[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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