Changed DNS Server? in Earthlink DSL http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r22489018 en Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:40:01 EDT Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:40:01 EDT Re: Changed DNS Server? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22489162 DrStrange : Your DSL line was migrated from Covad to AT&T. Earthlink's done [or attempted to do] that quite a lot in the last couple of years, with varying degrees of success [or failure :( ]

»/nsearch?q=cov···d=1&52=1]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22489162 Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:32:34 EDT Changed DNS Server? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22489018 baumgrenze : 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]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22489018 Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:10:59 EDT