[SGVLUG] AT&T vs DSLExtreme offerings

[Dan Buthusiem]

You could try to push it higher, but 13 dB margin on the downstream doesn't
give you much room. Margins under 10 usually end up unstable and
intermittently drop sync. Was it AT&T's sales department upselling you?
Never trust sales after tech support tells you your limits.
On Sep 22, 2012 12:15 PM, "Jess Bermudes" <jbermudes at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>
>
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