Been trying to get DSL for 3 years now...

[blucable]

After giving up on AT&T customer support countless hours of calls, I decided to give my last try on here.

I only got 2 questions and a suggestion for an AT&T moderator.

1st question: If you tried to get DSL in your area, for more than 3 years and AT&T keeps telling you that your address does not show up in their system because the USPS has it wrong, then you contact USPS a zillion times and USPS tells you your address is correct but AT&T says address is still incorrect, how would you feel?

2nd question: when I'm telling you there is a fiber optic cable running underground by my house and that there's DSL in there because I am seeing the cable with my eyes, why the AT&T customer support tries to smart talk to me? They won't believe it at all. May be I should dig it out so they can send a human being to check and see with its own eyes that I can get service.

Suggestion: do not even try to refer me to customer support or the (I'm sorry but it's true) annoying computer talking process of 5 hours just to talk to a real person about the issue. They never try to help, and I'm sorry but they act like I'm crazy when I say "you know what, I will offer AT&T $10.000 and no I am not kidding, I will pay up to $15.000 if in some kind of way I can get DSL at my location"

I am serious, I need Internet for my Internet classes and my freelancing job. Customer support does not have the smallest bit of a clue of how necessary and needed Internet is in my area.

[blucable]

Like how many customers you want to commit to the DSL service so you guys can service our area? There are hundreds of people here paying hundreds of dollars for cappy satellite, even if you guys make us commit in to a 10 years contract $80 monthly for unlimited DSL at at least 1.5mbps we would do it, I just wonder what it takes? Plus a map provided by some government office in the state of Arkansas shows that AT&T was provided with funds to service our area, so what's going on?

[rooted]

Why not get a 3G modem? Or an android smartphone and tether it?

I previously lived in AR and suffered the same issue, I lived about 800ft down a private lane off a road that had DSL service available. I ended up purchasing a Droid and tethering it for two years before moving to an area with service available. My speeds were quite nice tethered, anywhere from 1.5 to 3 megabits a second down and about 800kbps up.

[blucable]

I need a straight-solid stable Internet connection. In other words, server-like. Can't go offline at any moment, it's almost a constant stream.

[rooted]

A 3G modem could provide what you need, they are as reliable as anything else in my experience. Not unlimited bandwidth likely (any longer) but neither is ATT DSL.

[blucable]

Well AT&T DSL was unlimited in my previous address, it was 12mbps super fast, my server would be up 24/7. I got the iPhone 4s and tethering, would not be a problem but 5 or 8 Gb wouldn't be enough not even a week.

[rooted]

Problem is it is no longer unlimited.

[rooted]

Limited to 150 gigs per month now.

[blucable]

Well, I was never able to pull such amount lol, may be 2GB per day tho