Comments on: AT&T Boosts DSL Speeds, Still SLOW!

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:46:22 +0000

I just canceled my “high” speed internet by AT&T 1.5mbps paying $34.99/month. For everyone reading this, never get this. It’s too slow!!

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 00:08:07 +0000

Haha, my mistake, I pay $35/month for alleged 256k/128k speeds (which is a complete joke). It’s $40 for 512k/256k, and an absolutely unbelievable $60 for 768k/512k, or what other companies consider STANDARD DSL SPEEDS. It’s as if Leach and his minions are living in some alternate reality where you can sit back and charge whatever you please for your far-below-average services. Screw FairPoint.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 23:48:16 +0000

Jim, sadly I also know all about “Fair”Point and their completely worthless business. In WNY I used to get Alltell DSL at 768kb/256kb for $30/month, which isn’t too bad — especially when it works all the time and at the advertised speeds. Now I’m outside of Albany, NY, in an area without cable lines, and DSL is the only choice. And for the same reason as you, I’m stuck with this ungodly connection through FairPoint. The best part is that the reason for only FairPoint being available is that they decline to share the telephone lines that they own with any other telco. Unreal. And to top it all off I pay $35 for their alleged 768kb/256kb package and have literally never had anything — be it http, ftp, bittorrent, etc. — move faster than 13kbps. Most useless customer service on the planet. People at the main office are clueless. The whole outfit is garbage. And I’m stuck with them.

By: aHa

aHa — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 19:39:55 +0000

Okay, to make u wonder, I tell u what we have to pay here in Dhaka, Bangladesh .

We have to pay $1100 USD for 1 Mbps line. Yes 11 hundred US dollar for 1 megabit connection.

This is so pathetic and I feel to die everytime I try to watch a Youtube video, It never loads .. and oh ya, I pay $15 USD for 96 kbps broadband(i rather call it narrowband) connection.

Now u figure how our country can develop in IT.

- A pathetic 23 yrs old computer programmer from Bangladesh

By: Ravi

Ravi — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 23:31:26 +0000

got comcast at home
15megabits down and 2.5megabits up (plan has 6megabits down and 1.5megabits up)
att @ work
5 megabits down and .5megabits up (plan has 6 mega bits down and 1.5megabits up)

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 18:08:18 +0000

Wow – I knew the rest of the developed world spanked the US on this, but from what I’m seeing here it seems the rest of the developed US spanks my region – I’m stuck with Fairpoint (no other options here). This Fairpoint region (like most of their regions) gives 768kb down/256kb up – that’s right, kilobits (not bytes) – for the tiny sum of $45 per month. Of course, Fairpoint recently purchased a small telco not far from here (Kinderhook, NY) – and there they offer 5mb/256mb for $40 per month, same company, but there’s competition there from the cable company.

Since we’ll never get cable here, Fairpoint gets to abuse it’s monopoly power all it wants :( at least it’s (mostly) better than dialup – when it’s working.

By: Norman

Norman — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 03:50:23 +0000

I use AT&T in Los Angeles and I’m getting about 5Mbps upload and 600kbps upload. My perceived speed went up appreciably when I upgraded from CAT-5 cable to CAT-6.

By: steve

steve — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 02:48:34 +0000

I’m with you Dan, I use Optimum with boost, and it is the best service i have had, and any of my friends have.

I average 28000kb/s down, an 4900kbs up, i don’t remember how much it costs, cause we also have cable, and i think we get a discount (we dont have the phone service), but even without the boost, you get like 20000kbs down (i think), i have boost so i can have port 80 open.

also, Optimum’s coustmer support is superb. I’ve had to call them a few times, and i always get a human, and i always get the problem fixed in under 30 mins. On one occasion, someone had to come to my house, and they came at the time i set up, and told me everything that needed to be fixed (i just needed a better cable running to my modem).

By: C David Dent

C David Dent — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 02:29:37 +0000

I am in MD and I have Verizon Fios. It is a reasonable $45 (ish) and I got it as part of a tv/phone/internet package that is still less than $100 a month. And that includes my “bump-up” in speed to their 15/2 bandwidth.

The DO block incoming port 80 (bummer) but that hasn’t stopped me. And they have given me some piddly amount of online storage (i think it is a gig or so) as part of the deal.

A LOT of folks in our neighborhood jumped to it as soon as it became available and dumped Comcast who had hiked their rate for slower/crappier service three times in 6 months.

By: Don Wilson

Don Wilson — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 21:44:36 +0000

L, I’ll move there for that kind of internet speed ;)