Comments on: AT&T Pushes Broadband Download Speeds To 18 Mbps On U-verse

By: Cory

Cory — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 04:32:54 +0000

When i called att, they said they would provide me with 12mbps download and 2mbps upload, now when i go to a website that tests my download speed and upload speed i only get 6.65 down and 1.5 up

By: Marth

Marth — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 14:12:39 +0000

You are aware when DSL advertises 6mbps that equates out to 600ish KBps, right?

Big difference between megaBITS and megaBYTES

Learn it.

By: bob

bob — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:43:33 +0000

uhhh…that just doesn’t translate. 1Mb/sec is 1 mega-bit per second and you want to download a 1MB or 1 mega-byte file. Since 1B(yte)=8b(its) then it should take about 8 seconds to download a 1 MB file with 1Mb/sec service if you don’t count the overhead on the traffic. With the overhead, you are looking at about 10-12 seconds which is what you are seeing. Looks like they are providing what they claim. You people need to learn your terminology before you start bitching.

By: Chad Wagner

Chad Wagner — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 06:30:00 +0000

Thanks, I actually moved after like 2 months. I called them and they ran some network tests though, sent me to a site and it said I had like 10mbps/2mbps

Thing was, if I download a file using a tool like DAP, and add like 20 different downloads and split them into 4 pieces each, I can see the full bandwidth (my point being that they really weren’t giving me what they said). If I get 1mb/sec up stream, I would expect a 1MB file to take a second or so, not like 10-20 seconds as I was seeing.

Oh well, just wish upstream was faster… working from home, it sucks to get slow upstream

By: frank

frank — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 05:41:41 +0000

yea i have fios im on the 20/20 and it is FAST
i downloaded a 1 gig file from a fast server at 2.33 megs per second took 7 min 17 seconds
my upload is just as fast on anyday at anytime it dont matter my bandwith is mine LOVEEEEEEE ITTT
i can host games run servers fios rocks

By: Leefeller

Leefeller — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 18:00:52 +0000

Been using wildblue broadband for several years now, just checked my download via toast it ran at 1557 and upload at 369 kbs. I have the top package for $79.00 per month.

Until DSL shows up this is still the better way to go.

By: nick

nick — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 20:19:38 +0000

for chad…you should really contact att and try to get a premise tech out there…chances are you have a bad phone/network line in your house because i consistently get 5-6mbps with my uverse setup and 1.5-2mbps upload rate

By: Chad Wagner

Chad Wagner — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 18:08:59 +0000

I can tell you, I have the 6MBPS plan in San Diego, and I get:

downstream: 400-500kbps
upstream: 90-150kbps

They need to stop advertising 6mbps/1mbps (up) since every day is not even close to that. I work from home, so when I tell you the average above, that is really what I notice, day or night… they are capping me out, and I just became a customer from cox that switched over 3 weeks ago, and left that 1.2mbps/500kbps (up) that I was getting from COX.

By: Jared

Jared — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 18:18:47 +0000

This article states that you can get this package at a stand alone rate, but when I called they said I needed the TV service. What the crap?

By: tito

tito — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 03:14:28 +0000

ya.. I agree with Diamonds… because not all place have this service, like my place not have this service.

By: Diamonds

Diamonds — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:55:01 +0000

Not all places have this service, I’ve been trying to get their line at my place for 3 years and still no good.

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By: Punish Stone

Punish Stone — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 22:05:51 +0000

This just makes me miss Japan. I just left and came back to the states this summer. I had a 47Mbps line for the equivalent of $38 and only experienced 1 outage during the 3 years I had it.

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By: Lew Thomas

Lew Thomas — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 20:15:13 +0000

Had Uverse tv and internet for 3 months this year. Finally had to drop the TV part of the service, extemely unreliable using their dvr. Internet worked well though. Never had a problem with that part.

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By: matt

matt — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 19:25:57 +0000

so if they keep the 150Gb bandwidth cap, that means you can use Uverse for 2hours and 20min at peak speed?

Does anyone know if Uverse will be immune to the BW caps under “test” at AT&T?

By: Jonathan Patterson

Jonathan Patterson — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 19:08:57 +0000

I have U-Verse TV and internet service. It’s pretty cool. I wonder if my internet speed will increase even if I don’t change to a higher service plan. I think I have the middle plan.

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By: Sean M

Sean M — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:29:36 +0000

My boondocks-ish corner of the Dogpatch in SF might soon be getting U-Verse, and I can’t wait. We’re so far from the CO that DSL is ridiculously slow and Comcast isn’t out here…when I moved out here I was amazed SF even had such dead zones.

For a guy who makes his living on the web I go home to a connection as slow as what I had in the late 90’s.

By: tom

tom — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:28:25 +0000

The telecom companies are still fighting against net neutrality and are loooking into bandwidth caps so wahats the point of adding all this capacity if you only intend to gimp yourr customers service?

By: NoodleGei

NoodleGei — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:26:11 +0000

Your infrastructur sucks …*g*

My Hometown (Cologne, Germany) IS-Provider build since over 1year a 100Mbit-Infrastructure, This rocks …

By: Al

Al — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:15:57 +0000

18mbps? Uh-yeah, just like they advertise their Ultra DSL downloads at 6mbps but are really like 2mbps.

By: Crazyglues

Crazyglues — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:40:29 +0000

still too slow… they need to catch up to Verizon’s FIOS service 20 mbps up and 20 mbps down baby… That’s the sweet spot.

But 18 / 1.5 is not really bad either.

Wish Time Warner could catch up to those guys.

By: UVERSE HATER

UVERSE HATER — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:39:02 +0000

So I got uverse installed at my place last saturday and it was amazing. The service looked great and all but sunday night it went down then it came back just to go down for good! My uverse after 2 weeks has worked for a total of 3 days. Good luck getting consistant service, at least in GA.