Yes but the phone companies must be willing to invest in the hardware
and many local/piecemeal phone systems won't do it.
I live less than 2 miles from my switch (As the bird flies closer to
1 mile) and they could not deliver 6mps with reliability, and had to
cut it back to 1.5.
Our cable system can deliver 6 mps with better reliability than the
phone company can that is sad.
Stewart
At 08:02 PM 3/12/2008, you wrote:
Nope. The newest format, VHDSL2, provides up to 250 Mbps full duplex over
twisted-pair copper. It was designed to work over POTS lines. Max
distance from the CO is 3 miles. At that distance the data rate drops to
4 Mbps.
Over fiber, FiOS can hit 2488 Mbps downstream, half that upstream.
Look at Wikipedia "List of Device Bandwidths." The fastest DSL and FiOS
services are faster than the fastest cable services.
Rev. Stewart A. Marshall
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Prince of Peace www.princeofpeaceozark.org
Ozark, AL SL 82
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