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jca2050Premium
join:2002-02-04
Hacienda Heights, CA Reviews:
 ·Verizon FiOS
1 edit | U-Verse Still, AT&T probably figures that their current speeds are more than adequate for the majority of customers for several years. The company is working on 30-40% faster speeds at greater loop lengths with bonded VDSL, but it's looking like that won't be available until late 2009. Keep your eyes peeled on our U-Verse forum for user experiences (specifically TV crowding and distance) with the new faster tier when it becomes available next week.
Why do they keep trying to cling onto a dying technology? In late 2009 FiOS customers will probably be on a 50mbps/50mbps (if not 100/100) tier for $60/month. I'm assuming by then the Comcast 50mbps tier will drop to a similar price. Meanwhile U-Verse is only going to be able to offer something like 20-25mb/3mbps (at most) and this is for customers that are close enough to their CO. This is all with a lousy usage cap. It's a good thing U-Verse isn't competing directly with FiOS or I guarantee they would already be deploying FTTH to keep up, because right now there is no comparison.
They need to bite the bullet and stop trying to prolong the inevitable, which is FTTH deployment.
In a year or two, DSL will be like the new dial-up. | |
|  | | jca2050Premium
join:2002-02-04
Hacienda Heights, CA | Re: U-Verse It is in a lot of areas if you compare it to FiOS  | |
| | |  FBGuyyippee ki yayPremium
join:2005-03-19 | Re: U-Verse you ever used dsl in rural areas? its pathetic | |
| | | | aureth
join:2003-09-03
Mchenry, IL | Re: U-Verse Yup. 2 miles outside of a rural Iowa town on a pretty lousy 1.5/768k link. frozen connections, high ping times, slow dns lookups, dropped packets, all sorts of fun things. I count myself lucky, though...it's either this or satellite.
Moving back to my home state of Illinois next week to a more populated region...looks like Comcast will be my choice, there. AT&T can't even figure out if they can get DSL to my house, and certainly not U-Verse. | |
| | | | | FBGuyyippee ki yayPremium
join:2005-03-19 Reviews:
 ·Comcast
 ·T-Mobile US
·AT&T U-Verse
| Re: U-Verse said by aureth:frozen connections, high ping times, slow dns lookups, dropped packets, all sorts of fun things. I count myself lucky, though...it's either this or satellite. this is exactly what I'm talking about.
as far as the dsl or satellite comment goes, i've used everything but FTTH and satellite is by far not the bottom of the list. if its installed correctly you can get awesome service. mind you its never meant for gaming, voip or anything where high latency is a problem. | |
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| | | jca2050Premium
join:2002-02-04
Hacienda Heights, CA Reviews:
·Verizon FiOS
1 edit | said by FBGuy:you ever used dsl in rural areas? its pathetic Fortunately only when I went to visit my parents at their previous residence, they lived way in the sticks but were still able to get Verizon DSL 3mbps/768k which wasn't that bad for DSL. I have heard horror stories though of people force into getting something like 1.5mbps/384k for the same price I pay for 20mbps/20mbps. | |
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