For those of you who complain about packet lose that could be in part contributed by local interferences and usually due to old and decrepit phone lines that have been around in your neighborhood since your street was built.... case in point was when my Girlfriend got dsl in her appartment she had a packet loss of nearly 50% so we were confined to 384/128, so we called a rep and they sent over a technician, we told him that we wanted 1.5Mbps like the contract said, but he said that we couldn't do it because of our crappy lines that were bundled up in when the appartment was built. So after paying $150 he ran a direct new line to her apartment and we've maintained a 1.5Mbps/128kpbs with pings as low as 15 on good servers near by.
Hope this clarifies the situation for those thinking that the problems that certain people here had were all the Covad's fault, cause its not (at least, not all the time).
Oh and no I don't work for Covad 🙂