sounds good to me. can save you some bucks right there

thank you

must be competing against comcast....

6MBs? That's it?

Pathetic for a FIBER connection. FIOS puts this to shame.

they offered me this a couple of months ago. Defy better than 1.5 MB down, but I won't go back to Time Warner, their service is lousy and customer service is a joke! Plus, they want $55/month for their i-net only package, but ATT is just $30/month.

ymarker said:Color me red but, I'd get fiber in a heart beat if available but even cable is at 15MB/s currently. I had ATT guys come out and they couldn't figure out how to get the wire into the house without wrapping it all around the house. I told them to pack it and leave. They had two van full of techs who had worked on the field for decades and didn't know how / care to do it right. Not that cable is any better, but atleast they'll work with you. ATT still is being stubborn and not learning it's lesson from fios by going FTH.

Go ahead color me. Make my day

Hate to burst your bubble, but the average website throughput is about 300kbps, so you'll most likely never achieve 15mbps any time soon. Plus, with cable, you are sharing that 15mbps with everyone in your neighborhood. With DSL, you get that 6mbps all to yourself. You should be looking at the upload speeds instead for less latency. AT&T only blocks outbound port 25, but will unblock it upon request. Most cable companies are crazy about blocking ports, and they don't care if you don't like it. I'm not a big fan of AT&T either, but once you get it installed and working, there are some advantages over cable.

6mbs has got to be a mistake. I'm currently getting 6mbs with my At&t DSL elite package ( not the fiber/uverse). The AT&T rep told me uverse was 12mb and wasn't in my area yet. 6 ain't nuthing special.

tulsastorm said:
Hate to burst your bubble, but the average website throughput is about 300kbps, so you'll most likely never achieve 15mbps any time soon. Plus, with cable, you are sharing that 15mbps with everyone in your neighborhood. With DSL, you get that 6mbps all to yourself. You should be looking at the upload speeds instead for less latency. AT&T only blocks outbound port 25, but will unblock it upon request. Most cable companies are crazy about blocking ports, and they don't care if you don't like it. I'm not a big fan of AT&T either, but once you get it installed and working, there are some advantages over cable.

You can hit 6Mbps+ easily if you're doing p2p or other heavy download.
With cable, you are not sharing 15Mbps with your neighborhood, the 15Mbps or whatever your plan allowed is your cap. The cable bandwidth can be up to 50Mbps which is your neighborhood are sharing.

With DSL, you get your dedicated bandwidth, however, the actual bandwidth achievable on DSL depending on your distance from Central Office or Access Multiplexer and subjected to your line condition. My friend has a 1.5Mbps DSL plan but the most he can get and tested by the technician is only 800k.

I switched from Comcast (7mbit) to uVerse (3mbit) in Chicago. Uverse was much faster browsing the web. The ping times were much, much lower, not to mention the upstream was fantastic, 1mbit.