[ale] DSL Upload Speed

Wed Jul 13 15:55:28 EDT 2011

Or a bogus – supposedly some of the ISPs actually track when you go to speed testing sites and bump you up temporarily to make themselves look better.

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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Jim Kinney
Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 3:38 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] DSL Upload Speed

I was surprised too. They do seem to only SLA their advertised rate so I'm taking the higher speed as a bonus.
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Andrew Wade <andrewiwade at gmail.com<mailto:andrewiwade at gmail.com>> wrote:
Jim,

"Comcast business class: 30M down, 23M up @ $65/mo."
I saw on Comcast's Business website,  http://business.comcast.com/internet/plans.aspx,   they offer   Download/Upload Speeds* 12Mbps/2Mbps     for the $65 Internet only plan.   How did you find your $65/mo deal and is that a one year teaser rate?

Andrew

On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 3:05 PM, Tavarvess Ware <tavarvessware at gmail.com<mailto:tavarvessware at gmail.com>> wrote:
I was lucky when I was with ATT I was getting the 6 meg service with 512
while I was getting on average 7 and 512 consistently.  It really
depends on your area and fiber to node and fiber to home for ATT (I use
to be a Manager at the retail level when they started supplying Uverse
and pushing it in stores).  I switched to Comcast because I wanted more
speed available in my house, since Uverse wasn't in my area and I was
scared because of shared bandwidth and uptime, but I have been pretty
satisfied, I have only been down like 2x in 2+years and I am paying for
16mb and getting 21-24 down and 4-5 up on residential even at peak hours
at night (I religiously check and will call if its under 16 :) ).  I was
terrified when they came out yesterday because I figured my signal was
bad on Sunday but its still kicking.  But for ATT when I did have it was
only down about the same amount of time, but it was easier to get
through support.

On Wed, 2011-07-13 at 13:43 -0400, Pete Hardie wrote:
> Interesting - I'm stuck with the next-to-slowest DSL, but I've seen my
> upload speeds close in on 512Kbps at times.
>
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> On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 13:04, Ronald Mellema <rmellema at exithere.com<mailto:rmellema at exithere.com>> wrote:
> > It depends if you are testing upstream or downstream speed. For downstream
> > speed the fastest is 6Meg but the typical upstream speed is usually way
> > slower like a half Meg. Below is the advertised speed rates for the fastest
> > AT&T DSL:
> >
> > Downstream Speed:  Up to 6.0 Mbps
> >
> > Upstream Speed:  Up to 512 Kbps
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Chris Fowler <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com<mailto:cfowler at outpostsentinel.com>>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Can someone tell me the upload speed on the fastest AT&T DSL offering?
> >> I'm having a hard time locating this.
> >>
> >> I am using Atlantic Nexus and I'm getting just shy under 500k using
> >> speedtest.net<http://speedtest.net>
> >>
> >> Chris
> >>
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