Last fall I cobbled together a machine for home and pulled the trigger on DSL service at the house. It's been acceptable, but never quite as fast as I expected. I chalked it up to being spoiled to a T1 feeding through a gigbit network on my office machine.
Guess I wasn't as wrong as I thought. I'd had some problems with intermittant static in the phone lines. I traced it to bad insulation on a 1' segment of exposed exterior wiring. AT&T came by today and replaced the line and junction box. Static gone. Good. But this evening I've noticed at significant improvement in 'net speed, too. Bonus!
Fox news still loads slow, though. Nothing with the connection, just the sheer amount of data from their woefully bloated web page. Why do they insist on all that crap loading before you can actually see the news?
Brad