| Changed DNS Server? I just ran a speed test with these results:
Speed Test #72646336 by dslreports.com
Run: 2009-06-03 11:57:42 EST
Download: 185 (Kbps)
Upload: 105 (Kbps)
In kilobytes per second: 22.5 down 12.8 up
Tested by server: 55 java
User: 1015332 @ dslreports.com
User's DNS: sbcglobal.net
Compared to the average of 868 tests from sbcglobal.net:
* download is 94% worse, upload is 83% worse
It has been a while, but here's the previous one:
Speed Test #45841553 by dslreports.com
Run: 2008-02-13 15:43:41 EST
Download: 304 (Kbps)
Upload: 100 (Kbps)
In kilobytes per second: 37.1 down 12.2 up
Tested by server: 55 java
User: 1015332 @ dslreports.com
User's DNS: covad.net
Compared to the average of 181 tests from covad.net:
* download is 83% worse, upload is 75% worse
Can someone explain the change in my "User's DNS" from covad to sbcglobal? AT&T/sbcglobal have been actively promoting U-Verse in my area. In the past, they refused to provide dsl in my neighborhood. The copper is too bad.
It looks to me as though Earthlink's local competitor now controls the speed at which I connect via dsl. Something about this does not seem right to me. Am I being paranoid?
At this point, the big source of inertia is AT&T's insistence that I give up access to the internet for a week or two to allow them to install U-Verse. This reminds me of Switzerland's state run PTT when I visited live there for a year in 1985. Clearly capitalism works and private enterprise provides 'better service' or they lose out to a competitor?
Thanks,
baumgrenze |
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