So, ive been back in the market for a failover line if the price is right and my options are limited to poor coverage LTE or a frontier DSL line.
Long story short, I'm not going to go into my credentials but i'm quite familiar with the system and how it works.
I'm in Central FL, which is all an ex GTE/VZW territory.
I have searched homes that are literally stone-throw distance from a DSLAM throughout my area (the next two towns as well), and there was nothing but 3MBPS results for speed with the exception of one home that came back with 6MBPS available, only 6 blocks away from the CO in a decent sized town (lake wales).
Whats going on here? I DO know that all ports are still on ADSL, But ive had a 7.1 MBPS ADSL line with Frontier. Is this lack of backbone? Or is the copper so shot out that most people end up complaining about poor reliability when they are on higher tiers?
Ive seen posts where people could achieve 15MBPS if they would simply enable ADSL2+, yet are stuck on 3MBPS. I understand that enough calling and convincing, you can manage to have your line sync'd up if your stats support it but lord thats still a limit of 6MBPS due to current tiers that support ADSL.
Any input?
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