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ATTbi Slowly raising the upload cap in certain markets. Posted in the Discussion Forum by inside_attbiOk all you folks in Pittsburgh, PA and the SF Bay area, I have some good news for you. It looks like ATTBI has finally started realizing that these problem areas are just way overloaded. To try and compensate for this, they have raised the upload caps to 256.
The yes-men where I work refuse to elaborate any further on this, but I think that this trend will eventually spread to all the markets. I know that many peeps care more about their DOWNLOAD cap more than the upload, but this is going to benefit everyone.
This will make up for a lot of the bandwidth that gets eaten up by DOCSIS traffic to the network servers. The bottom line is that it is going to do away with a lot of the intermittent connectivity problems.
I would tell you to inquire to ATTBI about this matter if you live in other markets, but it won't get you anywhere. It will happen eventually, but most of the agents will either not know what you're talking about, or won't say anything about it
Ok this will give it more room for the crowded subnets. It will also mean that Gaming should improve, Plus uploading to a website or moving larger files across the web wont fall apart from the packet loss that has been going on with the overloaded area.
You might think that why bother give me the download speed again. Wait till you surf with the faster upload.
Thankyou inside_attbi
In other NewsSome of you may have noticed that Broadbandnuts has come back from the ashes.. It has and will continue to grow DSLnuts will be home to the Discussion forum and Broadbandnuts will be upgraded some with new updated information.
New software tool
If you have a network or broadband connection that you need to use a ping tool
Heres one that will help take out the guess work. In some cases you need to know the IP of a machine on a LAN(local area network) this will help
http://www.stintercorp.com/netSX2/pingSX2.phpOther software. Openoffice.org this past week released version 1.0 it works with Microsoft products and Linux Open Excel or MS word doc's and work with them without worry The download is on the large size at aprox. 45meg for Windows and 65meg for Linux. Hey but Im having fun with it.
http://www.openoffice.orgTweakingStop in on the Discussion forum, there are two tweaks being tried out, you need to have a little skill with it. Not necessarily meant for a person new to Windows. But check it out.
Comments are welcome in the Discussion forum Have a great week
