Hi all-
Here is my long story short (as possible)-
I moved to FL about 3.5 years ago. Had Comcast cable modem service since, shoot, at least like 2000 or '01 at the latest... over the years the speed went up from however-slow to 6 Mbps to 18 Mbps to 21 Mbps, shortly before I moved they 'doubled' the Blast! speed to 50 Mbps DL, I want to say 7-10 UL ... I was very fortunate to just 'transfer' my service with Comcast when I moved down to FL , and the house that I rented for the last 3.5 years [while building] also had Comcast Blast (Plus) cable modem service. A year or two ago they more than doubled the service to 105 Mbps, was going up to about 125 for a month or two, then they 'reduced the free upgrade' to 75 Mbps / 10 Mbps [realistically was seeing about 85+ DL / 11-13 UL] .... finally, after long last, my house I have been building about 20 miles away is finished, I moved in a few weeks ago.
However, here is the hard part. All I could get was CenturyLink DSL. It was CenturyLink or satellite. Comcast had assured me they're working on huge upgrades, they'd have my new neighborhood wired before I even finished construction! Not even in their planned area of expansion apparently. CenturyLink was the best I could do. They said they could give me 7 Mbps DL and "whatever the best we can do" UL. Then it was, 6 Mbps DL. Now that it has been installed for 2 weeks, it is in fact 6 Mbps DL most of the time, but only like .446 UL. It's very tough having spend the last 15+ years having some of the best and fastest connections residentially available and now I'm at the bottom of the barrel.
My questions are this- CenturyLink was all in a tizzy to tell me how they recently switched to "One price for life, no contract!" pricing, and how they're undergoing nationwide upgrades, I might get faster service someday! Oh gee, great. What I want to know is, since i know so very little about DSL, could I get them to give me more service if I paid more, or got more wiring installed etc.? What I mean to say is, I have read about VDSL and VDSL2 and VDSL+ and bonded DSL and combining several DSL lines at a certain speed to multiply them etc. Is that something that is possible, they just didn't offer it to me, or is it only possible in certain areas etc?
If you want my info, here is what I can provide for background. Right now, I get this in my modem settings-
7.069/0.446 Mbps (it was something like .576 UL the first day, and I had an outage as soon as the sun went down the first night, it went out all night, when the next morning came around, the net worked again, the the UL was set to .446, and has been ever since.)
Line mode is ADSL2Plus
"Estimated Loop Length 7288 feet" -- this is bad right? Is this the length to the nearest big-huge network box? That would make sense, it's about that far away it seems to me, same neighborhood development but several big streets over. The nearest small "network box" is at the corner of my driveway, but I live on 30 acres, and my driveway is about 700 feet away, plus above 100 feet to the house, so we (the install tech) and I estimated the length from the house control panel to the network box to be a bit less than 1000.
DSL Power:
Levels
Downstream
Upstream
SNR
9.4 dB
22.1 dB
Attenuation
49.0 dB
30.0 dB
Power
19.2 dBm
12.4 dBm
(although it just rained and because there is only a temporary line run yet, they are coming supposedly Friday to permanently install a buried line, it seems to drop out when it rains, perhaps those numbers are lower than normal -- again I am a total DSL noob.)
What I am really wondering is, could I get them to give me more service/speed if we did some bamboozling of the service/setup? It's not that money is no object- far from it- but I certainly would be willing to pay more than the $45 if it will give me more speed. The idea of "bonded DSL" appeals to me , although I don't totally understand it- I am wondering if I could say, listen, hook up two lines so it's 12/1 etc. (or more etc. etc. etc.0
Ok thanks again, sorry if I rambled, I very much appreciate everyone's time and efforts.
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