Slow speeds after upgrading to 12 or 18 meg internet | XP OS in AT&T U-verse http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r23190576 en Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:30:06 EDT Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:30:06 EDT Re: Slow speeds after upgrading to 12 or 18 meg internet | XP OS http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23749009 sparks : well I got bootsed to 18M for free for 6 months and I got to spend this weekend trying to find out why my speeds sucked.

I was dl a 1G and an 8G file from my work that is more than fast enough to allow 14000 workers to serf the net...OH WAIT we are looking for information :)

Well after testing and changing settings in XP and programs and everything else I could think of I switched to 7 pro. SAME thing.

finally it started working....I am getting a solid 2.2MB dl speed.
I still don't know what is going on but I was surprised when it just started working....this is the strangest experience with a service I have ever seen.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23749009 Wed, 03 Feb 2010 15:14:02 EDT Re: Slow speeds after upgrading to 12 or 18 meg internet | XP OS http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23739704 robo_geek : Are these wired or wireless?

I get a full 10-11MBS on all my XP boxes.

Note that all the interfaces in the RG are bridged (HPNA, ethernet, WiFi). I have a Cisco AP so I shut off HPNA and Wifi in my RG. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23739704 Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:40:25 EDT Re: Slow speeds after upgrading to 12 or 18 meg internet | XP OS http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23702780 sparks : JNG can you post the settings that you used to fix this?

Have you tried dl some large files and does it maintain your thruput ?

I had the 12meg and it was impossible to dl a file over a gig without constant bouncing and ended up around 100Kb at the end.
Tried an 8GB file and it leveled out after about 10 minutes to 300Kb.

It starts off at 1.42MB then after about 20 seconds it is bouncing from 900KB to 300KB then another 20 seconds its 300KB to 1 KB.

they just gave me free 18MB to try and its worse.

BUT the stupid speed test show wow speeds.
big deal

uverse test in dallas.
Download = 14.271 Mbps
Upload = 1.485 Mbps

speakeasy in dallas
Download = 16086 kbps
Upload = 1472 kbps]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23702780 Mon, 25 Jan 2010 22:56:47 EDT Re: Slow speeds after upgrading to 12 or 18 meg internet | XP OS http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23694731 nishiko7 : TexZenFool,

Yes, a real "Duh!" moment for me. Sorry.

But I bet there's other people who didn't bother reading that, so this is good of you to point out and for all of us to note.

This reminds me about a story I heard (I think from a teacher) about the test that was handed out that had instructions at the very top instructing to turn the test in and leave class (college). The majority of students supposedly didn't see that, so unnecessarily took the test.

Great reminder about instructions and reading, for crying out loud. Good grief!

Best,
Alan]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23694731 Sun, 24 Jan 2010 13:57:40 EDT Re: Slow speeds after upgrading to 12 or 18 meg internet | XP OS http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23694404 TexZenFool : I use speedtest.net also but just tried the AT&T speed test. Noticed the following disclaimer on the report.

"Thank you for using AT&T's Speedtest! Please note that our Speedtest estimates your upstream and downstream speeds for Internet services of up to 6 Mbps. If you subscribe to a service of greater than 6 Mbps, then your Speedtest results may not be as accurate. Speedtests for services of greater than 6 Mbps are currently under development, so check back soon!"

So by their own admission the AT&T test does not work for speeds above 6MB.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23694404 Sun, 24 Jan 2010 12:20:28 EDT Re: Slow speeds after upgrading to 12 or 18 meg internet | XP OS http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23694333 nishiko7 :
Yeah, when I was on 6 Mbps, Speakeasy was great for me too. Apparently they MAY have issues over 10 Mbps in the Bay Area at least?

I just ran the at&t one again, using the Chicago server, just to double-check... here is the results:
Download = 4.750 Mbps
Upload = 1.488 Mbps

And this using the San Francisco server:
Download = 4.769 Mbps
Upload = 1.459 Mbps

Pretty lame. I think that at&t site may have only been set up to support their standard DSL (as that only went up to about 5.5 Mbps real world anyway).

In contrast, here's my speedtest.net results:


Thanks for the feedback, nwrickert!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23694333 Sun, 24 Jan 2010 12:00:19 EDT Re: Slow speeds after upgrading to 12 or 18 meg internet | XP OS http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23694293 nwrickert : I'm only on the 6 mb/s plan. Here are some speed test results (all with Chicago servers):

speakeasy: 5707/946
speedtest: 5710/950
at&t test: 5451/952
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AT&T Uverse; Zyxel NBG334W router (behind the 2wire gateway); openSuSE 11.0; firefox 3.0.16]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23694293 Sun, 24 Jan 2010 11:48:12 EDT Re: Slow speeds after upgrading to 12 or 18 meg internet | XP OS http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23694245 nishiko7 :
said by gdm See Profile :

Use these two sites to verify speedtests. Check the two closest cities. I prefer speakeasy right now over AT&T's servers.

»www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/

»helpme.att.net/dsl/speedtest/
Speakeasy used to be my favorite too, but after I upgraded from the 6 Mbps to the 12 Mbps plan, Speakeasy never gave me readings over 10 Mbps. That's when speedtest.net became my new favorite, because it's always dead-on accurate, at least for me. I don't know if it's some regional issue with Speakeasy or what. Does anyone else experience this problem with Speakeasy. If nothing else, I imagine other UVerse users from the Bay Area do.

As for the AT&T site, that was completely awful. Even picking the nearest server, it gave me a reading of like 5 Mbps down (up was much closer to actual), which is just plain crazy. I tested again with speedtest.net, and sure enough, dead on accurate.

Like I said, anyone else with similar experience. I'm using XP and never done the TCP tweaks, so that could have something to do with it, but I don't know why speedtest.net measures correctly without the tweaks if that's the case.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23694245 Sun, 24 Jan 2010 11:35:10 EDT Re: Slow speeds after upgrading to 12 or 18 meg internet | XP OS http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23526178 JNG : I used the same RWIN recommendations for my Vista machine and used that on my XP laptop and that fixed the problem. The RWIN settings for XP did not work.

Problem solved....]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23526178 Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:19:11 EDT Re: Slow speeds after upgrading to 12 or 18 meg internet | XP OS http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23522660 gdm : I'd start a new thread. In that thread post what the tweak test results showed from here. What do you have the RWIN set to? Lastly are you sure you changed the RWIN on the correct adapter? Sometimes Dr. TCP has drop down for various adapters.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23522660 Mon, 21 Dec 2009 01:01:50 EDT Re: Slow speeds after upgrading to 12 or 18 meg internet | XP OS http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23522428 JNG : Sure did and also the RG.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23522428 Sun, 20 Dec 2009 23:34:03 EDT Re: Slow speeds after upgrading to 12 or 18 meg internet | XP OS http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23522312 gdm : Did you restart the pcs after you applied the Dr tcp settings?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23522312 Sun, 20 Dec 2009 23:06:57 EDT Re: Slow speeds after upgrading to 12 or 18 meg internet | XP OS http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23522117 JNG : I have a problem where I'm only getting 5 megs from multiple servers on my 12 meg connection on my XP laptop. All the Vista laptops are running at the full 11.5 megs. I tried the DR TCP advice without any success. Also, this 5 meg limit occurs on a another older xp laptop also. It looks like windows XP is limiting download speeds somehow?

Anyone have a suggestion to fix this?

Thanks,

JNG]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23522117 Sun, 20 Dec 2009 22:16:49 EDT Re: Slow speeds after upgrading to 12 or 18 meg internet | XP OS http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23484048 Stollen : free offer to upgrade to 18 mb? so how much do you pay now for the internet without tax? and for how long is the offer?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23484048 Sun, 13 Dec 2009 20:05:25 EDT Re: Slow speeds after upgrading to 12 or 18 meg internet | XP OS http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23240043 gdm : You won't see greater than 18megs, 17.8 is the max you'll see. Same with the upload it will be just below 1.5. The upload is the same on the 12 & 18.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23240043 Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:28:57 EDT Re: Slow speeds after upgrading to 12 or 18 meg internet | XP OS http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23240020 ceb39 : I started out with 12 MBs in September and then was talked into 18 MBs this month. I used the Speakeasy test before and after the change and saw no difference in speed.

I live in the San Francisco Bay Area and have never seen a download speed greater than 17.8 MBs, upload is a little less than 1.5MBs no matter which city I try.

Once the free offer to upgrade to 18MBs in over, I will drop it.

ceb39]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23240020 Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:22:48 EDT Slow speeds after upgrading to 12 or 18 meg internet | XP OS http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23190576 gdm : Seems that some XP OS machines are not getting the full speed after upgrading from ADSL or lower speed tier U-Verse. If you upgrade to the 12 or 18 meg package and see slow speeds.

Use these two sites to verify speedtests. Check the two closest cities. I prefer speakeasy right now over AT&T's servers.

»www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/

»helpme.att.net/dsl/speedtest/

Also run a tweak test here on BBR - »/tweaks make sure to put 12000 or 18000 in the speed. You can use DSL for type of service.

Basically what will be needed is download of Dr. TCP on the tweak page. Increasing your RWIN value for the network card you use to connect to the RG so wireless or wired. Save the settings and reboot the device.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23190576 Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:18:08 EDT