| AT&T Download Speeds What annoyed me with AT&T was this.
I had purchased the "up to" 6 Mbps service which was working great for 6 months. Out of the blue, I started only getting 2.7 Mbps max on the download. After complaining, they bumped me down to the "up to" 3 Mbps service.
You would think if my line previously qualified up to 2.7 Mbps, I'd be able to maintain that even with the 3 Mpbs package? Noooooo, I started getting maximum speeds of 1.3 Mbps and tech support would only tell me that my line couldn't handle anything faster than 1.3.
Then they tried to bump me down to the 1.5 Mbps promising more reliable/consistent service. No thanks. I'm sure I would have gotten maximum speeds of 768 Kbps if I let them downgrade me again.
How can someone less than 900 ft from the CO in a brand new developed area get such poor DSL speeds? |
| If latency is the issue, that is exactly what you'd expect to see: Throughput well below line speed. Drop the line speed, drop the throughput. |
 en102Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA
1 edit | reply to digitallife4ever
That sucks...
I had initialy 1.5/256 from AT&T for 1 year (PPPoE no less)
After the 1 year promo expired, DSL-Extreme offered same price as AT&T has initially, and for a couple $$ more, 3Mbps/512kbps on DHCP.
It worked well. After ~ 1 year (just after renewing, no less), I ended up getting some sync loss, and ended up living at between 2496/512kpbs and 1984/512kbps for quite some time.
AT&T stated that I should only be at 1500/384 because I'm near 12,000' from the CO (prequal at 9,000').
After AT&T's rewiring for Uverse (line drop was due to water in the lines - typically when sprinklers went off, my SNR went into the toilet... same time every day for ~ 6 months).
Now I have a really steady 3008/512kbps sync @ 12,000', and AT&T (through web or store or even resellers like DSL-Extreme) will give 1500/384 kbps. :mad:
Home> wan adsl line near
$ tracert www.yahoo.com
Tracing route to www.yahoo-ht3.akadns.net [209.131.36.158]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.254.11
2 10 ms 10 ms 10 ms netblock-68-183-52-1.dslextreme.com [68.183.52.1]
3 10 ms 10 ms 10 ms LAX1.CR1.Gig6-0.dslextreme.com [66.51.199.133]
4 20 ms 21 ms 20 ms netblock-66-51-198-182.dslextreme.com [66.51.198.182]
5 20 ms 20 ms 29 ms PAT2.SJC.yahoo.com [206.223.116.16]
6 21 ms 21 ms 22 ms g-1-0-0-p171.msr2.sp1.yahoo.com [216.115.107.87]
7 20 ms 20 ms 21 ms te-8-1.bas-a1.sp1.yahoo.com [209.131.32.17]
8 23 ms 21 ms 22 ms f1.www.vip.sp1.yahoo.com [209.131.36.158]
Home> wan adsl chan data
near-end interleaved channel bit rate: 0 kbps
near-end fast channel bit rate: 3008 kbps
far-end interleaved channel bit rate: 0 kbps
far-end fast channel bit rate: 512 kbps
relative capacity occupation: 54%
noise margin downstream: 13.0 db
output power upstream: 12.0 dbm
attenuation downstream: 47.5 db
Node-Lnk Status TxPkts RxPkts Errors Tx B/s Rx B/s Up Time
1-ENET Up 3939640 5397500 0 0 0 113:09:26
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