[GRLUG] AT&T's U-verse DSL service
Dave Brondsema
dave at brondsema.net
Thu May 19 08:00:59 EDT 2011
On 05/19/2011 01:18 AM, Bob Kline wrote:
> Curious. I have the 16 Mbps residential
> service, and the upstream rate is about
> 3.5 Mbps up, based on speedtest.net <http://speedtest.net>.
>
> I'd almost think an improvement of 10X
> is almost some kind of mistake on Comcast's
> part - it's hard to understand an improvement
> that big. You're in West MI?
Yep
>
> Re the modem, I currently have a DOCSIS 2.0
> cable modem owned by Comcast. What was
> involved in setting yours up?
My prior modem was owned also (not rented). I called them and told them
I had a new cable modem. I gave them the model & mac address. It's
possible they also optimized something on their end at that time also
which helped the speeds.
>
> -- Bob
>
>
> On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 12:04 AM, Dave Brondsema <dave at brondsema.net
> <mailto:dave at brondsema.net>> wrote:
>
> After upgrading my cable modem [1] I consistently get 9-10 Mbps upload
> speed with comcast residential (according to speedtest.net
> <http://speedtest.net>). It was
> only ~1 Mbps before that. The download speed increased a little bit too
> - but not nearly so significantly.
>
> [1] upgraded to Motorola SB6120 SurfBoard
> http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001UI2FPE
>
> On 05/18/2011 09:43 PM, Brad Becker wrote:
> > Running a web server favors more upstream bandwidth, so why
> > would download bandwidth be all that important when my guess is 2 Mbps
> > is around the best upstream anyone can get around here short of
> > commercial/business grade. Frankly I'd gladly give back 1/2 my
> download
> > bandwidth (most of it wasted) for 1 Mbps more on the upside. Few
> > servers can dish out the download bandwidth capability most people
> have,
> > but then again providers know this as their own form of throttling.
> >
> > On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 8:29 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com
> <mailto:mikemol at gmail.com>
> > <mailto:mikemol at gmail.com <mailto:mikemol at gmail.com>>> wrote:
> >
> > It'll really depend on if you're doing things like running a web
> > server, if you're making your own files available to yourself from
> > elsewhere (and where a service like DropBox is less
> appropriate), etc.
> >
> > For example, I might run rosettacode.org
> <http://rosettacode.org> <http://rosettacode.org>
> > from home if I had a
> > reasonable Internet connection for it. It'd be nice to not
> need to pay
> > twice as much per month just to have twice as much RAM
> available to
> > me.
> >
> > On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 7:02 PM, Jonathan Jesse
> <jjesse at gmail.com <mailto:jjesse at gmail.com>
> > <mailto:jjesse at gmail.com <mailto:jjesse at gmail.com>>> wrote:
> > > Perhaps a silly question but why the need for such high
> bandwidth?
> > I am a uverse customer with middle of the road level of Internet
> > connection and I don't notcie the lag getting my workmdone from
> > home, watching the occasional video on vimeo or YouTube. Netflix
> > runs fine as well for me.... Trying justify the cost of increased
> > bandwidth when I mostly do some streaming, lots of email and web
> > browsing and chatting on irc
> > >
> > >
> > > Sent from my iPad
> > >
> > > On May 18, 2011, at 5:08 PM, Adam Tauno Williams
> > <awilliam at whitemice.org <mailto:awilliam at whitemice.org>
> <mailto:awilliam at whitemice.org <mailto:awilliam at whitemice.org>>> wrote:
> > >
> > >> On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 16:29 -0400, Dan Pilcheck wrote:
> > >>>>> On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Matthew Seeley
> > <matthew at threadlight.com <mailto:matthew at threadlight.com>
> <mailto:matthew at threadlight.com <mailto:matthew at threadlight.com>>>
> > >>>>> wrote:
> > >>>>>> I have the 24m Uverse service in Jenison.
> > >>>>>> At first, it was excellent. Got 22m down on off hours, and
> > 18m down on
> > >>>>>> peak times. Was that way for the first two - three months.
> > >>>>>> Then, AT&T went door-to-door and signed up everyone in the
> > apartment
> > >>>>>> complex.
> > >>>>>> Now I only get 10m down on peak times, and 14m down on off
> > hours. (Even
> > >>>>>> when paying for the '24m' plan though)
> > >>> Bob (Et al.), Sorry if I'm taking this to far off topic
> for the
> > thread;
> > >>> What about Comcast Business at the home?
> > >>> IIRC its been touched on here, but I couldn't dig up anything
> > relevant.
> > >>
> > >> I had AT&T business class DSL to my home for a long time (this
> > includes
> > >> static IPs, a router, etc...). Performance was very good.
> > >>
> > >> But U-verse (which also includes TV) and a Linode is actually
> > cheaper.
> > >> You still get an always-on static IP hosts (the Linode)
> that isn't on
> > >> your power bill - and you can run server's without
> violating your
> > >> EULA.
> > >>
> > >> It is also quite handy to OpenVPN from
> > whatever-crappy-network-I'm-on to
> > >> the Linode.
> > >>
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