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<blockquote data-quote="_CY_" data-source="post: 2693224" data-attributes="member: 7629"><p>certainly not disagreeing with your premise of adopting IP DSL vs existing legacy ATM DSL. but that takes a considerable $$$$ investment by AT&T for IP DSL ... it's not exactly a secret AT&T wants to drop support for copper lines entirely in favor of wireless/fiber. </p><p></p><p>unless customer service rep for AT&T I spoke to a few weeks ago is wrong .. plans are to drop DSL entirely sometime in the near future. fact is copper based DSL is capable of supporting up to 9 mb already with no telling what improvements coming down the pike. </p><p></p><p>currently getting 2mb down/400k up ..which is plenty fast for my needs. streaming video only needs a modest 150k or so bandwidth .. most times when a video stream slows down it's not the line's limitations .. more likely throttling and/or bottle neck for that particular traffic path or whatever ... NOT my lowly 2mb downstream limitations. </p><p></p><p>as for reliability during multiple extended downtimes like ice storms in Tulsa that power was down for 2 1/2 weeks, 1 week, 4 days, etc, etc. my DSL/pots never went down the entire time power was out vs cable and fiber at my buddies houses were down for almost the entire time power was out for the city.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="_CY_, post: 2693224, member: 7629"] certainly not disagreeing with your premise of adopting IP DSL vs existing legacy ATM DSL. but that takes a considerable $$$$ investment by AT&T for IP DSL ... it's not exactly a secret AT&T wants to drop support for copper lines entirely in favor of wireless/fiber. unless customer service rep for AT&T I spoke to a few weeks ago is wrong .. plans are to drop DSL entirely sometime in the near future. fact is copper based DSL is capable of supporting up to 9 mb already with no telling what improvements coming down the pike. currently getting 2mb down/400k up ..which is plenty fast for my needs. streaming video only needs a modest 150k or so bandwidth .. most times when a video stream slows down it's not the line's limitations .. more likely throttling and/or bottle neck for that particular traffic path or whatever ... NOT my lowly 2mb downstream limitations. as for reliability during multiple extended downtimes like ice storms in Tulsa that power was down for 2 1/2 weeks, 1 week, 4 days, etc, etc. my DSL/pots never went down the entire time power was out vs cable and fiber at my buddies houses were down for almost the entire time power was out for the city. [/QUOTE]
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