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 ·AT&T Southeast
1 edit | This guy's funny fight against the "perception issue" that AT&T service is slower than cable.
Ummm it is slower. Lets evaluate. I had 5 meg internet through a cable modem. I received, at a minimum, 5 meg and usually 6-7 meg. On my oh so wonderful 6meg DSL line, I get 4.5meg on a good day. Doesn't take a genius to figure that out. DSL is slower unless you have a crappy cable connection or are lucky enough to live next door to the CO. |
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| I was thinking the same thing. "Perception issue". All I have to do is go next door to my neighbor that has AT&T DSL and the speed difference is immediately noticeable. |
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1 edit | Yes Cable HSI is faster but do you get a CONSTANT 5-7 megs 24/7 cause I seen some(Comcast) drop all he way to 1meg |
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 dadkinsCan you do Blu?Premium,MVM
join:2003-09-26
Hercules, CA
kudos:18 | said by odreian615:Yes Cable HSI is faster but do you get a CONSTANT 5-7 megs 24/7 cause I seen some(Comcast) drop all he way to 1meg I get a constant 17.3mbps - if the source can push it.
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 kpfx
join:2005-10-28
San Antonio, TX | reply to odreian615
I just hate it when my Cable connection goes from 22 Mbps down to 14 Mbps... what a bunch of crooks!
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NormanSPremium,MVM
join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
kudos:4 Reviews:
·SONIC.NET
·Pacific Bell - SBC
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said by AnCow :
I was thinking the same thing. "Perception issue". All I have to do is go next door to my neighbor that has AT&T DSL and the speed difference is immediately noticeable.
Really? My sister has Comcast, I have AT&T. I've been on her connection, and she on mine. She has the 8M service, I have 3M. Neither of us have noticed any difference.
Well, I did max out her connection, once (before she upgraded to 8M service), which I download a Knoppix Live CD. Once. None of my fansubbed anime torrents run any faster on her 8M connection than they do on my 3M connection. Mostly due to weak torrents with few peers; I'm not after the popular MPAA shows, or RIAA music tracks, so I don't usually connect with well-populated trackers.
As for overall costs, Comcast "Triple Play", after the year is up, would be about $25 a month more than POTS+DSL+DTV. And before the year is up? About the same price. So we aren't going to budge at this time.
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LeeWL
join:2002-11-10
Morrisville, NC | reply to ender7074
I also have the same "perception" of slower internet speeds.
Of course, that could also be that I can only get 3.0 service here, even though, the neighborhood, which the part I am in is 2 years old, has fiber at the curb and according to the techs I have talked to at the box beside my driveway wher ehte fiber terminates, the box is upgraded to the latest software and is 6.0 capable. But inspite of all that, because someone has not set some field in a database, we do not even have the option for 6.0 when you call and they give me no reason why.
BTW, I live about 4 miles from Cisco's RTP (and NetApp, and Ericssony's, etc, etc, ) operations, which makes it seem all the worse somehow, knowing that all that massive bandwidth is right in the area. |
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