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 ·Charter
1 edit | When is Atlanta gonna get real internet? Most major cities have fios. Here, the fastest home broadband speeds are 10 and 16, by Charter and Comcast, two of the worst rated cable companies.
We are a big city, when the hell are broadband providers like Verizon gonna pay attention to us and give us fios?
BTW, don't mention the joke that is Uverse and it's amazing 'VDSL at 10 megs'. I'd personally rather have fios at 50 megs or above.
Given that atlanta is ignored for the major broadband speeds, it may be a couple years before we get docsis 3.0 even  |
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 shdesignsPowered By Infinite Improbabilty DrivePremium
join:2000-12-01
Stone Mountain, GA | Heck, I finally was able to get more than 1500/256kbit 
Have had DSL for 10 years with no option to upgrade. Comcast is horrid in my neighborhood; went with DTV for reliability.
The AT&T buyout of Bellsouth does seem to have changed things. Withing a month, there are signs all over the neighborhood about how they are "upgrading the network".
I was lucky, my phone line crapped out. Some flaky connection in the cable. I was 9800' from the RT (and was an RT that did not support anything over 1.5mbit.)
They patched me over to the new hardware early. I'm now 3000' from the new RT 
I think part of the issue was ATL was one of the first implementers of ISDN. I was at some training for it back in the mid '80s. I think they spent a fortune on new equip for it and it never went anywhere. So they have all these neighborhoods with relatively new equipment that was never intended for DSL. Areas that did not have this had old stuff that needed replacing anyway for any DSL.
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 odogCable Centric Vendor BiasedPremium,VIP
join:2001-08-05
Atlanta, GA
kudos:9
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sounds like you have iftl. iftl was state of the art when it came out but wasn't widely adopted and the tech kind of dead-ended.
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i doubt we'll ever get fios, but you can look forward to docsis3.0 sooner rather than later as the cable companies look to compete with uverse. comcast is on much more aggressive schedule than charter, but i'm sure it will happen within 3 years. |
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said by Metatron2008:I'd personally rather have fios at 50 megs or above. What sites and/or applications do people use where the server on the other end can send data this fast and where this kind of speed is needed. Is it just for bragging rights? |
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join:2001-04-18
Douglasville, GA | reply to Metatron2008
I've got to say, if anything is faster, let it be the UPLOAD.
At this time, most websites or servers have a download cap, and you won't max out that 6mb download line speed. |
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·Charter
1 edit | Right now I have 10 megs dsl, directv premier with hddvr receiver, vonage voip service.
My htpc which uses my 40" samsung lcd and directv also uses Steam, and I have quite a few games. I also download from Directv on demand, and don't forget vonage.
It would be oh so nice to have more speed, esp. since I use it.
This list is a bit old...
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said by Metatron2008:it may be a couple years before we get docsis 3.0 even According to this story »Which Comcast Markets Will See DOCSIS 3.0 Upgrades? it may not be long before Atlanta Comcast users can get DOCSIS 3 at 50 Mbps but at $140/month I don't think they will have a lot of takers. |
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| If they came here with a 30-40 mBIT plan for $80-$100 I'd take it damnit  |
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 Iron ChefPremium
join:2001-05-28
Alpharetta, GA | reply to Metatron2008
UVerse ever going to happen here? |
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| said by Iron Chef:UVerse ever going to happen here? Actually Alpharetta is one of the places they are rolling it out. »www.uverseusers.com/component/op···,9970.0/ Not much deployment in the city of Atlanta yet. |
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Iron ChefPremium
join:2001-05-28
Alpharetta, GA | Nothing on my side of Alpharetta, west of 400 . |
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| said by Iron Chef:Nothing on my side of Alpharetta, west of 400 . It's coming Alton...have patience.
The deathstar has scheduling that leaves a bunch to be desired.
Anyway to the OP,
the phone co in Atlanta is ATT (above mentioned deathstar) and very rarely do phone companies overlap. Atlanta is not one of those places...so you will not see fios since it is a verizon product.
IFITL areas are going to start seeing fiber to the home long before anyone else does, but that doesn't mean those areas will see faster speeds before anyone else. Those who already have FTTH get the same speeds over Uverse as those who have copper lines.
So sadly you will have to move if you want fios. |
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 CanezoidEnd of line
join:2001-02-16
Powder Springs, GA
·Comcast
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Verizon is not the LEC of the SE region. They are the consortium of the Bell Atlantic region Telco's of the NE. That technology is avail in their exchange area's only, where deployment is taking place.
My BILaw in NJ has it, I was quite jealous. |
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When Atlanta's "last mile" starts covering more than 100 households at a time. Atlanta is one of the least dense metropolitan areas (JAX and Orange County are worse).
If you calculate the cost of upgrade/sqmi, Atlanta will ALWAYS be behind super dense areas or easy-to-wire areas like New Orleans, Miami and desert cities whose flat landscapes and lack of zoning overlaps make running cable real cheap. |
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