Slow @home uploads

[dmw16]

I have had @home for about 2 years now and on a whole I have been very happy with the service. However, I have noticed that my upload speed has been pretty slow. I used to be able to send a 4MB mp3 in a little over a minute or so through IM, but now it just says something like "19004 minutes remaining." So at first I figured that it was IM, but then i tried running and FTP server and having another friend(who is at college)download from me and same results. So whats going on? Im running windowsXP, but this problem existed before I upgraded, so I dont think it's that. I dont really feel like paying $45 a month for crumby uploads like that. I was thinking of calling them up, but I doubt they can do much for me over the phone. Maybe I should switch to DSL. I know that DSL is theoretically slower than cable, but I have heard it is more consistent in the speed that it delivers. Any thoughts on any of this?
thanks,
-doug

 

[aug1516]

I guess its due to the recent events with excite@home. Your lucky that you had great upload speeds at one time. For at least a year ATT@home has capped everyones upstream to 128kbs. It looks like whichever company you are with decided to cap their service as well.

 

[jere01]

I have had @Home for a few years now.. can't remember how many off hand. When I first received it.. and for a couple of years after that the upload cap was at 128kbytes/s which was very nice. Just recently my cable has been capped at 64kbytes which, although still good, seems a lot slower than before. Lots of people have complained about this and @Home just says that they have too many users now and need to do this to evenly spread out the bandwidth.