heh.
i meant the bandwidth to play on the web, not the bandwidth for the site
i almost had uverse but I'm 1000 extra feet from the box with 90% capacity. better luck later, I guess
-J
What a bummer, so I guess AT&T doesn't have ADSL out where you are either? The problem with UVerse is not the fact that it's DSL, but the fact that VDSL is fairly new technology which AT&T is using to power UVerse. You get very nice speeds when you're close to the box, but as soon as you break 1,000 feet of that box in wire, the speeds slow down rapidly, hence why you've probably seen lots of those boxes called VRADS or DSLAMs around a lot in UVerse areas. VDSL2 I heard was supposed to fix this, but that's in testing I think. I have Verizon DSL here running at 7.1Mbps on the download, upload is 1.5Mbps tested (got that tweaked) and they are saying I'm going to be able to start expecting FiOS rollout soon where I am. Slowest I'll get from FiOS is 10Mbps/2Mbps and the fastest right now is 50Mbps/20Mbps, maybe higher if cable with DOCSIS 3.0 gets competitive. If you have ever visited a site called Broadband Reports or DSL Reports (both sites are the same place, just different names), a lot of people in the news comments and in the AT&T forum have thought it'd be best for AT&T despite their large territory compared to Verizon and the other guys to do FTTH/FTTP (Fiber to the Home/Fiber to the Premesis) like Verizon is rolling out instead of using VDSL. Yeah it's a bit expensive to install ONTs, fairly cheap to lay the cabling but in the long run it pays off and gives you more room to grow than DSL could possibly ever offer. Cable, yes while it does grow, is still limited by the cable plant. Most cable plants are around 800MHz in transmission range, some are 1GHz plants though, but those are not common at all.
But if cable is out where you are, don't they have cable internet there?
EDIT: btw, if that VRAD/DSLAM that AT&T has does ADSL as well besides just UVerse, ADSL can go up to 18,000ft of wire for 768k/128k service stabally, and with ADSL2+ can go a couple hundred to a thousand or so feet farther in wire for 768k service. Of course there are a lot of things to factor in if you want to PM me about that, I can explain it to you.
