AT&T Drops Out of FCC Speed-Test Program So It Can Hide Bad Results

Started by joesixpack, December 14, 2019, 09:20:40 AM

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QuoteAT&T doesn't want its home Internet speeds to be measured by the Federal Communications Commission anymore, and it already convinced the FCC to exclude its worst speed-test results from an annual government report. "AT&T this year told the commission it will no longer cooperate with the FCC's SamKnows speed test," The Wall Street Journal wrote in an investigative report titled "Your Internet provider likely juiced its official speed scores." AT&T already convinced the FCC to exclude certain DSL test results from last year's Measuring Broadband America report. The reports are based on the SamKnows testing equipment installed in thousands of homes across the U.S.

"AT&T was dismayed at its report card from a government test measuring Internet speeds" and thus "pushed the Federal Communications Commission to omit unflattering data on its DSL Internet service from the report," the Journal wrote. "In the end, the DSL data was left out of the report released late last year, to the chagrin of some agency officials," the Journal wrote. "AT&T's remaining speed tiers notched high marks."

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/12/att-drops-out-of-fcc-speed-test-program-so-it-can-hide-bad-results/

Their service is super slow in South Florida. The only alternative is Comcast here
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DSL is hit and miss at best. If you live at the 10 mile limit, you just as well do dial up. The AT&T tech told us we could get it, but we were 8 miles from the station, said we'd be better off on dial up.
A lot of people live too far out but insisted on using DSL because at the time they had no other options, now we have satellite, much faster, but lag can be a bitch.
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Quote from: Solar on December 14, 2019, 10:31:21 AM
DSL is hit and miss at best. If you live at the 10 mile limit, you just as well do dial up. The AT&T tech told us we could get it, but we were 8 miles from the station, said we'd be better off on dial up.
A lot of people live too far out but insisted on using DSL because at the time they had no other options, now we have satellite, much faster, but lag can be a bitch.

Yeah, they're pretty bad.

I have them because I'm 2 houses away from their power box or whatever it is.

I get great speed. Friends that are fiuther away have Comcast. They gave up on em.

I keep them cause it's $50 a month with no contract
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Quote from: joesixpack on December 14, 2019, 11:57:23 AM
Yeah, they're pretty bad.

I have them because I'm 2 houses away from their power box or whatever it is.

I get great speed. Friends that are fiuther away have Comcast. They gave up on em.

I keep them cause it's $50 a month with no contract
I envy you, we'll never get cable, too far out, so we're stuck paying nearly a hundred per month for satellite, 100 gigs limit.
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