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<title>AT&#x26;T Southwest forum - dslreports.com community</title>
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<title>DSLReports can&#x27;t ping me!</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22630342</link>
<description><![CDATA[I have a Dl-615 router and the settings were already properly configured:  

[att=1]

I checked Zone Alarm Pro and correctly configured the settings:

[att=2]

What settings am I missing?  I wanted to do a line test, when I found out I wasn't pingable.  

Edit:  I have five computers here; four of them have software firewalls and the other has zero security software. 

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<pubDate>2009-06-29 19:05:27</pubDate>
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<title>Anyone?</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22629526</link>
<description><![CDATA[Describe the difference between connecting a computer to a DSL modem via USB and connecting a computer to a DSL modem via Ethernet. Do you have an opinion on which connection type is most reliable?]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-06-29 16:25:37</pubDate>
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<title>SBC DSL Elite Dallas Area</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22594179</link>
<description><![CDATA[I have had my 5.1Mbps DSL Elite drop over the last two weeks or so to much less than dialup.

I had a SBC DSL tech come 8 days ago on a Friday to check it out ... replaced the DSL modem with a new one and checked out the lines between my PCs and the central office.  Everything checked out fine but the problem still exists.  I also pay for them to maintain the "lines" in my house ... came with the telephones packages.

It will go back up to full speed and then drop to 12 kbps ... been going off and on like this at random.

The tech said that he had "fixed" other customers with the same problem only to have it come back several hours and/or days later ... fixed the same clients multiple times in same week.  Sounds like a real waste of service depts time since I think it has to do with the ATT "cloud".

We (I) think that it is a problem with SBC servers/network.  Wish there was a way to find out without calling India for support.  I do software for a living, assemble my own servers, and this does not sound like a hardware problem.

Paying for Elite and getting dialup sucks!!!]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-06-22 22:40:02</pubDate>
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<title>Elite speeds continue to drop over past week,</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22607299</link>
<description><![CDATA[We recently upgraded to Elite within the past month or so, and while I have never seen 6mbps on a speedtest, I was seeing 3.5 to just over 4mbps until recently. The past few days I am lucky to see anything over 2mbps. Here's a speedtest.net report from about an hour ago:
http://www.speedtest.net/result/503476413.png

Also, I have been noticing the slowest speeds seem to begin at night and get worse into early morning, and have also seen that every morning at 6:28, any load at all (a speedtest, YouTube, heavy flash pages) will kill my connection on both PCs (one connected to the router, the other by WiFi) until I reset the router.

Can anyone offer any advice? Any ideas why my connection has suddenly turned to garbage? Multiple modem and router resets haven't helped. Thank you.]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-06-25 06:45:28</pubDate>
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<title>can&#x27;t get to much of the internet</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22642125</link>
<description><![CDATA[seems like half the internet is gone!  I can get here and many other places but about half the websites I try are not available.

I don't think it is a problem with my setup it looks like trouble in Denver.  Here is my tracert to Ebay

Tracing route to ebay.com [66.135.221.11]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    11 ms    12 ms    11 ms  192.168.1.1
  2     4 ms     7 ms     8 ms  192.168.0.1
  3    16 ms    12 ms    17 ms  bras5-l0.rcsntx.sbcglobal.net [151.164.182.20]
  4    12 ms    13 ms    14 ms  dist1-vlan120.rcsntx.sbcglobal.net [151.164.162.
66]
  5    11 ms    12 ms    14 ms  151.164.93.188
  6    14 ms    13 ms    24 ms  ex1-p2-0.eqdltx.sbcglobal.net [151.164.40.33]
  7    15 ms    15 ms    18 ms  above-sbc-oc12.lga4.above.net [151.164.89.94]
  8    10 ms    14 ms    17 ms  vlan89.csw3.Dallas1.Level3.net [4.68.19.190]
  9    15 ms    21 ms    19 ms  ae-82-82.ebr2.Dallas1.Level3.net [4.69.136.145]

 10    36 ms    38 ms    39 ms  ae-2.ebr1.Denver1.Level3.net [4.69.132.105]
 11    28 ms    30 ms    35 ms  ae-11-51.car1.Denver1.Level3.net [4.68.107.6]
 12     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 13     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 14     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 15     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 16     *        *        *     Request timed out.]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-07-01 21:07:58</pubDate>
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<title>client issues, lost username/password and no way to verify</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22637888</link>
<description><![CDATA[we only have the phone number, unfortunately the customer shreds his bills, i warned him about a reset on his router and told him "worse thing we'd have to do is call att... should i do it?" he said yea.. well, we had to call att but have no way to verify.. this is sort of embarassing, its a new client.

any suggestions? all we currently have is the land line.. Att wont help for squat. verifying is becoming a huge hassle with them over the phone, what's the quickest fix ?

things i've done, punched his dsl number into att's website to "sign up" for dsl service, it's come back and said, "you already have idt, wanna upgrade" type thing.. so i try to upgrade and it takes me to the registration page, where i select residential, pop in the zip code.. enter the number and select either last 4 or the 3 digits (i tried this at his house with his last 4 which i had him hide from me and try).. same error when i try a random code here:

Error: The Telephone Number you entered does not match an active account. Please re-enter your Telephone Number.

i figure if we can grab the bill right now, we can get the username.
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<pubDate>2009-07-01 01:40:17</pubDate>
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<title>Paid for Elite but I got worse than Pro</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22630692</link>
<description><![CDATA[I just upgraded to Elite plan from Pro plan last month. The connection is constantly dropped. 
I ran the dsl test line from this site, here is the result:
http://www.dslreports.com/linequality/c566c8934668/2536966

My modem/router was the original one from AT&T: 2701HG-B Gateway

I tried speedtest.net, here is the result:
http://www.speedtest.net/result/506596733.png

I just get so frustrated with the service. I tried to call AT&T technical support many times and they could not provide much help!

Please help!]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-06-29 20:10:30</pubDate>
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<title>Measured Phone Service</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22448541</link>
<description><![CDATA[At&t seems to have taken off their order page, the measured phone service.  Can I still order it from them?  How do I get it?  I would like to use a local Houston dsl company for my service but need the measured phone line.]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-05-26 20:35:10</pubDate>
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<title>DSL Slow/Capped - New Modem</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22549958</link>
<description><![CDATA[I just replaced my speedstream 4100 with a Motorola modem from AT&T store due to slowing download speeds.  Got my speeds up from 300k/300k to 780k/300k on the 1.5mb plan.  Was on chat with AT&T for an hour, they agreed to create a trouble ticket, then said a software glitch prevented them from creating :(.  They also said the line was capped, but couldn't say why and couldn't do anything about it. :mad:.

Suggestions?
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<pubDate>2009-06-14 16:00:21</pubDate>
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<title>Internet is &#x22;going away&#x22; again</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22620398</link>
<description><![CDATA[I can get here and a few other places.  No Google, no Yahoo, etc.

77598 is my zip.  Anyone else?
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<pubDate>2009-06-27 12:45:27</pubDate>
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