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DFW Uploads

said by wheelzoff:

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Ok for the past month my upload speed from 7 pm until 12 am is crap, for example.

2002-11-18 20:41:09 Speed test (dfw.speakeasy.net) 1427/19 kbps

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reply to wheelzoff
my uploads have also seen better days.
»/speedtests/14···37681310
Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\>tracert www.attbi.com

Tracing route to www.attbi.com [204.127.202.8]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.123.254
2 11 ms 15 ms 17 ms 10.180.96.1
3 78 ms 80 ms 10 ms 12.244.113.33
4 11 ms 14 ms 29 ms 12.244.73.13
5 68 ms 14 ms 13 ms gbr5-p30.dlstx.ip.att.net [12.123.17.50]
6 * 10 ms 25 ms gbr3-p100.dlstx.ip.att.net [12.122.5.74]
7 27 ms 25 ms 25 ms gbr4-p40.attga.ip.att.net [12.122.3.38]
8 39 ms 44 ms 39 ms gbr4-p80.wswdc.ip.att.net [12.122.2.178]
9 42 ms 115 ms 45 ms gbr2-p20.phlpa.ip.att.net [12.122.2.86]
10 46 ms 95 ms 65 ms gar1-p370.phlpa.ip.att.net [12.123.137.25]
11 45 ms 56 ms 53 ms mdf1-gsr12-1-pos2-0.nyc3.attens.net [12.122.255.
166]
12 49 ms 50 ms 63 ms sccsbix11-3-1.attbi.com [63.240.64.54]
13 44 ms 45 ms 43 ms www.attbi.com [204.127.202.8]

Trace complete.

my pings vary from day to day so i never know what to expect when im playing games online.
[text was edited by author 2002-11-18 23:49:34]

reply to wheelzoff
I don't know my upload is working fine.

2002-11-15 00:03:41 Speed test (dfw.speakeasy.net) 1441/229 kbps
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Did you expect me to put something clever here?

Racer, try and do a test closer to around 8 pm, at 12 am it's nearly normal again but at 7 am it sure is good .

2002-11-19 08:27:08 EST: 1434 / 236
Your download speed : 1434336 bps, or 1434 kbps.
A 175 KB/sec transfer rate.
Your upload speed : 236071 bps, or 236 kbps.
Seems like broadband .. above the 1mbit barrier!
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I just tested mine (in Colleyville). Three test produced very different resutls. LA got 118 up, the Megapath showed 0 up, and NJ came in at 250. All this at 2245 Friday night.

reply to wheelzoff
2002-11-22 23:57:11 EST: 3353 / 328
Your download speed : 3353170 bps, or 3353 kbps.
A 409.3 KB/sec transfer rate.
Your upload speed : 328479 bps, or 328 kbps.
Seems like broadband .. above the 1mbit barrier!

everything seems fine over here in arlington, tx
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reply to wheelzoff
No consistency...
2002-11-23 04:35:50 Speed test (ec) 3044/322 kbps
2002-11-21 22:23:06 Speed test (ec) 2267/188 kbps
2002-11-21 22:00:51 Speed test (ec) 1596/12 kbps
2002-11-20 02:34:26 Speed test (ec) 3070/353 kbps
2002-11-14 00:24:55 Speed test (ec) 3030/84 kbps

Are you running anything else in the background (file sharing)? Are you on the Ultralink or the Basic plan?
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I am on the regular plan myself and do run file sharing while I sleep a lot of the time (that way I'm not hurting everyone else's connection), but give us some credit, we are smart enough to turn them off when doing a speed test , although I can only say that for myself of course.
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"The Stars win the Stanley Cup, The Stars win the Stanley Cup" Ralph Strangis!!

Wheelz, I know you're cool. I was asking Ambergerin.
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reply to wheelzoff
at&t has no gurantee for uploads so if you did call tech support it would be to no avail..

No, they don't gurantee speeds, but I can still complain. If my uploads were at 200 then complaining is pointless, but they are in the 40's, and getting bad much earlier now, not just past 8pm.

2002-11-24 13:04:24 EST: 1440 / 46
Your download speed : 1440821 bps, or 1440 kbps.
A 175.8 KB/sec transfer rate.
Your upload speed : 46986 bps, or 46 kbps.
Your upstream result was very slow! .. not good
Seems like broadband .. above the 1mbit barrier!

But unless it starts affecting pings and download speed I won't waste my time calling.
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"The Stars win the Stanley Cup, The Stars win the Stanley Cup" Ralph Strangis!!

reply to DoubleT

said by DoubleT:

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Wheelz, I know you're cool. I was asking Ambergerin.

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Well, hey, you never know with some people.

Just covering all the bases, eliminating the obvious.
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reply to wheelzoff
2002-11-25 11:30:29 EST: 1431 / 78
Your download speed : 1431610 bps, or 1431 kbps.
A 174.7 KB/sec transfer rate.
Your upload speed : 78094 bps, or 78 kbps.
Seems like broadband .. above the 1mbit barrier!

At 10:30am CST, which is definately not peak time on a Monday. This is horrible. Isn't there a regulation _requiring_ them to provide at least 128kbit for it to qualify as broadband (in the upstream)? This has been going on for a while.

The state of Washington requires broadband to be above 200kb/s. I think they're the reason we all went up to 256.

But as far as I know, they're the only state that has that requirement.

Like it has been stated, AT&T doesn't guarantee speeds. If you were having packet loss or latency issues, then you could gripe.

Well, I guess you could gripe or maybe do an online chat session and just see what they say.

Also, take the speed test results with a grain of salt. According to the speed tests, I rarely approach my max upload. But in real world observation, I know that I am getting at or above what I'm supposed to be getting.
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Fear the hippo...

I use the speed tests to post here, but I often upload things to my attbi webspace at a whopping 4k/sec lol, that was how I noticed the slowdowns. Weird thing is I was using emule yesterday afternoon, and I had 6 uploads going at a total of 29k/sec, closed emule did a speed test and gave me a horrible upload. Then I uploaded a file to my webspace and it was going very slow as well. So it's almost like they do something to limit upload speeds in some way during busy times? Like you can only use so much speed per connection or something like that, I have no idea, just a thought.
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"The Stars win the Stanley Cup, The Stars win the Stanley Cup" Ralph Strangis!!

reply to wheelzoff
With speed tests, always take the highest result, due to possible line congestion at dif sites. Find a good one and stick with it. It states that on the test page.
And as far as complaining...I doubt youd get any help unless your problems stem from lack of system maintenance, for example: cleaning cache, temp files, cycling modem, swap files..etc. Im in Allen Tx and have been getting reasonable speed test results most of the time, (1400's-180's but online gaming suks. I actually got a test result of 1400's -negative 600. Can you even get a negative result?After 11 different calls to tech support, they admited a router issue an thier end. See tracert below:

Tracing route to www.yahoo.akadns.net [64.58.76.229
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 9 ms 15 ms 9 ms 10.180.0.1
2 11 ms 8 ms 10 ms 12.244.113.33
3 8 ms 10 ms 9 ms 12.244.73.9
4 10 ms 12 ms 14 ms gbr5-p80.dlstx.ip.a
5 * * * Request timed out.
6 31 ms 10 ms 12 ms ggr1-p340.dlstx.ip.
7 10 ms 12 ms 10 ms acr2-so-2-1-0.Dalla
8 24 ms 11 ms 35 ms agr3-loopback.Dalla
9 12 ms 39 ms 9 ms dcr1-so-0-2-0.Dalla
10 43 ms 44 ms 43 ms dcr2-loopback.Washi
11 52 ms 43 ms 47 ms bhr1-pos-0-0.Sterli
12 42 ms 41 ms 43 ms csr04-ve240.stng01.
13 46 ms 42 ms 43 ms 216.35.210.126
14 41 ms 41 ms 42 ms w8.dcx.yahoo.com [6
Trace complete.

The first level tech support will help you with the maintenance issues. If prob persists, they transfer you to second level support who can determine line issues. If they cant figure out the problem they forward the issue to network enginering. The second level tech support will not allow customers to talk to the upper level network techs who reall know whats going on. Ive been waiting over two weeks to hear from them. Im beginning to believe there are major problems with AT&T, due to over selling. And they are blowing smoke right up our asses.

reply to wheelzoff
heres some tests I just ran:

2002-11-25 17:18:25 EST: 1429 / 166 from net@access New Jersey

2002-11-25 17:20:28 EST: 833 / -459 from LinkLine LA download speed : 833239 bps, or 833 kbps.
A 101.7 KB/sec transfer rate.
Your upload speed : -459770 bps, or -459 kbps.
Your upstream result was very slow! .. not good

2002-11-25 17:22:00 EST: 1442 / 189 from Mega path SJC Cal

See the negative result on upload in the second test? Didnt know that was possible.