tonydi
Premium,MVM
join:2001-05-11
San Jose, CA
| reply to manand
Re: [Speed Problem] 3MB Pro subscriber getting 1.5mb/1.6mb speed
You might want to try "technician roulette" and call in again and hope to get a different, more cooperative tier 2 tech. What happened to you is very out of character, normally these people are quick to help because they've seen this so many time.
Just ask them to check your profile at the aggregation router because it's not downloading at the Pro speed. |
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manand
join:2004-10-18
Fremont, CA
| tonydi,
Thanks for your advice. I called AT&T support again and got very helpful technician at tier2. He found that everything is fine at their end but it could be capped in the maintenance so transferred me to them. The lady in the maintenance said yes somehow its capped at 1984kbs so she changed it to 3008kbps. Now, everything sounds to be working as expected.
Thanks |
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tonydi
Premium,MVM
join:2001-05-11
San Jose, CA
| Great! Now that's the type of service I'm used to getting and hearing about once you get past the front line phone support. I just wish we could figure out why this sort of configuration error continues to happen and why it seems to be happening with more frequency lately. |
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sforce2014
join:2006-01-15
San Francisco, CA
| reply to manand
Wow that's great. I have the exact problem as you and I just called tech support today. They said they'll need to run a 3-day line test on me first and so the higher level technicians will have more information before I get to talk to them. Hopefully, my problem will be resolved like yours! I've been stuck with this speed for a couple of years. I tried talking to them before but it went no where. |
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manand
join:2004-10-18
Fremont, CA | what is the 3 days line test? |
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sforce2014
join:2006-01-15
San Francisco, CA | I think they are going to monitor my line for 3 days and watch the sync rate too as well. |
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tonydi
Premium,MVM
join:2001-05-11
San Jose, CA
| reply to manand
said by manand  :what is the 3 days line test? No idea, I've never heard of such a thing. Sounds more like a phone tech who wanted to get rid of a caller.  |
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manand
join:2004-10-18
Fremont, CA | reply to sforce2014
sforce214, you might want to call support again. Hopefully, next time you will get an agent who is ready to help. |
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sforce2014
join:2006-01-15
San Francisco, CA
| Just called them again, took them a long time to test my speed and test my speed without the router. After all of that, the guy said he talked to the line maintenance and said that it is probably not possible for me to get the full 3.0Mbps speed because I live too far away from the server? (I live in San Francisco btw). However, they said that they are increasing my speed and that I should be getting a little over 2.0Mbps in 2-3 days. (Right now I have 1.6Mbps). Not as good as I hoped, but better than nothing? |
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sforce2014
join:2006-01-15
San Francisco, CA
edit:
May 11th, @07:01PM
| Okay, I just tested my speed and now I am up to 2.5Mbps, I guess that is pretty good...
anyways, if they can increase my speed to 2.5Mbps, why don't they just increase it to 3.0Mbps... |
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manand1324
@sbcglobal.net | I get maximum 2.5mb as well when tested using speakeasy. I think thats the maximum speed I can get. |
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tonydi
Premium,MVM
join:2001-05-11
San Jose, CA
| reply to sforce2014
If you're getting 2.5Mbps on the AT&T speedtest site, then that's the full Pro speed. You sync at 3008 but there's overhead involved, which gobbles up roughly 15% of the speed.
Look at the link at the top of the forum where it says:
Please CLICK HERE for what to post to receive help with connectivity issues.
You'll see the links in #9 for accessing your line stats, presuming your modem is doing the PPPoE login. If the login info is in your router, you'll have to connect a computer directly to the modem to get the stats. Post the stats as advised so we can tell you just how marginal your line is.
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