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No, I have not. I hate dealing with SBC, but I will make it a priority to do so. Thanks Frank

Thanks for your response! Here are the results of the test you requested. Not sure what they mean. The first one performed at 8:45pm was while I was experiencning a major slow down. The second at 6am was my optimal 2526 Kbps or 2.53 Mbps (308 kB/s) speed. 8:45pm C:Documents and SettingsFrank Martinez>tracert testmy.net Tracing route to testmy.net [67.18.179.85] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms 192.168.0.1 2 14 ms 12 ms 12 ms bras3-l0.skt2ca.sbcglobal.net [151.164.187.4] 3 12 ms 12 ms 11 ms dist1-vlan50.skt2ca.sbcglobal.net [68.120.211.66 ] 4 21 ms 19 ms 19 ms bb2-g8-3-0.skt2ca.sbcglobal.net.211.120.68.in-ad dr.arpa [68.120.211.244] 5 31 ms 31 ms 33 ms bb1-p10-2.crscca.sbcglobal.net [151.164.191.241] 6 39 ms 39 ms * ex2-p14-0.eqsjca.sbcglobal.net [151.164.242.230] 7 31 ms 31 ms 30 ms ex1-p10-0.eqsjca.sbcglobal.net [151.164.191.66] 8 * 31 ms 31 ms ge-6-12.car4.sanjose1.level3.net [151.164.250.57 ] 9 32 ms 42 ms 36 ms ae-2-56.bbr2.SanJose1.Level3.net [4.68.123.161] 10 80 ms 78 ms 88 ms ae-0-0.bbr1.Dallas1.Level3.net [64.159.1.109] 11 70 ms 87 ms 78 ms ae-14-55.car4.Dallas1.Level3.net [4.68.122.144] 12 78 ms 78 ms 78 ms THE-PLANET.car4.Level3.net [63.209.48.110] 13 79 ms 78 ms 78 ms vl31.dsr02.dllstx3.theplanet.com [70.85.127.30] 14 70 ms 70 ms 72 ms vl42.dsr02.dllstx4.theplanet.com [70.85.127.91] 15 87 ms 87 ms 87 ms gi1-0-2.car17.dllstx4.theplanet.com [67.18.116.8 5] 16 79 ms 80 ms 82 ms 55.b3.1243.static.theplanet.com [67.18.179.85] Trace complete. 6:18am Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600] © Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp. C:Documents and SettingsFrank Martinez>tracert testmy.net Tracing route to testmy.net [67.18.179.85] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.0.1 2 15 ms 24 ms 12 ms bras3-l0.skt2ca.sbcglobal.net [151.164.187.4] 3 11 ms 11 ms 11 ms dist1-vlan60.skt2ca.sbcglobal.net [68.120.211.13 0] 4 11 ms 10 ms 11 ms bb2-g8-3-0.skt2ca.sbcglobal.net.211.120.68.in-ad dr.arpa [68.120.211.244] 5 13 ms 13 ms 13 ms bb1-p10-2.crscca.sbcglobal.net [151.164.191.241] 6 13 ms 13 ms 13 ms ex2-p14-0.eqsjca.sbcglobal.net [151.164.242.230] 7 14 ms 13 ms 14 ms ex1-p10-0.eqsjca.sbcglobal.net [151.164.191.66] 8 13 ms 13 ms 14 ms ge-6-11.car4.SanJose1.Level3.net [151.164.250.29 ] 9 15 ms 14 ms 14 ms ae-2-54.bbr2.SanJose1.Level3.net [4.68.123.97] 10 61 ms 61 ms 61 ms as-1-0.bbr2.Dallas1.Level3.net [64.159.0.245] 11 60 ms 61 ms 61 ms ae-24-52.car4.Dallas1.Level3.net [4.68.122.48] 12 61 ms 61 ms 60 ms THE-PLANET.car4.Level3.net [63.209.48.110] 13 61 ms 60 ms 60 ms vl31.dsr02.dllstx3.theplanet.com [70.85.127.30] 14 62 ms 61 ms 62 ms vl42.dsr02.dllstx4.theplanet.com [70.85.127.91] 15 62 ms 87 ms 61 ms gi1-0-2.car17.dllstx4.theplanet.com [67.18.116.8 5] 16 62 ms 61 ms 63 ms 55.b3.1243.static.theplanet.com [67.18.179.85] Trace complete.

Quick question. I have SBC 3MB DSL and during the morning and mid-day I have no issues with downloads. Typically I can download at the 3MB mark.. .but in the evening hours my DSL comes to a major slowdown. Why is that? I thought DSL wasn't supposed to experience the same slow down as cable users do towards the evening hours. This is the typical score I get between 6pm and 10pm pst. :::.. Download Stats ..::: Connection is:: 232 Kbps about 0.23 Mbps (tested with 2992 kB) Download Speed is:: 28 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net (Server 1) Test Time:: 2006/05/09 - 8:36pm Bottom Line:: 4X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 36.57 sec Tested from a 2992 kB file and took 105.671 seconds to complete Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060426 Firefox/1.5.0.3 Diagnosis: May need help : running at only 12.18 % of your hosts average (pacbell.net) Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-M6Q12T8RD

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