said by JigglyWiggly:u verse is a downgrade since your ping rises substantially compared to adsl2+
U-verse Internet is often ADSL2+. I have ADSL2+ (but not U-verse Internet). I am on interleaved, but my latency isn't bad:
Tracing route to %Friend%.dyn-dns.net [75.35.yy.zz]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 <1 ms <1 ms 1 ms homeportal [192.168.42.1]
2 25 ms 25 ms 26 ms 173-228-7-1.dsl.static.sonic.net [173.228.7.1]
3 25 ms 25 ms 24 ms gig1-4.cr1.lsatca11.sonic.net [70.36.243.13]
4 25 ms 24 ms 33 ms 0.xe-5-1-0.gw.pao1.sonic.net [69.12.211.1]
5 25 ms 25 ms 25 ms 0.xe-6-1-0.gw2.200p-sf.sonic.net [64.142.0.109]
6 26 ms 26 ms 26 ms as0.gw.200p-sf.sonic.net [208.106.96.249]
7 26 ms 26 ms 26 ms xe-10-1-0.bar2.SanFrancisco1.Level3.net [4.53.134.9]
8 28 ms 25 ms 26 ms ae-6-6.ebr2.SanJose1.Level3.net [4.69.140.154]
9 26 ms 27 ms 26 ms ae-82-82.csw3.SanJose1.Level3.net [4.69.153.26]
10 35 ms 25 ms 26 ms ae-3-80.edge2.SanJose1.Level3.net [4.69.152.143]
11 43 ms 32 ms 28 ms 192.205.32.209
12 33 ms 30 ms 30 ms cr1.sffca.ip.att.net [12.122.114.6]
13 29 ms 30 ms 30 ms 12.123.155.117
14 32 ms 30 ms 33 ms 12.122.114.25
15 * * * Request timed out.
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30 * * * Request timed out.
Trace complete.