I don’t have cable TV, but I do have a landline phone so instead of cable internet, I have DSL. Well, lately it’s been dog-ass slow. And today I decided to check the speed out. We were cruising at a miserly 300kbps. Which, yes, is a lot faster than a modem, but it ain’t no high speed internet.
I decided to test a few more times and the best speed I got was a still an anemic 326kbps. Armed with this information I decided to call AT&T and give them what for about the lack of speed. Sadly, I was not able to give them what for… they found the problem and fixed it. I now am cruising at 1Mbps.
Wouldn’t it be nice if all computer related problems were that easy to fix? Wait… hold that thought. Erase it from your mind. My financial well-being depends on the complexity of these things. 😉
–sam
Cool. Thanks for the tip. 🙂
–sam
At least they were able to fix your problem, I had to switch back to cable because they couldn’t fix mine. Apparently the fiber in the ground in the 3/4 mile between me and the central office is damaged and there were no other available pairs to switch me to or they were too lazy to try.
Yeah, I was afraid that I was going to have to go through the same thing. I’m glad that I didn’t have to. 🙂
–sam