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Offline bustr

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ATT, UDP and Bandwidth Throtteling
« on: March 29, 2011, 06:51:15 PM »
I know ATT gives us customers monthly download limits due to a dedicated few file sharers so they legaly say. At the best between myself and my wife we have hit 10% of the monthly allowence in our contract. Even with her in grad school online.

But, am I misstaken to the extream or does ATT severly restrict residential UDP bandwidth? I know they had an issue with Netflix and many ATT customers watch streaming video which ATT wanted to get a slice of the revenue streaming through their system.

Is their any substance to this observation about ATT?
Is there a simple way to monitor this in realtime?
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Re: ATT, UDP and Bandwidth Throtteling
« Reply #1 on: March 30, 2011, 03:04:42 PM »
they did it with me and I only play ah.  I would call complain about it then my speed would go up for a month or two, then slowly go down.  I was paying for 3.0 but getting 1.2 if that.  I finally got sick of it called time warner (company which I hate) and got their internet cable service and cancelled att phone and internet and saved myself 30 bucks a month.  i have noticed the same thing also on cell phones from verizon, once your get close to the 2 year mark, the internet starts getting really slow.  I am assuming is their way of forcing you to get another phone and another 2 year contract.  I had the storm which always had great reception then withing 2 months it went to being so slow it was ridicules.  I upgraded to the droidx and rooted it.  but they'll find a way to throttle the phone on their end.

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Re: ATT, UDP and Bandwidth Throtteling
« Reply #2 on: March 31, 2011, 11:41:43 AM »
I don't have a problem with AT&T Uverse but when I had their DSL service I NEVER got any decent bandwidth and spent more time down than a hooker during fleet week.
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Re: ATT, UDP and Bandwidth Throtteling
« Reply #3 on: March 31, 2011, 03:09:09 PM »
I don't have a problem with AT&T Uverse but when I had their DSL service I NEVER got any decent bandwidth and spent more time down than a hooker during fleet week.

Same experience here.

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Re: ATT, UDP and Bandwidth Throtteling
« Reply #4 on: April 01, 2011, 08:51:53 AM »
What is slow?

Data transfer rate or latency?

Offline katanaso

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Re: ATT, UDP and Bandwidth Throtteling
« Reply #5 on: April 01, 2011, 09:48:34 AM »
Transfer rates.  Latency was never an issue. 

Using Microsoft for an example -- transfer rates nearly doubled when I went to U-Verse with the same advertised speed my DSL had.  Is it because of the different route and perhaps few hops it took?  I don't know, as I never did a before and after comparison. 

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