Tel
join:2001-10-12
Mauldin, SC | reply to Airwolf7
Re: Has AT&T lowered the DS throughput speed for Xtreme 6.0?
No problems here.
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sempergoofy
Premium
join:2001-07-06
Smyrna, GA
 ·AT&T Southeast
| reply to Airwolf7
Still in the normal range for me, too, here in Smyrna, GA. My IP address is still 68.209.xxx.xxx. Uverse is not yet available here, but they have run the fibre up the cross street.
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bootamac
join:2008-07-16
Flowery Branch, GA
| reply to Airwolf7
This was the fastest today. I also got 4.6 and 4.2. There not only is a drop in overall throughput but going from website to website is becoming more delayed. We don't have uverse in my area. |
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Rammer
Premium
join:2001-03-06
clubs: 
·AT&T Southeast
| reply to Airwolf7
well i have lost from 6.3
down too 3.5 now its dropped every month now for 6 months
talked too tech support today and a tech is coming soon {lol]
on that one
have a 2 month old 2 wire modem was also told as long as the speed is above 4.8 then that's all they have too supply ???????????? |
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b33m3R
@bellsouth.net
| reply to Airwolf7
I'm in Alpharetta GA and having major problems. You guys with Ultra are lucky only getting a 500 Kb/s drop. I have DSL Lite, I'm supposed to get 768 Kbps down, which is good enough for us, right now I'm getting 153 Kbps down. It's like browsing on the old 28.8 modems, it's painful.
Over the past two weeks I noticed getting a lot of page timed outs and then last night my download dropped to next to nothing. I believe it may have something to do with the Uverse roll-out. At 7am this morning I did a speed test that registered as 614 Kbps. By 10am I was down to 112 Kbps. I surmise that's when most people have turned on their TV's.
I think they have chopped a little of the speed off all the plans so they have it for the Uverse thing. We called tech support earlier (never realized all their support was abroad, don't Americans need jobs right now?) and they are sending out a tech tomorrow but I know they would never admit to doing what they are doing and I am pretty sure the tech will just say it's our PC. We are going to call billing and complain.
Probably going end up going back to Comcast. |
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NetFixer
Freedom is NOT Free
Premium
join:2004-06-24
Murfreesboro, TN
 ·Vonage
·AT&T Southeast
 ·Cingular Wireless
·AT&T CallVantage
| said by b33m3R :
I'm in Alpharetta GA and having major problems...
Probably going end up going back to Comcast.
I hope the Comcast service in your area is better than it is around here. The cell phone snapshot below (which I see frequently) shows why I switched from Comcast HSI to AT&T DSL.
No TV == No Internet
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b33m3R
@bellsouth.net
| reply to Airwolf7
Suspecting, as others have, that the severe decrease in AT&T DSL speeds has something to do with Uverse (which as I understand it is basically TV over DSL), I have been doing speed tests since we called foreign tech support yesterday.
08/13/2009
7:00am (using speed Flash test on this site) 620k down
12:50pm (Flash test on this site) 150k down
2:00pm (using AT&T speed test) 304k down
5:03pm (Flash test on this site) 169k down
5:19 - 5:54pm DSL was out
6:30pm - AT&T test timed out and blamed me for not installing Java
6:41pm (Flash test on this site) 167k down
9:17pm PRIME TIME....
--- AT&T test timed out and blamed me for not installing Java
--- (Flash test on this site) 39k down
10:26pm - AT&T test timed out and blamed me for not installing Java
11:36pm (AT&T speed test) 445k down
--- (Flash test on this site) 239k down
08/14/2009
12:20am (AT&T speed test) 505k down
5:56am (AT&T speed test) 645k down
7:21am (AT&T speed test) 649 down
I have not been able to use my internet connection for two days now. Maybe in this economy they don't need my business, they must be doing really well with Uverse. I wonder what the tech is going to say when I show him this information?
Comcast isn't too bad in my area, only reason we left them is because we didn't need cable TV (seriously, 199 channels of either the same exact shows or reality tv), don't need home phone (whats the deal with bundling?) and they wanted to raise internet to $50+ a month. Looked into Clear but I see more complaints about that service than praises... Anyone else notice how these corporations hardly compete in pricing with each other?
Oh, and...
8:00am AT&T test timed out and blamed me for not installing Java
8:06am (AT&T speed test) 231k down
And thus it begins anew. |
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FastAttack
Premium
join:2000-07-28
Fort Lauderdale, FL
clubs:
1 edit | reply to Airwolf7
I am down almost a 1Mbps
Doing 5580
when I used to do 6.5 as well.
But in my case I am switching to uverse 18 |
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bmeeks8
join:2001-07-23
Vidalia, GA
·AT&T Southeast
| reply to Airwolf7
I have also noticed a decrease in download speed for my 6.0 meg connection. I test via the Atlanta Speakeasy site and sometimes the old FastAccess site. I routinely saw 6.3 - 6.4 megabits/sec down from Speakeasy. The FastAccess site usually tested about 6 or 5.8.
For the record, my modem stats are 17 dB downstream attenuation and I sync at 8128 on Fast Path. I am 2,668 cable feet away from the DSLAM (verified with a line tech one day while he was using his TDR meter to find and fix a problem). Downstream S/N is 16 dB. These settings have been this way for 3 years, so my physical loop is probably not a factor in my speed drop.
Beginning about a month ago for me, my new download speed hovers around 5.7 megabits/sec from Speakeasy in Atlanta. I've tested many, many times at vastly different times of the day to sort of rule out heavy load periods, but I get the same results. I've tried both PPPoA and PPPoE and see the same speeds with either. I've tried two different modems (Westell 6100 and Netopia 2241N that I purchased myself online) and get the same results with either.
My deduction from this experimentation -- AT&T has fiddled around with the rate limiting settings for my connection and apparently for others as well based on the posts in this thread. |
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b33m3R
@bellsouth.net
| reply to Airwolf7
I would have posted this sooner but the line was down most of the day...
AT&T tech called my wife early this morning and told her it was equipment malfunction. She explained about the major drops during peak TV viewing hours and he said he was sure that Uverse had nothing to do with it and that it was just coincidence but if repairing this equipment did not fix our problem they would see what they could do about boosting our speed... My wife also called billing and got a credit back. Now I remember other reason we left Comcast, they would never admit fault come hell or high water!
Everything seems to be working fine now (getting 658k down) and I'm glad it looks like I won't be switching, I can't imagine spending more than $20 a month on internet. |
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normat
Premium
join:2000-08-02
Boynton Beach, FL
clubs:
| reply to Airwolf7
Interesting, many of us are seeing about 1 Mbps slower while a few are still getting 6.5.
It could just be general congestion or some sort of traffic shaping (perhaps in congested areas). I guess we'll never know. The info doesn't seem as open as it used to be. |
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gun
join:2002-07-08
Lake Worth, FL | reply to Airwolf7
Same here. I was always getting 6.5, now its no higher than 5.8. I know i shouldn't complain about that seeing how alot of other people have it worse now but still why the drop... |
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w4ncr
join:2000-10-27
| The only thing that has changed on my side is the upstream.
Down stream remained the same, enclosed is my stats
DSL Statistics
Line State Up
Modulation ADSL2+
Data Path Fast
Downstream Upstream
Max Allowed Speed (kbps) 8124 508
SN Margin (dB) 9.00 10.00
Line Attenuation (dB) 43.00 24.00
CRC Errors 0 0 |
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rainallday
join:2001-04-15
Columbia, SC
| reply to Airwolf7
Well I don't see the experts offering technical reasons for why this is, so I (always did) believe Big Brother (at&t) has decided on 'shaving' ..... I mean, whats 1/2-1meg between friends??? It's like Red Cross coming to your house and taking a pint, whether you like it or not, your donating!!!!
Can't they rename it 'Almost xtreme 5.5' ???  
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Pashune
Inhaling at 675 KB per sec.
Premium
join:2006-04-14
Gautier, MS
 ·CableOne
·AT&T Southeast
| said by rainallday  :Well I don't see the experts offering technical reasons for why this is, so I (always did) believe Big Brother (at&t) has decided on 'shaving' ..... I mean, whats 1/2-1meg between friends??? It's like Red Cross coming to your house and taking a pint, whether you like it or not, your donating!!!! Can't they rename it 'Almost xtreme 5.5' ??? Or Extreme 6.0 with TCP/IP overhead.  But wait.. Wouldn't that involve effectively changing the downstream sync rate to 6000 kbit? Hmm. 
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wayjac
Premium,MVM
join:2001-12-22
Indy
·AT&T Midwest
| said by Pashune :Wouldn't that involve effectively changing the downstream sync rate to 6000 kbit? Hmm. The dslam sync rate is not where throughput speeds are set on some bellsouth speed plans, if you could see it the radius profile for 5500kbps would be around 6500kbps |
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WantItFaster
@bellsouth.net
| reply to Airwolf7
said by Airwolf7 :My IP address used to start with a 68, 72, 74 and maybe some others but never a 98 and my gateway address used to be 68.208.248.2 and now my IP address is 98.80.XXX.XXX and my gateway address is 98.80.XXX.XXX. The exact second I restarted my modem and got the new IP and gateway address is when my downstream speed dropped about 590kbps to 720kbps depending on if I'm running PPPoA or PPPoE. I know the former BellSouth Email accounts are being migrated to AT&T Yahoo Email.
Question... are there network changes also going on where IP addresses and gateways are being changed as part of the switch to AT&T Yahoo?
Reason I ask is that I changed my email password on AT&T Yahoo Mail website and had to also change the DSL password stored in my modem/ router. I don't get how Yahoo's email servers have to have the same password as the FastAccess Internet servers. Makes me think these accounts are now being fully setup as AT&T Yahoo Internet Service, instead of FastAccess DSL Service. Why would Yahoo webmail server care about the DSL password in my DSL modem that interfaces with FastAccess network?
And I'm now on the ad-supported AT&T Yahoo Mail servers... just like the AT&T Yahoo DSL customers... but we are paying a higher price for our service than other states. Looks more and more like we are getting the same service as other states that sell "AT&T Yahoo DSL Service", but we are paying the higher rate for "FastAccess DSL Service", but it looks more and more like AT&T Yahoo.
Something ain't right with this. |
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NetFixer
Freedom is NOT Free
Premium
join:2004-06-24
Murfreesboro, TN
·Vonage
·AT&T Southeast
·Cingular Wireless
·AT&T CallVantage
| said by WantItFaster :
I changed my email password on AT&T Yahoo Mail website and had to also change the DSL password stored in my modem/ router. I don't get how Yahoo's email servers have to have the same password as the FastAccess Internet servers. Makes me think these accounts are now being fully setup as AT&T Yahoo Internet Service, instead of FastAccess DSL Service. Why would Yahoo webmail server care about the DSL password in my DSL modem that interfaces with FastAccess network?
Your AT&T PPPoE login credentials are the same as your primary email credentials, and your WiFi authentication credentials. This is authenticated by the same att.net RADIUS server whether you are checking email, connecting via DSL modem, connecting via analog dialup, or connecting via WiFi. This is so whether or not you have migrated to the ATT/Yahoo platform.
BellSouth used to allow you to set your primary email password to a different value than your PPPoE/Dialup password, but AT&T does not.
said by WantItFaster :
Something ain't right with this.
It may not be "right", but it is the way that AT&T implements login security.
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NormanS
Premium,MVM
join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
·Pacific Bell - SBC
| reply to WantItFaster
said by WantItFaster :
Reason I ask is that I changed my email password on AT&T Yahoo Mail website and had to also change the DSL password stored in my modem/ router. I don't get how Yahoo's email servers have to have the same password as the FastAccess Internet servers. Makes me think these accounts are now being fully setup as AT&T Yahoo Internet Service, instead of FastAccess DSL Service. Why would Yahoo webmail server care about the DSL password in my DSL modem that interfaces with FastAccess network?
It has been ever thus, since SBC negotiated the co-branding agreement with Yahoo!. Do keep in mind:
SBC bought AT&T, so whatever SBC policies were, AT&T policies now are.
The original name of the co-branded service was, "SBC Yahoo! DSL Service". The new name of the co-branded service is, "at&t Yahoo! HSI".
So far, the local Bellsouth transit network has not been changed to reflect the former SBC Internet Services (SBCIS) way; including how the aggregation routers are set up. The two are different Autonomous Systems.
And ...
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~Oh Lord, why have you come
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GTFan
join:2004-12-03
| reply to Airwolf7
I'm seeing the same thing OP is seeing - a little over a month ago I was getting over 6mbps, now it's capped at 5.8 (I test speed at the ATL speakeasy site once a week or so). I'm just west of Atlanta and I think it has to do with U-verse rollout as suspected by others. |
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