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AT&T Broadband Introduces Tiered Pricing

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the add-a-rheostat-and-a-quarter-slot dept.

Joey Patterson writes "It had to happen sooner or later. CNET reports that AT&T Broadband has introduced a tiered pricing plan called UltraLink (3 Mbps down/384 kbps up) for $79.99/month if you buy your own modem and $82.95/month if you lease one of theirs."

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  1. Comcast too by kawika · · Score: 5, Informative

    Comcast has been offering a premium service for a few months now:

    http://comcast.comcastonline.com/memberservices/ Ad ditionalProducts/serviceupgrades.asp

    They don't seem to promote it though.

  2. Re:I can't believe some of you would complain... by forkboy · · Score: 5, Informative

    What they're offering is NOT better than a full T1. Sure, it might be faster on the download side, but the advantage of a T1 is that you have equal bandwidth upstream, as well as a block of static IPs to have your way with....not to mention no restrictions on use. (barring legality of course)

    Of course, a T1 is still around $800 per month and this is $80, so obviously this is the better choice for the home user with a limited budget.

    Just don't say it's better than a T1....it's a far cry from it.

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  3. Re:Power users? by Enigma2175 · · Score: 5, Informative
    so they buy a hub, because it's cheaper, and then all your lan data gets thrown to the cable modem, which dutifully passes it on to the upstream gateway, which then deals with (and disgards) it.

    I don't think that is the case with AT&T, at least with my service. The cable modem acts as a bridge, it should only pass traffic that is destined for the MAC address of my default gateway (and broadcasts). I don't have my network set up in that way, but if I did I don't think it would cause much more data to be pushed up my cable. Maybe the NetBIOS(except AT&T explicitly blocks NetBIOS) broadcasts from the Windows machines and ARP requests, but the bandwidth consumed would be negligible.

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