at&t internet sucks

[fralexandr]

paying for 6mbit and getting 4.9 sigh. originally i was getting pretty close to 6mbit but it just keeps getting slower . should just get charter but its kinda expensive.

edit:

It sounds like your phone line actually sucks. If you're getting 4.9, you're probably on a 5200K profile, which is what they put you on if you're not close enough to the central office to get a strong enough signal.

Call ATT tech support and have them check your provisioned speed and your relative capacity. If your capacity is near 100%, see if they can put your circuit on "Interleave". This mode will increase latency a bit, but stabilize the circuit and possibly give you better performance.

i think it is a problem fixable by interleaving, as i'm getting 40.9 downstream attenuation, but when i called tech support and asked if they could set up interleaving on the line, the guy essentially called me a noob and said i set up my router wrong... sigh :\ he didn't even set up the line interleaving. I think this also might be why i sometimes get page will not load errors and have to refresh, and my modem has so many unrecoverable errors :S
Statistics
Collected for 18 days 0:15:06
Since Reset Current 24-Hour Interval Current 15-Minute Interval Time Since Last Event
ATM Cell Header Errors: 7778 23 0 2:31:43
ATM Loss of Cell Delineation: 1287 2 0 7:31:25
DSL Link Retrains: 12 0 0 1 day 13:11:18
DSL Training Errors: 1 0 0 18 days 0:14:38
DSL Training Timeouts: 0 0 0 0:00:00
DSL Loss of Framing Failures: 21 0 0 1 day 13:11:19
DSL Loss of Signal Failures: 21 0 0 1 day 13:11:19
DSL Loss of Power Failures: 0 0 0 0:00:00
DSL Loss of Margin Failures: 21 0 0 1 day 13:11:19
DSL Cumulative Errored Seconds: 7175 42 0 0:04:41
DSL Severely Errored Seconds: 64 0 0 1 day 13:11:19
DSL Corrected Blocks: 0 0 0 0:00:00
DSL Uncorrected Blocks: 12629 44 0 0:04:41
ISP Connection Establishment: 6 6 6 3:59:21

also i can't seem to figure out how to format the columns on this D:, it looks so ugly like that. if someone could tell me how (and it's easy) that'd be nice, thanks.

 

[zanejohnson]

dsl ftl...

i pay 40 bucks a month for a 10/10 cable connection....

 

[amdhunter]

I thought this was an iPhone thread. Internet on my iPhone is pretty nice. Its making calls that sucks...lol

 

[fralexandr]

charter 10/2 costs 50$ here and i think thats only an introductory pricing, at&t's 6/768k is 35$

 

[jme5343]

I've never seen over 3.5 on my Qwest 7 Mbps connection.

 

[Newbian]

Better then paying for for a 500 gb hard drive and not being able to use the entire 500 gb...

 

[xanis]

I thought this was an iPhone thread. Internet on my iPhone is pretty nice. Its making calls that sucks...lol

Really? I've only owned my iPhone for ~2 weeks and I haven't had any issues with calls.

 

[zerocool84]

Really? I've only owned my iPhone for ~2 weeks and I haven't had any issues with calls.

Maybe you're in one of the few places in the country with good AT&T reception but if you've ever read the internet you'd know how horrible AT&T's reception is.

 

[amdhunter]

Really? I've only owned my iPhone for ~2 weeks and I haven't had any issues with calls.

It's a hit and miss. There are some days I can't make a phone call for hours on end. Other days it works fine.

The internet is always fast as heck though...

 

[spidey07]

Do you have ANY IDEA how much of The Internet traverses ATT links? Residential service is not a big concern.

But do go on how those evil corporations are. I love these threads because I picture an 85 year old man shaking his fist at the power companies.

 

[adairusmc]

The 6mbit you pay for is a maximum speed, not an average or a minimum.


Cry more.

 

[thescreensavers]

42.95 here

 

[FelixDeCat]

 

[Kirby]

 

[datalink7]

 

[cronos]

I'm on ATT U-verse 6 Mb. I haven't had any problem with download speed, but I get repeated problems in websites domain name resolving. It's as if their DNS servers don't cache any request at all and every single time they have to look it up all over again (which sometimes fail so I had to do a quick refresh where it will then be successful).

This is very annoying, and afaik I can't switch to OpenDNS or Google because of the way U-verse connection is setup so I'm stuck like this :twisted:

 

[rudder]

This is very annoying, and afaik I can't switch to OpenDNS or Google because of the way U-verse connection is setup so I'm stuck like this :twisted:

Did they take admin rights from you on your PC?

 

[cronos]

Did they take admin rights from you on your PC?

No.

And yes, I know I can change the DNS on each interface manually (there are tons of internet connected devices at my home). What I can't do is change the DNS at the router (the way I've always done it before with Charter cable).

 

[AznAnarchy99]

I used att 6mbit for years and it was way better than time warner and their internet that would drop all the time.

 

[fralexandr]

I'm on ATT U-verse 6 Mb. I haven't had any problem with download speed, but I get repeated problems in websites domain name resolving. It's as if their DNS servers don't cache any request at all and every single time they have to look it up all over again (which sometimes fail so I had to do a quick refresh where it will then be successful).

This is very annoying, and afaik I can't switch to OpenDNS or Google because of the way U-verse connection is setup so I'm stuck like this :twisted:

this happens to me too hah :S didn't think it was that common though

 

[0roo0roo]

so far no throttling so thats the only plus.

 

[TuxDave]

Maybe you're in one of the few places in the country with good AT&T reception but if you've ever read the internet you'd know how horrible AT&T's reception is.

Portland and San Jose work well for me. Never had an issue with call reception. I do notice that I get a 3G connection a lot easier in Portland than San Jose (sometimes I get dropped to EDGE)

 

[mrSHEiK124]

 

[fralexandr]

 

[fstime]

29.99 Optimum Service bundled with 15.99 nationwide VOIP.

Uploading a lot of stuff via ftp which is why im guessing the upload is so low.