callihn
join:2008-10-24
| reply to NormanS
Re: Is Elite supposed to be this slow? And login for email setup
said by NormanS  :There is a 15% overhead between PPPoE and ATM circuits. So the theoretical maxim speed you should expect for Elite would be 5113.6 kb/s down and 652.8 kb/s up. You are not far off the calculations, so you look like your speeds are about as good as you can expect. So, you mean they are actually sooo greedy at ATT that they don't add that 15% back on so you can reach your max like Comcast does?
That's ridiculous!
So, if I'm getting 12+Mbps/2.5+Mbps on Comcast for $42.95 and they have already defined excessive usage at 250Gb/month, while ATT DSL on the other hands gives me 4.926Mbps/684.34kbps and a mysterious "excessive bandwidth usage" term for $35.00, could someone please tell me exactly why anyone would want ATT DSL over Comcast?
Is there some redeeming quality I've yet to discover?
Doesn't work, maybe because I closed the page when I meet Yahoo asking yet again for all of my personal information, I never liked or used Yahoo, nothing personal I guess, I'm just not a big portal fan.
I guess I'll have to get that fixed if I decide to keep the service and at this point it's looking grim for DSL.
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NormanS
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join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
 ·Pacific Bell - SBC
| said by callihn :So, you mean they are actually sooo greedy at ATT that they don't add that 15% back on so you can reach your max like Comcast does? That's ridiculous! Not sure what "greed" has to do with it. Its not like they make more money by not overprovisioning the service, as some other DSL providers do it.
So, if I'm getting 12+Mbps/2.5+Mbps on Comcast for $42.95 and they have already defined excessive usage at 250Gb/month, while ATT DSL on the other hands gives me 4.926Mbps/684.34kbps and a mysterious "excessive bandwidth usage" term for $35.00, could someone please tell me exactly why anyone would want ATT DSL over Comcast?
Is there some redeeming quality I've yet to discover?
If there is an "excessive bandwidth usage" cap, mysterious, or otherwise, I've never encountered it.
The only advantage of AT&T DSL over Comcast cable Internet it that there are lower priced tiers for lower speeds. If you already have Comcast TV, the difference between 'at&t Yahoo! HSI' Elite, and Comcast HSI is peanuts. If you have DirecTV (as I do), and an Internet price point south of $30 (as I do) 'at&t Yahoo! HSI' Pro is a significant savings over Comcast cable HSI + Basic TV.
Doesn't work, maybe because I closed the page when I meet Yahoo asking yet again for all of my personal information, I never liked or used Yahoo, nothing personal I guess, I'm just not a big portal fan.
I guess I'll have to get that fixed if I decide to keep the service and at this point it's looking grim for DSL.
Rumor has it that the AT&T Yahoo! partnership is on the rocks. I sincerely hope so.
BTW, I don't use the Yahoo! Portal page; no real need for it. Other than account management. I don't even use 'smtp.att.yahoo.com'. It is useless as a "Smarthost". The main advantage, other than price, that I see with AT&T over Comcast, is that they are slightly more friendly about running servers (no explicit prohibition in the AUP/TOS), and less anal about port 25. While it doesn't seem so (AT&T blocks it initially, Comcast doesn't), AT&T will lift the block on request, while Comcast will impose a block on port 25 both ways, for apparently the least significant SMTP issue on the customer connection. And once Comcast has blocked you, good luck getting the block removed.
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