Seriously? FF is telling me a 3.8MB file would take me ~20 minutes to download when I started it. This is pro speed DSL? Um.. right… I could get faster downloads on a 56K dial-up I think right now. Most of Web 2.0 is useless to me at the moment. Hell, most of the web is useless to me at the moment.

Last I checked I had 320 Kb/s down, 413 Kb/s up. My pro DSL is supposed to be 3.0 Mb/s down, 512 Kb/s up. 320 Kb/s down, 413 Kb/s up isn’t even basic DSL speeds.

I ditched dial-up 10+ years ago because it was slow… No way in hell I’m tolerating this. If it’s not fixed by tomorrow AT&T is getting a phone call from me. (I’ve already submitted a complaint via DSLR’s AT&T Direct forum.)

I wonder if AT&T is messing with packets… Could be a strong case for why we need net neutrality in this country?!

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So this evening, my DSL has slowed to a crawl. I mean, I’m almost getting down to dial-up speeds… ok, so maybe not that slow, but still.

I did some DSLreports.com speed tests:

To Speakeasy NYC
d 316 Kb/s
u 404 Kb/s
l 68 ms

To Broadstar, Miami
d 292 Kb/s
u 396 Kb/s
l 84 ms

To NAC NJ
d 247 kb/sKB/s
u 355
l 75 ms

Those numbers are NOT typos. I’m actually getting more UP than down right now.

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So this morning I go to get on the internet and guess what… No connection. I’ll spare you the boring details but what it came down to was that my AT&T e-mail address had become unregistered from their system for God only knows what reason.

The nice friendly tech on AT&T Yahoo chat (thanks to whatever public wifi I was on!) was able to get things fixed, but only after 3 of them helped me because the public wifi kept flaking.

-Adam

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