Well guys the original poster gave me his DSL number and I found the following
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SPEED PROFILE 6016/3008 55
SYNC OPEN------>NOERROR
SYNC STATUS---->NORMAL ATU-R PWR-> ON
LINKDN STATUS-->NORMAL DSL STATE-> SYNC
LINKDGR STATUS->NORMAL STATUS-> IS
PSTAT-> IS-NR
DOWNSTREAM <-> UPSTREAM
CAPACITY CAP 98.0 <-> 82.0
NOISE MARGIN NOI 5.0 <-> 11.5
TRANSMISSION PWR PWR 16.0 <-> 12.0
SIGNAL ATTENUATION ATT 31.5 <-> 15.0
RATE SPD 6016F <-> 768F
Got one alarm on you to:
INTERFERENCE Single frequency interferers
were found at 280, 543, 573, 625, 664,
702, 733, 823, 853, 875, 884, 892, 914,
974, 1022 kHz . Excessive single frequency
interferences may be due to more than 100 feet of
unbonded/ungrounded cable or premises wiring.
Your upper level frequencies are just about all over the place as far as bits per channel. I am afraid I am going to have to agree with the porpoise as far as pinging, some of SBC/AT&T's hops do not respond to pings. Best thing to look at is the traceroute times through them. They are starting to degrade pinging for more better purposes.
Wanna plug this modem in at the nid/sni/gray test jack and see if this signal improves out there?