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I just joined this website and I had to stick my 2 cents in this discussion because I just went with sbc yahoo for the last 2 weeks after being with coved for a year.  I'm in a suburb of Chicago and coved is suppose to be the #1 provider for business in this area, for about $400 a month you can get a blazing fast T1 or T2 line, but for your average 1.5 residential line I was paying $54.95 a month and in the 1 year that I was stuck with them I never got over 768/308, after numerous calls to tech support of being told that I had a problem on my end and they cant do anything about it because I got the self install kit, they finally send someone out and installed a pots splitter next to the nid box at there expense and the guy also did a line quality test and told me that there was nothing wrong on my side, he said the problem was on the telco side, he said that coved was overloading there servers and that is the reason why I will never get any faster speed than what I was currently getting.
So tech support is turning my speed down to 900 in order for me to get in the 700's, as soon as they would put it up to 1500, what I was paying for, my modem would lose sink and I would get nothing, so they would have to add more servers or keep my speed down to 900.  What happens is most people that switch from dial up to broadband are so happy that there internet is so much faster and as long as you are just surfing the internet and not downloading big files you don't realize that what you are paying for and what you are getting are totally different.
To end this long story about a month before my contract was going to be up with coved I did some research to see what is available in my area and found I had 2 choices cable from Comcast for $57 for the service +$3 to lease the modem per month for 3000/128 or sbc yahoo dsl in 2 different flavors 1500/328 for $26 or 3000/328 for $35 a month.  I chose the $35 one witch is $20 cheaper than what I was paying for, only problem was I had to go with the 1500/328 for the first 3 months because they are in the process of putting new wires in my area to handle the higher speed, so in the mean time I get the 1500/328 package for free until the new lines are done, plus they told me that I have one month to see if I am happy with it and cancel if im not within a month.
My speed test results in the 2 weeks that I have had it have been consistent at 1200 to 1300 down and 300 to 320 up.  So I would say I am very happy with sbc yahoo!

::::::::::.. Download Stats ..::::::::::
Connection is:: 1310 Kbps about 1.3 Mbps (tested with 1013 KB)
Download Speed is:: 160 kB/s
Tested From:: http://www.testmy.net/
Bottom Line:: 23 times faster than 56K you can download 1MB in 6.4 second(s)
Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/cgi-bin/get.cgi?Test_ID=GINP9YC32

   
   I have the sbc 3mbs download and 384 upload. Here it is 26.95 first twomonths then 36.95 a month and here is my scores!!!!

::::::::::.. Download Stats ..::::::::::
Connection is:: 2538 Kbps about 2.5 Mbps (tested with 2992 KB)
Download Speed is:: 310 kB/s
Tested From:: http://www.testmy.net/
Bottom Line:: 45 times faster than 56K you can download 1MB in 3.3 second(s)
Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/cgi-bin/auth_check.cgi?num=252525

 Damn it sorry I couldn't get it to paste any other way.Because I can't figure it out help please!!! But here my upload!!!!

::::::::::.. Upload Stats ..::::::::::
Connection is: 389 Kbps about 0.4 Mbps (tested with 2992 KB)
Upload Speed is: 47 kB/s
Tested From:: http://www.testmy.net/
Bottom Line: 7 times faster than 56K you can upload 1MB in 21.79 second(s)
Validation Link :: http://testmy.net/cgi-bin/get.cgi?Test_ID=5IJYX9FNC

   Also notice tested with 3mb file and yes vanburen I treid your 12mb test and scored higher first time then about  same as 3mb so should be accurate thanks!!!!
 Also I had the 1.5mbs plan before and never got above 680kbs or so most of the time it ran about 340kbs that sucked and it was up and down and after calling them for 3 months or so they found the problem!!! There servers were to far away so they set me up to closer servers and now I am happy thanks!!!!!

Edit by RTB: Fixed your copy'n'paste stuff. All you need to copy is the text inside the text box for easy viewable speed results. The automatic copy link doesn't seem to work in Firefox.

HI I user SBC yahoo dsl too and i get pretty good connection I pay 26.95 month 1.5 mb connection and I get results of
Download:
Your connection is: 1585 Kbps      (about 1.6 Mbps)
You downloaded at: 193 kB/s
Your TRuSPEED™: ^info^ 1696 Kbps :: 207 kB/s (7% overhead factored)
Bottom Line: You are running: 28 times faster than 56K and can download 1 megabyte in 5.31 second(s) 

Upload:
Your connection is: 307 Kbps      (about 0.3 Mbps)
You uploaded at: 37 kB/s
Your TRuSPEED™: ^info^ 316 Kbps :: 38 kB/s (3% overhead factored)
Bottom Line: You are running: 5 times faster than 56K and can upload 1 megabyte in 27.68 second(s) 

504 a month? hopefully you meant $50....

you are getting ripped off for 2/192...

I pay $44.95 for 3/368

My SBC Yahoo DSL  OK !!! but could be better
I had A wireless ISP and the speeds were slow, I guess I called and complained enough to the manager and he told me that they were going to upgrade the tower within the next month or, I could switch to DSL since they was a reseller for SBC.  I took him up on that offer,

Here are the DSL results:

::::::::::.. Download Stats ..::::::::::
Connection is:: 1146 Kbps about 1.1 Mbps (tested with 748 kB)
Download Speed is:: 140 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net/ (main)
Test Time:: Tue Apr 19 2005 10:13:18 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time)
Bottom Line:: 20X faster than 56K 1MB download in 7.31 sec
Diagnosis: Awesome! 20% + : 26.21 % faster than the average for host (valuenet.net)
Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-GH493ST10

::::::::::.. Upload Stats ..::::::::::
Connection is:: 282 Kbps about 0.3 Mbps (tested with 97 kB)
Upload Speed is:: 34 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net/ (main)
Test Time:: Tue Apr 19 2005 10:13:57 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time)
Bottom Line:: 5X faster than 56K 1MB upload in 30.12 sec
Diagnosis: 90% + Okay : running at 95.92 % of your hosts average (valuenet.net)
Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-6THWA2K95

Here are the results of the wireless since the upgrade
Yes, I do still have both connections, and all for $40 a month

::::::::::.. Download Stats ..::::::::::
Connection is:: 2112 Kbps about 2.1 Mbps (tested with 2992 kB)
Download Speed is:: 258 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net/ (main)
Test Time:: Tue Apr 19 09:43:13 CST 2005
Bottom Line:: 38X faster than 56K 1MB download in 3.97 sec
Diagnosis: Awesome! 20% + : 71.29 % faster than the average for host (brick.net)
Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-B28395H6U

::::::::::.. Upload Stats ..::::::::::
Connection is:: 326 Kbps about 0.3 Mbps (tested with 579 kB)
Upload Speed is:: 40 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net/ (main)
Test Time:: Tue Apr 19 09:44:55 CST 2005
Bottom Line:: 6X faster than 56K 1MB upload in 25.6 sec
Diagnosis: Awesome! 20% + : 95.21 % faster than the average for host (brick.net)
Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-BS4CHDQV1

i am very UNHAPPY right now.. this is my first day using SBC/yahoo and .......

::::::::::.. Download Stats ..::::::::::
Connection is:: 160 Kbps about 0.2 Mbps (tested with 97 kB)
Download Speed is:: 19 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net/ (main)
Test Time:: Sat Apr 30 2005 00:28:55 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)
Bottom Line:: 3X faster than 56K 1MB download in 53.89 sec
Diagnosis: May need help : running at only 11.22 % of your hosts average (pacbell.net)
Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-8A6EL9QY4

 

Stats at my place of business.  We pay $85 a month, capped at 10megs.  I can also say our uptime has been phenomenal, haven't had any outages in over 6 months.


::::::::::.. Download Stats ..::::::::::
Connection is:: 5145 Kbps about 5.1 Mbps (tested with 12160 kB)
Download Speed is:: 628 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net/ (main)
Test Time:: Fri May 20 13:22:26 CDT 2005
Bottom Line:: 92X faster than 56K 1MB download in 1.63 sec
Diagnosis: Awesome! 20% + : 204.62 % faster than the average for host (swbell.net)
Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-JXO4HYBRC

::::::::::.. Upload Stats ..::::::::::
Connection is:: 462 Kbps about 0.5 Mbps (tested with 1013 kB)
Upload Speed is:: 56 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net/ (main)
Test Time:: Fri May 20 13:28:39 CDT 2005
Bottom Line:: 8X faster than 56K 1MB upload in 18.29 sec
Diagnosis: Awesome! 20% + : 58.22 % faster than the average for host (swbell.net)
Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-LIV06GHS9

I've had a few problems with sbc yahoo dsl express...especially since upgrading to the pro plan...as you can see I'm not even at the 1.5Mbps minimum and a far cry from 3.0Mbps.  I'm only 5,000 feet from the Co and I've tried every tweak available, fortunately their "dedicated" staff has yet to figure out what the problem is...they claim my line can handle 8Mbps. The cheap price reflects their service!

::::::::::.. Download Stats ..::::::::::
Connection is:: 1315 Kbps about 1.3 Mbps (tested with 1013 kB)
Download Speed is:: 161 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net/ (server1)
Test Time:: Mon Jun 27 2005 14:47:31 GMT-0700 (Pacific Standard Time)
Bottom Line:: 23X faster than 56K 1MB download in 6.36 sec
Diagnosis: May need help : running at only 79.5 % of your hosts average (pacbell.net)
Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-YTGSN5E96