without internet access for over a week. instead of suspending my acct. at&amp;t canceled it for late payment. i now have u-verse &quot;vdsl&quot; (???)

14 years ago

without internet access for over a week. instead of suspending my acct. at&t canceled it for late payment. i now have u-verse "vdsl" (???)

14 years ago

i get a year for $5 less than i was paying for dsl. but i had to buy a new modem. bummer. i'd just bught a new a few months ago.

14 years ago

supposedly it will be faster.

14 years ago

hmmm, never heard of vdsl but I am curious about it. Let me know if you notice a change in speed/connectivity.

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14 years ago

Att just announced they will be capping DSL usage to 150GB a month. u-verse at 250. Att sucks, but my only alternative is comcast. No way!

14 years ago

ah crap! i knew there was a catch.

14 years ago

they flat out cancelled your account?? wtf

14 years ago

i think it was their way of getting me to "upgrade". they said they're phasing out dsl.

14 years ago

you can think of VSDL as a higher bandwidth version of ADSL; you need a VDSL device to use it.

14 years ago

it's not backward compatible. Typically, VDSL can deliver about 5x the bandwidth of ADSL over the same copper pair

14 years ago

, of course, depending on how its deployed, your mileage may vary. Distance to the switch still a governing factor.

14 years ago

yup. i bought it. so far i'm not seeing the speed.

14 years ago

bandwidth testing is tricky. You need to know you have something on the other end that can overwhelm your connection.

14 years ago

I've latched on to a VSDL circuit; SL is just as slow as ever; however, I can get bursts over 30Mbps from things like Akamai.