I've had Pacific Bell's residential DSL service (in L.A.) for eight months and from the downloading point of view it is certainly 'all that', a reliable 145 to 150 Kbps. (You can test your connection speed here.) It took several phone calls and a trip to a downtown hotel to get the service established and hardware installed. However, as an obsessive mp3 and porn consumer, I am incredibly satisfied with the service, especially the price. Caveats: (1) the basic residential package limits up-stream to around 12 Kpbs, making DSL a bad choice for uses like video-conferencing, and (2) you can use the DSL line simultaneously for vox calls but filters are required and even with filtering there's occaisional line noise; if I had it to do over I would use a fax/comm line for the DSL.
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I've had Pacific Bell's residential DSL service (in L.A.) for eight months and from the downloading point of view it is certainly 'all that', a reliable 145 to 150 Kbps. (You can test your connection speed here.) It took several phone calls and a trip to a downtown hotel to get the service established and hardware installed. However, as an obsessive mp3 and porn consumer, I am incredibly satisfied with the service, especially the price. Caveats: (1) the basic residential package limits up-stream to around 12 Kpbs, making DSL a bad choice for uses like video-conferencing, and (2) you can use the DSL line simultaneously for vox calls but filters are required and even with filtering there's occaisional line noise; if I had it to do over I would use a fax/comm line for the DSL.