[GRLUG] AT&T's U-verse DSL service

[Brad Becker]

Running a web server favors more upstream bandwidth, so why would download
bandwidth be all that important when my guess is 2 Mbps is around the best
upstream anyone can get around here short of commercial/business grade.
Frankly I'd gladly give back 1/2 my download bandwidth (most of it wasted)
for 1 Mbps more on the upside.  Few servers can dish out the download
bandwidth capability most people have, but then again providers know this as
their own form of throttling.

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 8:29 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:

> It'll really depend on if you're doing things like running a web
> server, if you're making your own files available to yourself from
> elsewhere (and where a service like DropBox is less appropriate), etc.
>
> For example, I might run rosettacode.org from home if I had a
> reasonable Internet connection for it. It'd be nice to not need to pay
> twice as much per month just to have twice as much RAM available to
> me.
>
> On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 7:02 PM, Jonathan Jesse <jjesse at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Perhaps a silly question but why the need for such high bandwidth?  I am
> a uverse customer with middle of the road level of Internet connection and I
> don't notcie the lag getting my workmdone from home, watching the occasional
> video on vimeo or YouTube.  Netflix runs fine as well for me.... Trying
> justify the cost of increased bandwidth when I mostly do some streaming,
> lots of email and web browsing and chatting on irc
> >
> >
> > Sent from my iPad
> >
> > On May 18, 2011, at 5:08 PM, Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam at whitemice.org>
> wrote:
> >
> >> On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 16:29 -0400, Dan Pilcheck wrote:
> >>>>> On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Matthew Seeley <
> matthew at threadlight.com>
> >>>>> wrote:
> >>>>>> I have the 24m Uverse service in Jenison.
> >>>>>> At first, it was excellent. Got 22m down on off hours, and 18m down
> on
> >>>>>> peak times. Was that way for the first two - three months.
> >>>>>> Then, AT&T went door-to-door and signed up everyone in the apartment
> >>>>>> complex.
> >>>>>> Now I only get 10m down on peak times, and 14m down on off hours.
> (Even
> >>>>>> when paying for the '24m' plan though)
> >>> Bob (Et al.), Sorry if I'm taking this to far off topic for the thread;
> >>> What about Comcast Business at the home?
> >>> IIRC its been touched on here, but I couldn't dig up anything relevant.
> >>
> >> I had AT&T business class DSL to my home for a long time (this includes
> >> static IPs, a router, etc...).  Performance was very good.
> >>
> >> But U-verse (which also includes TV) and a Linode is actually cheaper.
> >> You still get an always-on static IP hosts (the Linode) that isn't on
> >> your power bill - and you can run server's without violating your
> >> EULA.
> >>
> >> It is also quite handy to OpenVPN from whatever-crappy-network-I'm-on to
> >> the Linode.
> >>
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