[ale] DSL Upload Speed

[Jim Kinney]

I was surprised too. They do seem to only SLA their advertised rate so I'm
taking the higher speed as a bonus.

On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Andrew Wade <andrewiwade at gmail.com> wrote:

> Jim,
>
>
> "Comcast business class: 30M down, 23M up @ $65/mo."
>
> I saw on Comcast's Business website,
> http://business.comcast.com/internet/plans.aspx,   they offer
> Download/Upload Speeds*** 12Mbps/2Mbps     for the $65 Internet only
> plan.   How did you find your $65/mo deal and is that a one year teaser
> rate?
>
>
> Andrew
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 3:05 PM, Tavarvess Ware <tavarvessware at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I was lucky when I was with ATT I was getting the 6 meg service with 512
>> while I was getting on average 7 and 512 consistently.  It really
>> depends on your area and fiber to node and fiber to home for ATT (I use
>> to be a Manager at the retail level when they started supplying Uverse
>> and pushing it in stores).  I switched to Comcast because I wanted more
>> speed available in my house, since Uverse wasn't in my area and I was
>> scared because of shared bandwidth and uptime, but I have been pretty
>> satisfied, I have only been down like 2x in 2+years and I am paying for
>> 16mb and getting 21-24 down and 4-5 up on residential even at peak hours
>> at night (I religiously check and will call if its under 16 :) ).  I was
>> terrified when they came out yesterday because I figured my signal was
>> bad on Sunday but its still kicking.  But for ATT when I did have it was
>> only down about the same amount of time, but it was easier to get
>> through support.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 2011-07-13 at 13:43 -0400, Pete Hardie wrote:
>> > Interesting - I'm stuck with the next-to-slowest DSL, but I've seen my
>> > upload speeds close in on 512Kbps at times.
>> >
>> >
>> > On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 13:04, Ronald Mellema <rmellema at exithere.com>
>> wrote:
>> > > It depends if you are testing upstream or downstream speed. For
>> downstream
>> > > speed the fastest is 6Meg but the typical upstream speed is usually
>> way
>> > > slower like a half Meg. Below is the advertised speed rates for the
>> fastest
>> > > AT&T DSL:
>> > >
>> > > Downstream Speed:  Up to 6.0 Mbps
>> > >
>> > > Upstream Speed:  Up to 512 Kbps
>> > >
>> > > On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Chris Fowler <
>> cfowler at outpostsentinel.com>
>> > > wrote:
>> > >>
>> > >> Can someone tell me the upload speed on the fastest AT&T DSL
>> offering?
>> > >> I'm having a hard time locating this.
>> > >>
>> > >> I am using Atlantic Nexus and I'm getting just shy under 500k using
>> > >> speedtest.net
>> > >>
>> > >> Chris
>> > >>
>> > >>
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