Art Geek’s Comments

• Mar 25th, 2011 @ 9:30am

  Re: Up to...

  on If AT&T Puts A Meter On Your Broadband, But That Meter Is Grossly Inaccurate, Is That Meter Really There?
  It isn't a marketing tactic. The "up to" is there because of the inherent problems with the way DSL works.
  
  Attenuation, line quality, distance from the CO, even things like the jacks in your house can cause problems with speeds and connection.
  
  The company I work for doesn't throttle or cap, or meter bandwidth, we turn it up as fast as it can go. We offer up to 8 megs, I've seen people with 20megs.
  
  The question I have is if you get pro-rated for lower speeds does that mean you pay more if your speeds are higher?
• Mar 25th, 2011 @ 9:15am

  Re: Why bother metering?

  on If AT&T Puts A Meter On Your Broadband, But That Meter Is Grossly Inaccurate, Is That Meter Really There?
  Because it's not that simple. Many of the DSLAM's I've seen has maybe one or two DS3's going into them. So you might get a max of 89Megs. If you have 15 users on that card (usually it's much more) then you are in essence sharing that bandwidth. Upgrading the routers won't do anything if you don't have the bandwidth to utilize it.
  
  They need to upgrade the bandwidth coming out of the CO. The cold hard truth is it's much cheaper for them to charge for bandwidth, than to upgrade the network.