AT&T being good to their DSL customers?

[RudeCurve]

I just got a letter from ATT notifying existing DSL customers that they'll be upgrading all 768Kbps and 1.5Mbps service contracts to 3Mbps without increasing monthy prices. They are also increasing the monthly bandwidth cap from 150GB to 250GB.

I currently pay $38/month for the 3Mbps service so I will not benefit from any speed increases but they also had some special promotions during this transition period. I was able to upgrade my 3Mbps service to 12Mbps and for the first year will only need to pay $25/month...after that I will pay $48/month which is only $10 more than what I currently pay for a measely 3Mbps. Can't wait to download X360 game demos in 1/4th the time. Streaming content from X360 will also be a lot better. Also now I could watch HD 1080p Youtube videos without having to wait for it to buffer.

Anyway it's been awhile since we talked about broadband prices here on the forum so what are other forum members paying for internet service in your area and what is your speed and cap?:smile:

I'm located in Fullerton/Anaheim, CA btw.

 

[Pressure]

Wow, welcome to The Third World!

Luckily bandwidth caps are non-existant in the good ol' Denmark (probably rest of Europe as well) where we mostly have flat-rate prices. 111Mbit/11Mbit is $56 a month here, 50Mbit/5Mbit is $46 and 30Mbit/3Mbit is $36.

Those who can get fiber are paying even less than that per Mbit. Like 100Mbit/100Mbit is $36.

 

[pcchen]

My service was 10M/2M before, but my ISP upgraded it to 12M/3M (to all customers of their 10M/2M service). The total price, including internet connection, a landline phone (which I don't really use), and an IPTV service (I don't watch it very often either), is about NT$1,200, roughly US$40 a month.

They said that I can upgrade it to 50M/5M with NT$100/month more, but I don't feel it's going to improve my internet connection that much (because what matters most to me is actually the pipe to the US and other part of the world). Also, there is no data cap here.

 

[Blazkowicz]

isn't 1Mb the max DSL upload? I have 15M/1M, or 16M/1M, anyway the provider provides you with your line's maximum capacity. no caps, and no caring about my always-on, 100KB/s torrenting (well I turn it off when I have to do some upload).

not sure how you would get 11/11, unless they give SDSL away?, or 50/5 if you're not using cable.


waiting for fiber, but the modem/dhcp/router/useless NAS box has a fiber NIC in it already.
36 euros per month which is not cheap - with the new box and offer they upped the price from 30 a month. the landline, actually VoIP phone can call mobile phones without billing me though and I now have with them a 0€/month cell phone plan (1 hour voice, 3€ per over-billed hour, no data).

included also is an Atom set top box with PowerVR GPU that serves for IPTV etc. duties (even gaming). 2 euros per month if you want to use it, but there's no VGA connector. so it's collecting dust. how ridiculous of a waste .

 

[cal_guy]

1 Megabit is the effective limit for Adsl2+ (the annex M specifications can go beyond this but it's more trouble than it's worth) however VDSL and VDSL2 are capable of much higher uploads.

 

[Rangers]

Wow, welcome to The Third World!

Luckily bandwidth caps are non-existant in the good ol' Denmark (probably rest of Europe as well) where we mostly have flat-rate prices. 111Mbit/11Mbit is $56 a month here, 50Mbit/5Mbit is $46 and 30Mbit/3Mbit is $36.

Those who can get fiber are paying even less than that per Mbit. Like 100Mbit/100Mbit is $36.

Internet is always so amazing in Europe until we discuss Onlive in the gaming forum. Then everybody says it's horrible and they cant even get 1mbps.

I still cant believe Europe doesn't even have LTE.

You can read how bad UK internet is here http://forum.beyond3d.com/showpost.php?p=1495147&postcount=518 and EU here http://forum.beyond3d.com/showpost.php?p=1495200&postcount=521

 

[Pressure]

Internet is always so amazing in Europe until we discuss Onlive in the gaming forum. Then everybody says it's horrible and they cant even get 1mbps.

I still cant believe Europe doesn't even have LTE.

You can read how bad UK internet is here http://forum.beyond3d.com/showpost.php?p=1495147&postcount=518 and EU here http://forum.beyond3d.com/showpost.php?p=1495200&postcount=521

We have LTE in Denmark, it's just that Europe don't use the same bandwidth spectrum as the USA, like everything else

Well, then it must be a problem with OnLive servers or something? I can easily pull down in excess of 40Mbit/s on 4G LTE and 35Mbit/s on my silly VDSL2 connection.

 

[Grall]

1 Megabit is the effective limit for Adsl2+ (the annex M specifications can go beyond this but it's more trouble than it's worth)

Hurm, must be your crummy american flavor of ADSL2+ then , I've had ~2Mbit/s upstream for years, but got detuned to a less aggressive profile a while ago to try and deal with some intermittent connection stability issues which never really got resolved by that - it just seems to have gone away on its own - so I'm thinking of having me put me back up to the old setting. I had more downstream bandwith with that profile as well, which helps with big Steam downloads and such.

 

[Zaphod]

There are many reasons for Annex M not being widely adopted. Among them:

- Regulatory issues in various countries.
- Incompatibilities with existing user hardware (analog filters and modems)
- Not worth the upgrade for existing ADSL/ADSL2+ infrastructure

Thus, as far as I know, it was mostly deployed by providers who were aggressively rolling out new DSLAMs in the time period before VDSL2 became available.

 

[Blazkowicz]

maybe those high profile ADSL2+ and VDSL2 are good if you live very near the telecommunications equipment, but useless after about one kilometer. I'm pretty sure after some distance you're back to ADSL2+ speed then ADSL 1.

so, they could have put VDSL2 equipment just for me. but the french way is to give everyone the same thing, first it was ADSL1 then ADSL2+.. if the landline permits it. we're used to things such as, the electric power rates are the same over all the territory, price doesn't vary by region or area.

fiber will give me 100Mbits upload which is 50 times faster than tweaking the ADSL2+ for select clients. in the meantime I've just figured out I can store a backup drive at home so I can back up some other place which has great upload bandwith .