AT&T throttling upload speeds?

By on Jul 6, 2010 at 12:38 PM
mobile July 6, 2010

ATT 3G Tests NY,NY

Rumors are starting to fly around the the interwebs about the alleged throttling of upload speeds by everyones favorite wireless carrier AT&T (note: sarcasm). Users are reporting — on Apple’s discussion boards amongst other places — upload speeds topping out at around 100 Kbps in areas that consistently had much higher upload speds. If you’re wondering if your upload speeds are what they should be, go ahead and grab Speedtest.net (available for Android, Apple, BlackBerry, Palm) and let us know what your clocking in at. Currently, I’m seeing 1.8 Mbps down and 1.2 Mbps up in Boston, MA, however…BG is seeing around 300 Kbps down and around 50 Kbps up in New York, NY (ew). How about you?

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  • http://www.mechdog.com MechDog

    1707 Down
    91 Up

    Eastern Shore of Maryland

  • Jason LI

    I agree, ATT is slowing down U/L speeds. I’m wondering why?

    Posted from BGR Mobile (iPhone) at: Holtsville Americas

  • Scott

    1734 Down
    254 Up
    San Diego

    3GS

  • Jojo

    Los Angeles CA.

    Speedtest.net

    Down: 1.83mbps
    Up: .26 Mbps

    WTF!?

  • Anonemus

    AT&T rolled out some E-DCH upgrades and found out that it started causing mass data disconnects across many markets nationwide. Some were unaffected.

    Rollbacks were performed and so people are now seeing decreased upload speeds. It’ll be this way for a a day to a few days until they patch it up and deploy again.

    • Anonemus

      Oh and to add, this should only affect 3G. You may see some dropped calls in there too.

      They’re not really being “evil”. They just broke it and are fixing it.

    • Anonemus

      Sorry, forgot one small detail worth mentioning. Upload speeds should look even sexier after things are patched up.

  • ken

    Sacramento: 2.14 down, 1.21 up

  • http://BGR EESPOT

    clocking at

    2312kbps down // 189kbps up

    manhattan, NY

  • ESP

    I’m seeing 1.8 down, 1.04 up

  • RJ

    1328 down/56 up

    Indianapolis

  • aaron

    4200kbps down / 1300 kbps up

    Posted from BGR Mobile (iPhone) at: Chicago Northwestern University (Medical and Law School), Chicago, IL 60611, USA

  • Cyberdan3

    2300 down 200 up
    Blaine, MN

    Posted from BGR Mobile (iPhone).

  • Cyberdan3

    2300 down 200 up
    Blaine, MN

    Posted from BGR Mobile (iPhone) at: Blaine Americas

  • http://www.payingptcsites.info Best PTC

    1520 + down / 400 up

  • Tav

    1646 Kbps Down
    1171 Kbps Up
    Greensboro, NC

    Posted from BGR Mobile (iPhone) at: Greensboro Americas

  • HillBill

    I don’t think microcells support HSUPA. So tests made on microcells seems normal.

  • ATrain

    Three miles from ATT Wireless HQ in Atlanta I’m getting:

    07/06/2010 2:29pm 3G DL AVG 548Kb/s MAX 624Kb/s
    3G UL AVG 216Kb/s MAX 216Kb/s
    Latency 251ms
    07/06/2010 2:25pm EDGE DL AVG 97Kb/s MAX 117Kb/s
    EDGE UL AVG 20Kb/s MAX 23Kb/s

  • Pete

    Getting anywhere from 1.5 to 2 Meg down and 1 to 1.25 Meg up in Atlanta and surrounding suburbs.

  • Evolver311

    7 miles southeast of downtown Charlotte, NC:

    Test 1:
    Download – 796 kb/s
    Upload – 471 kb/s

    Test 2:
    Download – 680 kb/s
    Upload – 342 kb/s

    Test 3:
    Download – 1,253 kb/s
    Upload – 533 kb/s

  • pa

    1.93 down
    .09 up

  • CamJK

    Does anyone know which markets specifically have this Alcatel Lucent equipment?

  • CamJK

    look here:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT&T_Mobility

    the cities having problems correlate exactly to the original 2005 3G rollout cities:

    Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Salt Lake City, San Jose, San Diego, Las Vegas, Phoenix, Puerto Rico, Austin, Houston, Dallas, Detroit, Chicago, Boston, Baltimore and Washington D.C.

  • Patrick

    Shreveport, LA

    1.36 download
    1.23 upload

  • http://batteryboss.org Doug Simmons

    Still throttling uploads in Manhatta, day and night.. except, oddly, in the Fifth Avenue Apple store where bandwidth, up and down, is pretty good, even when the store is packed, relative to speeds just a block away.

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