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In Reply to: RE: Believe it or not, T Smith, there's a few dozen of us in the US posted by cdb on December 05, 2007 at 20:48:42
I do not know where you live, but you should keep checking with your local phone company. Most telcos are putting fiber "deeper" into their voice networks which means that the amount of copper between your house and a fiber node gets less and less. The limiting factor on DSL is the distance the signal has to travel over the twisted copper pair. So, if you asked about DSL two years ago and were told "no," the same question today might get a different answer if your local telco has been building out fiber into the neighborhoods (which, in varying degrees, they all are).
I have Verizon's DSL service in metro DC at, IIRC $25/month. I regularly get download speeds of over 1Mb, which beats hell out of dial-up. Once in a while I'll notice problems at peak times (evening) but, having had the service for a number of years, it's been very reliable. Cable internet access is a bigger pipe, but is priced here at about $44 -- $60/month depending upon what else you buy from Comcast.
If you're out in the country, there's HughesNet, which is a satellite-delivered service. I have no idea what it costs but I assume its more expensive than either DSL or cable.
Verizon's FIOS and a similar product from AT&T (formerly SBC Communications) is being rolled out only in neighborhoods that, by income, etc. appear to be prime candidates for such a service. That usually means "upper middle class, suburban neighborhoods but not those on huge lots."
Since it appears from your photo gallery that you are a "power" guy, it might interest you that electricity suppliers have received permission to use powerlines for broadband communications (acronym: "BPL"). The technology has been demonstrated on an experimental basis; I don't know if anyone is rolling it out commercially. But that might happen in a year or two, now that regulatory hurdles have been cleared.
I hope this information has been helpful to you. I think Ted's answered the other points in your post well enough.
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