zippy fast
join:2004-02-18
1 edit | Official Bay Area slowdown thread
Has there been any official word on any Bay Area speed problems? There seem to be several very active threads ongoing in the direct forum, and people continue to have problems. I myself have had my dsl line for several years now, and this has really been the only time that I've seen a problem like this persist for this long. Just looking for some official information. |
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herkulease
join:2003-05-20
San Jose, CA | Re: Anything official concerning Bay Area slowdowns?
same here. I speak highly of pacbell/sbc. Never had any issues with them for 6/7 years until now.
I have a trouble ticket open, hopefully something will happen.
they should atleast update the system status page or something. |
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TheDSLer
@pacbell.n
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Re: Anything official concerning Bay Area slowdown
Yeah, these nightly slowdowns have been going on for a while now and it's really annoying. My DSL has been great for the last few years until this prolonged speed problem. Tried contacting SBC, but all I ever get is the try to restart the modem, reboot this or that, and when's all said and done I get a "Ah well sorry, but you're still within your range (albeit right at the minimum) so we really don't have to fix the problem". Frustrating to say the least. |
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ftthz
If love can kill hate can also save
join:2005-10-17 | we'll see what happans i guess if i wanted an unstable connection i could go with comcast and get faster overall speed with the same slow downs during peak hrs |
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zippy fast
join:2004-02-18
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Re: Anything official concerning Bay Area slowdowns?
I've enjoyed speeds of around 600Kb since the expert plus package a while back, but now I'm seeing speeds around 200 or less, even 80 last night! I just checked my speed this morning, it's functioning at top speed, so I know it's not my end of things. I realize it was a long weekend, so let's see what happens this week. |
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herkulease
join:2003-05-20
San Jose, CA | this morning my speeds went back to normal but I still have my afternoon slow down issue.
Its not as bad was it was this weekend when it was the whole day but still unacceptable.
tech support got no where said its all fine. |
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zippy fast
join:2004-02-18
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It's nearly 9pm and my speeds have dropped down to the 120K range, this is bizarre. In the 2+ years I have had Expert +, it has never been below the 580-600K range, except when my phone line was torn off the pole during a storm. I really don't see much help in calling SBC just yet, there is never a problem with the line on their end. (This is the canned response I got when my phone line was laying on the street last winter!) Hopefully some of the techs who hang around here can offer some insight as to the multitude of problems in the Bay Area. |
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ws
Premium
join:2000-01-02
I'm here
clubs: 
| After get back from work around 8PM, I have no connectivity at all.
Router PPPoE takes forever to Authenticate and once authenticated, SLOW or no internet.
Now seems everything back to normal.
I'm in Newark, CA
My speed dropped too
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TheDSLer
@pacbell.n
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Right, the slowdowns seem to appear during peak hours, and go back to normal speeds during offpeak hours (similar to cable). The main reason I got DSL in the first place was to avoid this issue, so it's a bit troubling that recently SBC DSL appears to suffer from this problem. |
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zippy fast
join:2004-02-18
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Re: Anything official concerning Bay Area slowdowns?
I'm only replying to this thread to acknowledge if the current repair work being done has affected the Bay Area, notably the East Bay. As of now, there is no apparent change in the slow speeds so I will continue to monitor and update when there is a change. |
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bichi
Premium
join:2000-08-18
Sunnyvale, CA | Re: Anything official concerning Bay Area slowdown
Sunnyvale, CA - 7:41~7:48pm PST - Jan 19, 2006
dsl.snfc21.sbcglobal.net
- did two SBC speed tests
- 1st: 1286/433
- 2nd: 2191/420
After 8days of slow upload speeds, fixed, sorta, kinda maybe? |
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herkulease
join:2003-05-20
San Jose, CA
| From the slew of posts we can easily see its happening during peak hours. Toaster or anyone else atleast give us some info rather take sbc's approach and say there's nothing wrong.
calling tech support is utterly useless. I get the same info. its looks fine to us. they can't answer why I'm getting such horrible speeds.
I'm supposed to be getting pro speeds. after a quick speed this this is what I"m getting.
720kbps down, 415kbps up
1/3 of what I paid.
utterly ridiculous. I hope you 6 meg people it isn't as bad. |
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peter_s
join:2004-09-28
San Jose, CA
1 edit | yeah this is getting real old.
2006-01-20 01:29:21 Speed test @ dslreports.linkline.com 402/438 kbps(10:30PM PST tonight)
2006-01-20 01:19:16 Speed test @ dslr-west1.megapath.net 574/424 kbps(10:20PM PST tonight)
2006-01-20 01:10:11 Speed test @ dslr-west1.megapath.net 757/427 kbps(10:10PM PST Tonight)
2006-01-18 03:30:24 Speed test @ dslr-west1.megapath.net 2441/421 kbps(12:30AM PST Wed. Morn)
2006-01-17 23:15:10 Speed test @ dslr-west1.megapath.net 832/426 kbps(8:10PM PST Tues.)
2006-01-15 14:47:09 Speed test @ dslr-west1.megapath.net 2472/424 kbps (11:40AM PST Sunday)
Edit* Dr.Ping is in the 90s, it's usually low 70s high 60s. Getting tons of packet loss and re-xmits. Overall pretty crappy. |
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aeneas
join:2005-10-09
Half Moon Bay, CA | line is 6018/768
Tested 10:24pm 1-19-06
»www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/
Download Speed: 938 kbps (117.3 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 491 kbps (61.4 KB/sec transfer rate) |
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zippy fast
join:2004-02-18
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Re: Anything official concerning Bay Area slowdowns?
Once again, speeds are incredibly slow tonight. Right now I'm pulling down a 600meg patch that earlier in the afternoon would have been done in 15 minutes (at 600KB) but is now crawling along at 150KB. I realize the techs are looking at things, but what the hell actually happened? I keep hearing rumors of overloaded routers, but how did this happen all of a sudden, or has it been an issue and is now spilling over to everyone else? As I said before, there have been no notable speed issues with my DSL in the last 5+ years, until now. It's just insane, it's every night now. Calling the "service center" will either tell me there is no problem, or that I'm within my "contractual perimeters".
Could one of our resident techs fill us in on what's really going on, or what's being worked on? I know nobody wants to make promises that cannot be kept, but at least give some assurances that something is being done or moving forward. |
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Defcon888
Premium
join:2003-07-22
San Bruno, CA
 ·AT&T Yahoo
·DSL EXTREME
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Add me to the list of folks having slowdowns in the Bay Area.
Nightly slowdowns. Toaster has told me that SBC is working on it. So far, speeds have been 1.5Mbps or higher for me at night. Hopefully it'll be "fixed" soon.
Normal 2.6Mbps.
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Clowning
join:2005-04-30
San Francisco, CA | reply to zippy fast
Re: Anything official concerning Bay Area slowdown
Add me to the list too. I get a lot of disconnectivities. |
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eesser
join:2003-11-07
Santa Clara, CA | reply to Defcon888
Re: Anything official concerning Bay Area slowdowns?
Add me to the list of nightly slowdown to 600-900kbps / 400kbps on a 3.0Mbps plan. Grrr. It was great this weekend, and it stinks again tonight. |
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noktekniq
join:2004-01-26
Millbrae, CA | Re: Anything official concerning Bay Area slowdown
i'm not with SBC but io'm with dslx and i've been experiencing some slow page load in bay area. note* my backbone is sbc |
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benjamonny
Premium
join:2006-01-11
Santa Rosa, CA | reply to zippy fast
Re: Anything official concerning Bay Area slowdowns?
Well, had great speed over the weekend, now just got back up from dead stop.
I am beginning to not like ATT/SBC/Yahoo DSL. |
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