That was then... This is NOW!

[KurtCS]

That was then...



This is NOW!!...



Sad, eh?

Should I switch to DSL or should I stay with piece of sh&t AT&T (attbi.com) for a little while??

cheers,
Kurt

[KurtCS]

I just went to DSLReports and took speed test for like 2 minutes ago at 1:37am PST.




Bleh!



Heh,
Kurt...

[attbisbad]

Well, if you can't live with those speeds. My advice is to start looking for another ISP now. ATT has made no reference that they will be alotting extra downstream bandwith in the future. These are the set caps of their new network.

I can't even get steady streams from fast sites. (that I had downloaded steadily at 390k+\sec)

Speed goes up, gets knocked down..
goes up.. gets knocked down.

Wishing you and all of us frustrated attbi users luck in finding new ISP's,

attbisbad

P.S.
Maybe if there are enough of us out there - ATT will have to take notice when we leave for other ISP's.

[KurtCS]

Well, I have been downloading lots of MP3 craps.. And now, I am still not getting used to it.. It took me forever and even worse than 28.8k.. Like about 5 megs, it took me overnight so I was like oh hell with it and let it go.. Heh, man, I wish I can afford for having OC-3!

Kurt...

[Dakota]

Don't judge your speeds on mp3's from a p2p source. That's never reliable and the speeds vary so much. You could have OC8 and still get 128kbps if your source is slow.

Judge your speeds from several tests at different times from a reliable, known test source, and from a reliable, known FTP server.

[ispark]

Originally posted by BlueJetta
Don't judge your speeds on mp3's from a p2p source. That's never reliable and the speeds vary so much. You could have OC8 and still get 128kbps if your source is slow.

Judge your speeds from several tests at different times from a reliable, known test source, and from a reliable, known FTP server.

Instead of just saying to download from a "known" test sources and a "known" ftp server.
Why don't you provide a "known" test source url and a "known" ftp server ip??

[Dakota]

Originally posted by ispark


Instead of just saying to download from a "known" test sources and a "known" ftp server.
Why don't you provide a "known" test source url and a "known" ftp server ip??

Because it varies for everyone depending on your location. What is a reliable, known test source, and a reliable, known FTP server for me, might not be for you.

BTW: You left out the most important term in your 'loose' quote. Reliable.

Now, if you want to know what I use; for a speedtest site: DSLReports and an FTP site; HappyPuppy.

[legalmind]

Cox in Phoenix sent us an update and it appears they are building a new kick a-- service!
Plus all customers will be getting a set up kit by UPS and still be able to access @home for a short while, while changing over.
This will help us to not lose any email while changing over.
Kind of sounds like our speeds will be even better!
It appears so far that they are doing a great job with the @home mess.

[ispark]

Originally posted by BlueJetta


Because it varies for everyone depending on your location. What is a reliable, known test source, and a reliable, known FTP server for me, might not be for you.

BTW: You left out the most important term in your 'loose' quote. Reliable.

Now, if you want to know what I use; for a speedtest site: DSLReports and an FTP site; HappyPuppy.

Thats all I was asking.
Just provide some url's and ip's to test with

If one has bad speed from, say wetback ftp server, they might get kick _ss speed from, say happypuppy ftp server.

BTW, is their not a "known, reliable" anykind of server that kicks _ss for all "high bandwidth" people?

[Dakota]

Depends on your path to their servers. It's impossible to have one server equally accessible with equal speeds to the entire planet. One of the fastest servers I have been on are the Macromedia FTP servers. Whew! Smokin! I was getting 700-800 average with several sustained spikes (10-15 seconds) over 1 megabyte!

But, that was before @home went sour...

Ahhhhhh, the good old days.