[SGVLUG] AT&T vs DSLExtreme offerings

[Jess Bermudes]

In what is apparently the opposite experience that most people have
with ISPs, AT&T seems to be able to offer me higher bandwidth than
resellers such as DSLExtreme. DSLExtreme currently says that I am only
capable of 3Mbps but AT&T seems to think I can go up higher to 6 IIRC.

According to my Modem, my line currently has the following stats:

Rx    Tx
=========

Rate: 3008, 512
ATTN DR: 3008, --
SNRM: 13.0, 21.0
LATN: --, --
SATN: 20.0, --
TP: --, 3.5

So who's right? Is AT&T just trying to sell me something that they
can't deliver? Has anyone else had similar discrepancies in service
availability?

If you want to see some more details, I've pasted the full technical
readout from the modem at http://pastebin.com/jbkQQvqn

 - Jess