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Re: Yet another reason SBC sucks
said by jimbo2150  :I am getting rather fed up with SBC (ATT). Now the local cable company has a 10mb/s tier for the same price as SBC's 6mb/s tier! Rediculous! How about some actual competition? I have to wait almost another year to switch over though, since I just had to renew for another year with SBC. My SBC/ATT ratings are dropping fast. Thats why I am not going to go with their DSL plans.
1) I am at 12k ft of the CO. The best speeds I am EVER going to get at that distance is about 8 Mbps down, 1 Mbps up. Even ADSL2+ or VDSL2+ or whatever it is these days isn't going to give me any good speeds at 12k ft. You have to be under 10k ft for any of the good stuff. And they aren't going to be dropping fiber in my back yard any time soon.... DSL is still based on your analog phone line, and therefore copper all the way from your local CO to your house.
2) DOCSIS 2.0 (the current cable standard) and even DOCSIS 1.1 is already capable of delivering 10 down, 1 up to every home, regardless of the distance. Optimum Online has done it for years now (10/1), and even the cable TRIALS back in 1996/97 before the technology broke through was already 10 Mbps down. And given the fact there are cable companies that offer 15/2 to compete with FIOS, and some companies are introducing DOCSIS 2 based connections of 30 or even 50 Mbps.... And given the fact that 90% of today's Cable networks are already "fiber to the street" or "fiber to the block", I know that cable can deliver.
In short: TV-Cable and Fiber have the future. DSL only has future if it involves fiber between the CO and somewhere really close to your house.
I only get 5 Mbps down and 384 up with TWC at the moment, and the only thing faster then that is paying $10 more for a 6 Mbps down, 608 up connection. Which my neighbor has, and he has to reset his modem every few days because of the 12k distance. No thanks.
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