just got winforst/surewest connection at the house. they install a fiber connection to the outside of your house and punch a hole through the outside of your garage to install a lucent Fiber to ethernet converter. When everything is said and done you (are supposed to) get 10mbps i nternet connection along with your telephone over the same cat5 pair. Unfortunately they havent been able to bundle digital cable over the same facilities, and run coax just like your other digital cable providers.

When I ran DSL reports, I was pleased to see that I clocked 9.4 mbps down, but the upload stream varied from 2mbps up to 8 mbps. the upload stream was not constant, but i seemed to report better upload speeds if i would run the tests right after I finished one...

Not sure why that happens - i thought my speeds were supposed to be symmetrical and constant, but hey im not complaining - sure does beat dialup.