Jef Slyn so astutely pointed out to me that I said "cable." That's not cable like the cable company's cable, which is "coaxial" (one wire in the center and one "wire" around it as a sheath).
The phone company cable is "twisted pair" cable which is just a couple of wires twisted together. These are the same wires that your phone has run on since since AGB called out to Watson, or whenever your house was built, whichever came later. The real trick of UVerse is that they are bringing fiber (light through a fiber of some kind of special glass) to your neighborhood. Other parts of the country get fiber right up to the home (Verizon's FIOS is one such product). UVerse is AT&T's way of trying to bring fiber closer to the home without going to the expense of installing fiber the whole way and putting specials interface boxes on every home. It's better than DSL all the way to a central office three miles away, but it's still not true fiber or coaxial, both of which have much higher bandwidth capacity. Sorry for the confusion. j. On Sep 20, 2011, at 12:00 PM, Jonathan Fletcher <[email protected]> wrote: > Sorry, Nora, but have you compared the numbers? > > The top number published about UVerse is 24 Megabit, and AT&T says it costs > $63. 20 Megabits with Insight is $45 and you can get all the way up to 50 > Megs (a mostly out-of-reach $95, but there if you have to have it). The > lowest Insight speed is 10 Megabit ($35) and the lowest UVerse is 3 Megabit > ($38). > > If I paid for UVerse service just three dollars more than what I pay for 20 > megabit service right now, I could get a whopping 6 Megabits! > > Now, Insight says those numbers are the maximum and doesn't promise them. > That is understood, but I have never had a problem and typically get right > around what they promise and frequently more. UVerse is supposed to be some > kind of dedicated cable to your house, and you supposedly are not sharing > that bandwidth with your neighbors, as is the case with Insight. While your > connection may technically stay at the advertised speed, your ability to > access the internet is still shared with the whole neighborhood--the choke > point is just further up the street. > > I'll keep my Insight, er, ah, Time-Warner. > > j. > > > On Sep 20, 2011, at 10:27 AM, <[email protected]> > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> From: Nora Probasco <[email protected]> >> Date: September 20, 2011 10:26:54 AM EDT >> To: Topics related to Apple and Macintosh computers >> <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [MacGroup] Direct TV? >> Reply-To: Topics related to Apple and Macintosh computers >> <[email protected]> >> >> >> Jonathan, I have DSL high speed Internet through Earthlink that is much >> faster than regular Insight broadband. It depends on what level service you >> order through Insight. >> >> Nora > > > > -- > Jonathan Fletcher > FileMaker 9/10/11 Certified Developer > > Fletcher Data Consulting > [email protected] > http://www.fletcherdata.com > 502-509-7137 > > Kentuckiana's FileMaker Users Group > Next meeting: Tuesday, September 27, 12:00 pm to 3:00-ish > Blog: http://www.kyfmp.com > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup -- Jonathan Fletcher FileMaker 9/10/11 Certified Developer Fletcher Data Consulting [email protected] http://www.fletcherdata.com 502-509-7137 Kentuckiana's FileMaker Users Group Next meeting: Tuesday, September 27, 12:00 pm to 3:00-ish Blog: http://www.kyfmp.com _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list [email protected] http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
