Bellsouth DSL Goes Extreme

Friday, Jun. 10 2005 | Author: jeremy

I mean really extreme. If you live in the Southeastern U.S. and you are a subscriber of Bellsouth’s DSL Internet service, you will soon have the option of a 6mb connection.

Announced yesterday, the FastAccess DSL Xtreme 6.0 service will provide users with 6 MB connections to support demanding next-generation network applications. Business users will be able to benefit from the same kind of big data pipe for shared access and other applications with FastAccess Business DSL 6.0.

I am currently on the 256K DSL Lite at home, but may consider upgrading just to take advantage of the speed increase.

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14 Responses for "Bellsouth DSL Goes Extreme"

Phill Bryant

June 10th, 2005 at 11:34 pm
1

Haha as soon as Telstra get around to it we should get 24Mb connections :D

Awesome it will be.
Brody

June 11th, 2005 at 12:03 am
2

Hopefully this means cable will upgrading soon ^_^
Strife_Clou0

June 11th, 2005 at 12:19 am
3

hey have they found a way to increase dial-up without using another type of connection?
Lyno

June 11th, 2005 at 6:07 am
4

Strange cos most places in the UK have the option of 8Mb connections, and i thought we got things last
Tiberius

June 11th, 2005 at 10:21 am
5

Yep, I got my bulldog 8mb connection coming soon :D
ScottyWH

June 11th, 2005 at 12:04 pm
6

If they make this happen before my cable provider I may very well have to move away from Vonage back to Ma Bell. FWIW, at least one of the cable companies has been doing 5 megabit for months now in select markets (see the forums at dslreports.com for more info). Always good to hear about progress,though.
cliche

June 11th, 2005 at 1:20 pm
7

What’s so extreme about 6MBps? I’ve been on 10MBps for years(RCN NY).

In a related news, the town of boondoxx AK went extreme with 14.4k z-modem connection.
sreenath the tech geek circuit builder

June 11th, 2005 at 2:28 pm
8

DSL 6.0!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I might move to FLA to get that deal!!
sreenath the tech geek circuit builder

June 11th, 2005 at 2:29 pm
9

hey cliche where do you get this boomdocks news id like eyto know so i can laugh it up when they get 21kbps
Ryan

June 12th, 2005 at 12:13 am
10

Comcast has 6.6Mbps down/768kbps up…
Richard sharp

June 12th, 2005 at 7:24 am
11

WOWEEEEE, im on my amazing 300KB NTL extravaganze connection! PH33R MEEEE WORLD!

-Richard sharp
AkaXakA

June 13th, 2005 at 11:24 am
12

Ha!

Welcome to the future, but until you have 20mbit it’s not really broadband (hassle them about Adsl 2+).
ik

June 14th, 2005 at 1:45 am
13

Our max here in NL is 20Mbit. 6 is becoming standard here :D
Charles Etheridge

January 15th, 2007 at 5:58 pm
14

I have been trying for quite some time to upgrade my DSL subscription to 6.0 mbps and am told that it is not available at my
address, though 3.0 works very well. Just a bit ago I saw that a limitation is that one must be within 3.5 miles of the Bellsouth office by road, and I am within that distance. I am getting really annoyed that the 6.0 is not made available to me, especially since it is advertised online in this area. its tempting to go with Comcast but I don’t want to have to change my address.