| They don't need 50 Mbps Right now ATM AT&T doesn't need to do 50 or 100 Mbps, there really isn't a need for 99.9% of customers.
All they need to offer is a solid 25 Mbps with a decent upload. This 1.5 Mbps on there Max 18 is really starting to feel slowwwww.
If they did 25 Mbps down and 5 Mbps up they would have no problem for the next year. |
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 HKM
join:2008-12-31
Fort Lauderdale, FL | said by dlewis23:ATM AT&T doesn't need to do 50 or 100 Mbps, there really isn't a need for 99.9% of customers. Thats beacuse they can't even if they tried and their life depended on it. But where are you even getting this statistics from? beacuse you have no use for it does not give you the right to speak for anyone but yourself.
Now what I do agree with you is that they do need a decent upstream rate that is not so pathetic as 512kbps and in some developed area 768kbps. I mean this is 2009 for gods sake if you can't provide it then GTFO and make room for someone who can. We really need to take away the power from these Corp and to start it we need to removed dimwit lobbyists who side with these fools to keep us down.
I am perfectly happy with 6mbps downstream as I don't even have use for that but however if they had tier for higher upstream lol I would pay for it and get it. Its seems that most folks who is satisfied and angry with AT&T all share something similar which is they all agree that AT&T should increase their upstream on highest tier. |
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| said by HKM:Thats beacuse they can't even if they tried and their life depended on it. But where are you even getting this statistics from? beacuse you have no use for it does not give you the right to speak for anyone but yourself. I wasn't speaking for everyone I said 99.9% not 100%. And just to let you know I would fall in that 0.1%. I would fall in the 0.0001% of people who would actually have use for a 1000 Mbps connection.
Just to let you know most people don't even use the 18 Mbps to its full extent. The tech who installed my uverse was came out to fix a problem I was having about 2 weeks ago, and he told me out of all the Uverse installs he has done over the past 8 months that I am still the only customer the really uses and actually needs the 18 Mbps that he has seen. Everyone else has just gotten it because they can. |
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
kudos:1 | reply to dlewis23
said by dlewis23:ATM AT&T doesn't need to do 50 or 100 Mbps, there really isn't a need for 99.9% of customers. All they need to offer is a solid 25 Mbps with a decent upload. This 1.5 Mbps on there Max 18 is really starting to feel slowwwww. If they did 25 Mbps down and 5 Mbps up they would have no problem for the next year. People can burst to 50mbps. Multiple users in a house. 2 people turn on a HD VOD or DRMed Video download/instant on cached, or multimedia off newsgroups, or file download services, or pumping WUs (MS uses Akamai network and it can pump very high), or open source projects AKA "linux ISOs" AKA piracy through newsgroups, 1 click hosting or private BT trackers all of which can max out your connection for some minutes. |
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HKM
join:2008-12-31
Fort Lauderdale, FL | reply to dlewis23
Well, I can't say about your net usage as you can only shed light on that. But I could speculate that you would be using your bandwidth on newsgroup (UseNET, iRN), P2P (Torrent, ED2K), web service (rapidshare, megaupload, ect).
I don't disagree with you that most people don't even use18mbps hell hey don't even use 6mbps, they just get it for bragging rights and when they do use it then its for few moments they want the best it can offer. But however like you I do fall in that category of high extreme bandwidth usage but only for upstream, for me downstream is irrelevant and over 6mbps I have no usage as I don't even use 6mbps.
Unless I am cURLing a web site and putting its whole content taken as snapshot open to public I don't have no use for 6mbps even but however I would like faster upstream. Now for you even with U-Verse are you not bound by TOS/AUP of 150GB/month total accumulative bandwidth usage? is it enforced?
At this moment my bandwidth quota on my fServ says compared to few months as posted below:
Traffic: 2.813TB Tx/115.57MB Rx
UL: 25522.58/DL: 1 Ratio
said by HKM (2009-03-18) :
Download: 10-15GB/month (1.1-1.3 line capacity)
Upload: 127-129GB/month (97-98% line capacity)
This is my average bandwidth usage quota per month as it been the case for past 3+ years unchanged. While my download is low the upload is high by anyones standard on residential line. As I don't download much but I do upload alot.
So far my fServ stats are below:
Traffic: 2.383TB Tx/115.57MB Rx
UL: 21621.15/DL: 1 Ratio
PS: Yes thats TB as in terabyte the binary prefix.
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| The 150GB caps are only active in a few select areas (Reno and Beaumont, assuming the latter even has U-Verse available, which is highly unlikely). |
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