[ale] dslreports

[Geoffrey]

Gregory McLean wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 2001-12-11 at 19:08, Geoffrey wrote:
> > Charles Marcus wrote:
> > >
> > > Uhh..
> > >
> > > Bellsouth upload speed is 256k - but good to know about speedfactory - thanx
> >
> > If you note, they tell you that's the max speed.  NONE of the dsl
> > providers I've ever talked to will commit to any speed guarantee.
> 
> Actually Bellsouth has throttles on the connections.. The goofed up one
> weekend (and quickly corrected the oversight, dammit)

Regardless, I've yet to get any provider to give other than a maximum. 
Ask yours for a minimum and see what they say.

> 
> Jul 21 17:52:18 tweetie Speedmgmt[1580]: Modem initialised at 6144
> kbit/s downstream and 640 kbit/s upstream
> 
> Sure would have been nice to leave it at that...
> 
> Greg
> 
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