01.18.05
ADSL at 23,000 feet
Just got off the phone with a SBC technician. Nice guy at their call center in Saint Louis. Very knowledgable. He said he works from 1pm to 10pm at night. I was pretty suprised to get a call at 9pm for my dsl. I was getting about 250kb up and 260kb down. Technically I should be getting 384down, and 128up. really weird. I realized this a couple weeks ago when I was uploading some images and was getting better upstream than down stream. So in anycase, the dropped the upstream bandwidth, and now i got 311down, 108up. The important thing though, is that the latency is more consistent. Anywhere from 60-100ms. This sure beats the intermittent 3000ms i was getting before.
I’ve had adsl as long as they have offered it in my area. The funny thing is that i’m at 23,000 ft from the CO. The technical limit of adsl is supposed to be 21,000 ft. I think they refuse customers now if they are on that limit. I was complaining one time, and the rep actually said something along the lines of if i didnt like the service, they’ll cancel it (b/c im on the fringe)…
way to go cool guy from St. louis. keep kicking people off the phone!