[Dead] SBC DSL 6mbit/608 $44.99/month! (Feb-Mar only) Update: If you got the deal, you keep the speed

[kindest]

today is the 6th day for me and still no upgrade. (bay area)
i hope that they arent trying to figure out how to cap the lines at 3mbit is why
its taking so long. doesnt seem most peoples lines have been upgraded in the time frame they said.

 

[dirtcheapII]

I live in rosemead california .got update on time today at 4 pm but the speed totally unstable range between 1mb to 3.5mb. hopefully it will get stable in couple day

 

[kindest]

Originally posted by: dirtcheapII
I live in rosemead california .got update on time today at 4 pm but the speed totally unstable range between 1mb to 3.5mb. hopefully it will get stable in couple day

did it auto reboot your modem so you knew when the update happened?
or all of a sudden your speeds doubled without ever having disconnected?

 

[dirtcheapII]

no you don"t need to reboot modem. but incase you encounter speed problem like I do turn off modem 2 to 5 minute my help stable it

 

[Devistater]

Originally posted by: kindest
today is the 6th day for me and still no upgrade. (bay area)
i hope that they arent trying to figure out how to cap the lines at 3mbit is why
its taking so long. doesnt seem most peoples lines have been upgraded in the time frame they said.

You might want to call SBC and ask them about the status. A lot of people on the dslreports forums were saying orders were entered incorrectly and never got through to the people who do the actual change in speed at the phone place. I'm going to do that myself tomorrow if nothing happens by then.
Edit: I said "in correctly" I didn't mean for there to be a space its supposed to be "incorrectly"

 

[kindest]

Originally posted by: Devistater

Originally posted by: kindest
today is the 6th day for me and still no upgrade. (bay area)
i hope that they arent trying to figure out how to cap the lines at 3mbit is why
its taking so long. doesnt seem most peoples lines have been upgraded in the time frame they said.

You might want to call SBC and ask them about the status. A lot of people on the dslreports forums were saying orders were entered in correctly and never got through to the people who do the actual change in speed at the phone place. I'm going to do that myself tomorrow if nothing happens by then.

ditto.

 

[QuicknDirty]

Well, SBC finally got off their butts and put in a RT in my area, allowing me to finally have an alternative to Charter cable. Found out I'm less than 4,700 feet from them, so I jumped on the Expert plan...

Hopefully, I won't regret it. I've been a very LOYAL cable broadband subscriber since it was even available in my area (some 6 years ago)...hoping I won't be disappointed in the DSL service

But if I succeed in getting some of the speeds I've been reading in various posts, I'm sure I'll be overjoyed

QnD

 

[winzonly]

Ok... this is MY story

I placed an upgrade last mon 2/02/04 and they told me that by 2/09/04, the speed change will take into effect.... but last nite... on 2/09/04 i didn't see ANY results at all... i am still getting around 1.302mbps/302kpbs with the standard plus package...

and i called SBC DSL support line... This support is located OUTSIDE of the US when you first call them and I had to talk to some guy that had a strong Indian accent for like 1 hr... bummer... I told them that they didn't do the speed change on my line yet but they keep making me clean my cookies and reboot and what not... it was a PAIN!!!

FINALLY they transfer me back to the US office, somewhere in CALI and they lady took about 10 mins and told me the ASI people probably haven't done anything to my file yet and they are currently closed.... so she help me write up a troubleshoot ticket and finally by about 5pm tonite, speed went UP!!!

now my speed is at:
4.503mpbs/468.87kpbs

My tips to you if you have the same problem as me... maybe make up a story or something but if you know computer, avoid talking to people in India, they put you on hold like FOREVER... my total talk time last nite was 1hr 20 mins

GOOD LUCK!!!

PS. almost signed up with DSLEXTREME 6000mpbs/608kpbs package... WHEW save $15 a month... just don't have static IP

 

[Devistater]

Originally posted by: kindest
today is the 6th day for me and still no upgrade. (bay area)

Welp, apparently they did get my order all done properly. I got up today and my upload has been upgraded. (see first post for link to my speed test). I ordered last week on wednesday, so today is my 7th day. Hopefully they will get my download taken care of in the next couple days. I'll probably skip calling them for a couple days since my upload upgrade went in.

 

[lex]

sucks! They say the expert plus package you need to be within 7500 feet, and im 12,300 feet.. no go for me..

 

[Dulanic]

Well the plus is my DSL got turned on today, they gave me a date of the 18th. However the down side is they set me up with THE WRONG PACKAGE GRRRRR. They gave me the 384-1.5 down 128up package, the good part is I'm getting 1.5 down and 160 up with that package. I called and they will have me upgraded to the correct package within 5 buisness days.

 

[Entity]

Wish I could get SBC here in Seattle.

 

[bjamm2]

i think i'll stick with my comcast cable

2004-02-11 16:21:02 EST: 3137 / 239
Your download speed : 3137383 bps, or 3137 kbps.
A 382.9 KB/sec transfer rate.
Your upload speed : 239721 bps, or 239 kbps.
Seems like broadband .. above the 1mbit barrier!


actually goes up to 400kb but im not complaining on my free upgrade

 

[slag]

i am on this new plan. i called in the 2nd, was given a due date of the 9th. my upload was fixed last friday, but no download.. i called in the evening of the 9th and found my rback profile was not correctly built out.. its good now.. my speedtests are maxxing out at 4.9 mb/sec with uploads around 500-520 kbps. I am going to buy a good cayman router and tweak my config, but i am happy. I can download a full 650 mb linux iso in around 8 minutes.

it really rocks for "da 'torrent"

 

[Entity]

Originally posted by: bjamm2
i think i'll stick with my comcast cable

2004-02-11 16:21:02 EST: 3137 / 239
Your download speed : 3137383 bps, or 3137 kbps.
A 382.9 KB/sec transfer rate.
Your upload speed : 239721 bps, or 239 kbps.
Seems like broadband .. above the 1mbit barrier!


actually goes up to 400kb but im not complaining on my free upgrade

Not quite as fast, but costs more. I wish SBC were available here. :|

Rob

 

[Anonemous]

Originally posted by: Entity

Originally posted by: bjamm2
i think i'll stick with my comcast cable

2004-02-11 16:21:02 EST: 3137 / 239
Your download speed : 3137383 bps, or 3137 kbps.
A 382.9 KB/sec transfer rate.
Your upload speed : 239721 bps, or 239 kbps.
Seems like broadband .. above the 1mbit barrier!


actually goes up to 400kb but im not complaining on my free upgrade

Not quite as fast, but costs more. I wish SBC were available here. :|

Rob

As long as you're happy with comcast and don't fear the download caps (with no stated limits) that they're enforcing... good for you!

I do notice some disconnections of the modem throughout the day for the SBC/DSLextreme DSL plan but I haven't hooked up my main computer to it so I haven't noticed any significant downtime. The only thing I'm gonna miss is the upload speed (downgrading from 768-> 608).

edti: gonna have to edit my system rig profiles

 

[slag]

Here's a post upgrade speed test:

DSL Speedtest

 

[kindest]

this is my 7th day and no upgrade yet.
ordered on the 4th at like 4pm.. so i guess they still have some time to do it.
but knowing my luck they messed it up.
so i will be calling them 1st thing in the morning if its not working.

 

[pulse8]

I just got my modem in today for my new customer setup. I'm not supposed to be active until the 17th, but I've got my fingers crossed. (I'm only 2700 feet from the CO.)

 

[lobadobadingdong]

Originally posted by: Devistater

Originally posted by: Anonemous
hmmm now I wonder if I should order 2 x6Mbps lines... Would it be simple to mux them if you just use 2 nics and bridge them using winxp?

Even if you do that, you wouldn't be able to share the load between them easily or cheaply AFAIK. Like if you downloaded something you'd have to choose which one it came from. Sure you could download 2 files at once each at 6 mbit speeds, but if you are trying to speed up just that one file 2 lines aren't going to help much unless you have extra equipment.
I could be wrong about this, I've never done it. But this is what I think is correct anyway. If anyone knows better please post and let us know.

you can load balance with one of these hotbrick vpn/firewalls.

 

[Devistater]

Originally posted by: slag
Here's a post upgrade speed test:
DSL Speedtest

No need to take screenshots of speed tests. Just do direct link to the test results screen, copy the entire link. It saves your tests in thier database for this very reason. Plus then it uses up dslreports bandwidth instead of yours See one of the last links on my first post for my current speed test as an example.

 

[slag]

Originally posted by: Devistater

Originally posted by: slag
Here's a post upgrade speed test:
DSL Speedtest

No need to take screenshots of speed tests. Just do direct link to the test results screen, copy the entire link. It saves your tests in thier database for this very reason. Plus then it uses up dslreports bandwidth instead of yours See one of the last links on my first post for my current speed test as an example.

I did it that way (notice i cut it also in photoshop) because I am putting together a book of speedtests.
I also burn them on cd when I do a personal data dump and burn.

 

[Anonemous]

Originally posted by: lobadobadingdong

Originally posted by: Devistater

Originally posted by: Anonemous
hmmm now I wonder if I should order 2 x6Mbps lines... Would it be simple to mux them if you just use 2 nics and bridge them using winxp?

Even if you do that, you wouldn't be able to share the load between them easily or cheaply AFAIK. Like if you downloaded something you'd have to choose which one it came from. Sure you could download 2 files at once each at 6 mbit speeds, but if you are trying to speed up just that one file 2 lines aren't going to help much unless you have extra equipment.
I could be wrong about this, I've never done it. But this is what I think is correct anyway. If anyone knows better please post and let us know.

you can load balance with one of these hotbrick vpn/firewalls.

899$! Might as well learn linux and buy 2 additional nics and use a cheap computer for load balancing.

 

[Devistater]

Yeah I know. Or get the wrt54g linksys wireless router, use that "hacked" (its not really hacked since linksys released the sourcecode for it) firmware to get almost all of those features (except load balancing) in a $80 piece of hardware

 

[winzonly]

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