Shutting down big downloaders

[reiella]

Originally Posted by evo_dadi

lol i used to live closer to the city so i can understand the slowness but when i moved to a more rural area where supposedly AT&T is already laying down fiberoptic i started to wonder how it will affect my current service.

Well, FTTH is a different service than I'm familar with. I believe, though, it shouldn't affect you too much with DSL. It's a seperate service. Now, they should prolly be improving their hub connections but well, their infrastructure situation there may warrant other solutions.

One thing that can get missed, with rural areas, while you are prolly sharing with less people, ya gotta remember there's "less to share" with those fewer people.

[MrBogey]

Originally Posted by evo_dadi

not sure how AT&T limits dsl but i have the elite package and there are times that my connection tends to slow down.hell even at night time when traffic is supposed to be lighter i get a slow connection.

AT&T applys no caps on DSL usage.

[MrBogey]

Originally Posted by evo_dadi

lol i used to live closer to the city so i can understand the slowness but when i moved to a more rural area where supposedly AT&T is already laying down fiberoptic i started to wonder how it will affect my current service.

DSL is a topologically isolated service from the node to the end-user. The fiber is usually meant to give the node a better backhaul to the network. Usually it means faster pings and better responsiveness. But overall 4 bonded copper T-1s are just as fast at giving 3Mb/s as a DS-3 backed node as is a GigE fiber backed node.