I have ATT Uverse Internet only. 18meg download....$55 a month. Their fastest is 24meg download for $65 a month. U-Verse is better than cable in this regard....It's like DSL, you are not sharing bandwith in the Neighborhood with others. The only bandwith you share is with yourself, if you have UVERSE TV and/or VOIP (I don't).
Doesn't Comcast have "power boost"? Do you know what that does? It increases your bandwidth briefly at the beginning of transfers. This means quick benchmarks that only send a couple megabytes to test will likely be influenced by this "power boost". However, sustained downloaded (torrents) will be less affected.
Yeah, the benchmark site I used was www.testmy.net, where the largest test file is 50mbs, so I'm not sure how much powerboost affected that. I'm certain my torrents don't hit max bandwidth for the most part, but I've seen it sustain 900KB-1300KB for um, large files.
I think it would be interesting to know how much everyone is paying for their high speed internet as well. I have AT&T DSL 6mb/s and I pay 35 per month.
50MB is probably greatly affected by the power boost. U-Verse is great for me. I paid for 12mbps, and my peaks on some torrents is... 12mbps. Cable was always unreliable in hitting its peaks. Torrents are not exactly great measures of that either, since it's variable based on your peers, but sometimes they can be (lots of peers, big file).
Err, actually, I thought the same thing until I looked it up. U-Verse is still a form of DSL: VDSL. If you're saying U-Verse is not ADSL, then yes, it's not. But it is still DSL.
For Comcast Blast I'm paying 30/mo with free modem rental for the first year, 40/mo + rental fee the 2nd year, and something ridiculous after that.
