds. I'm getting just under a meg; I don't need 15 up, but 2-3 would be nice for uploading things to work.
I'm very impressed with at&t's FTTN and FTTH strategy. I read an article last year about at&t and Verizon's deployment. The Verizon rep claimed that their cost to install a new customer was something like $650 compared to at&t's cost of $550 (don't remember the exact numbers but they were about $100 different). I though it was complete bunk at the time and wondered how in the world Verizon could do a FTTH run for anything under $1000. Now with Verizon's $6 billion (BILLION!) write-down for build-out costs in just one year, it's clear that number last year was complete garbage. Fiber is definitely the future, but I 100% agree with at&t's interim strategy. At the rate people are choosing FIOS, Verizon will either have to raise their install or monthly charges or go broke(r).
Telcos and cablecos are in a land grab and undercutting themselves. In the short term I like paying ~$100 for triple play, but in the long-run they are going to need a government bail-out just like the baby bells in the early 90's and I think that ends up costing taxpayers more than if the companies would charge a reasonable price to begin with. In the after-math whoever wins gets to charge more than reasonable amounts because they have so much debt and then a new technology/service comes along and the whole vicious cycle starts all over again.
@percosan - Have them come out and check the number of loopbacks. There's a good chance that there's more than one in your line if you can't get more than 1.5 Mbps and there's not anything wrong with your internal wiring.
@conspiracy theorists - I guess dropping all that acid in the 60's wasn't consequence free, now was it? If you are going to censure a company for collusion with the government to neglect your rights, you probably should just stop spending money. It's a case of not seeing the forest for the trees. | |
| Honestly, 6/1, 18/1, or my current 6/.5, I really do not care. They all have way too slow UL speeds. How about they reverse it for me and give me 1/18 on a static IP? Then my server would not complain soo much. | |
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