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Seriously? I guess the question is, does anyone have an dial-up AOL account I could borrow? I think it’d be faster than my DSL right now.

-Adam

Technorati Tags AT&T, dsl

So it looks like they’re back. This morning I tried to check my e-mail and GMail freaked on me and told me that I was on a slow connection, at which point it reverted me to HTML view. Ewwww… Do you know how bad GMail is on HTML mode?

I ran tests on DSLR and here’s what I got…

Before router reboot:

After router reboot:

So who knows. I posted on DSLR’s AT&T Midwest forum to see if anyone else is having issues and if I get no bites there, I might re-open my thread on the DSLR AT&T Direct forum. The guy did say to post again if the problem crept back up.

Technorati Tags AT&T, dsl

What: Jonathan Coulton w/ Paul & Storm
Where: Majestic Theater - Madison, WI

I saw Jonathan Coulton in concert last night. It was a really good show, though I could have done with-out the idiots who were opening for him. It was a mixed bag of songs I knew, and songs I didn’t, which is good. For those asking, yes, he did play “Still Alive” and I have a feeling that 90% of the crowd only knew him because of that song, despite having several viral videos as well as numerous mentions on the various TWiT podcasts.

A few highlights:

1. He asked “Does anyone in the audience have a power adapter for a 12in. Powerbook?” Normally, there’d be no one who did, but some chick up in the balcony DID have one at the show.
2. In the middle of a song he was performing using a sample machine, he inserted “Never Gonna Give You Up”, there-by “Rick Rolling” the crowd.
3. The openers asked if anyone had a 20 sided dice. I couldn’t count how many people did.

All-in-all, it was a very good show, and I’d highly recommend seeing him in concert.

Technorati Tags concert, jonathan coulton, Madison, music, review

Seriously? FF is telling me a 3.8MB file would take me ~20 minutes to download when I started it. This is pro speed DSL? Um.. right… I could get faster downloads on a 56K dial-up I think right now. Most of Web 2.0 is useless to me at the moment. Hell, most of the web is useless to me at the moment.

Last I checked I had 320 Kb/s down, 413 Kb/s up. My pro DSL is supposed to be 3.0 Mb/s down, 512 Kb/s up. 320 Kb/s down, 413 Kb/s up isn’t even basic DSL speeds.

I ditched dial-up 10+ years ago because it was slow… No way in hell I’m tolerating this. If it’s not fixed by tomorrow AT&T is getting a phone call from me. (I’ve already submitted a complaint via DSLR’s AT&T Direct forum.)

I wonder if AT&T is messing with packets… Could be a strong case for why we need net neutrality in this country?!

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So this evening, my DSL has slowed to a crawl. I mean, I’m almost getting down to dial-up speeds… ok, so maybe not that slow, but still.

I did some DSLreports.com speed tests:

To Speakeasy NYC
d 316 Kb/s
u 404 Kb/s
l 68 ms

To Broadstar, Miami
d 292 Kb/s
u 396 Kb/s
l 84 ms

To NAC NJ
d 247 kb/sKB/s
u 355
l 75 ms

Those numbers are NOT typos. I’m actually getting more UP than down right now.

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