AT&T to Pay You Money Back For Your Slow DSL
Get ready to roll in pocket change!
If you've been an AT&T DSL subscriber after March 31, 1994, you may be entitled to some money from AT&T thanks to a class action settlement.
According to the IDG news service, current and past customers of AT&T DSL who had their DSL speeds configured by AT&T at a lower speed than promised in the plan is eligible for $2.90 per month while affected.
Those who had their DSL speeds configured by AT&T correctly but still experienced slower than expected speeds are eligible for a $2 per month settlement.
Finally, those who said that they experienced slower speeds but AT&T believes received the service they paid for will be eligible for a single $2 payment.
If that applies to you, then hit up this website here to file your claim before June 1, 2010.
In addition to the settlement sums, AT&T will make a $3.75 million charitable contribution on top of paying $11 million in legal fees.

Some charity gets $3.75 million
and some lawyer gets $11 million?!!?
So basically, AT&T is paying $2 to any customer willing to lie about the quality of their service, or too ignorant to realize that having nine or ten torrents running while streaming HD porn is going to slow down your internet.
Huh, 3.75 minllion charitable to who... are they trying to say "We are sorry to screw our customers but here is 3.75 million to charity because we care". This doesn't make sence to me at all.
Just because you like to run 10 HD pr0n torrents download everyday, that doesn't mean everyone else is doing the same. So don't easily call others as ignorant.
Some charity gets $3.75 million
and some lawyer gets $11 million?!!?
Att did a mediocre job in the past and now competitiors have come up in the marketplace as a result.
How fast should I *really* be able to DL with a 768k connection? The highest I've seen is about 300 on steam. Am I getting ripped off? Should I ask for money?
Of course I'm sure their speeds were still slower then they should have been in a lot of cases. I know I've seen more then a few Qwest DSL modems that don't connect near the mediocre 1.5Mbs they are selling it as. And of course so do a lot of cable companies, and since *up to* includes 0... well they aren't making any guarantee at all...
Emphasis on "but AT&T believes received the service they paid for". In other words, AT&T makes the decision on who gets money back. For all we know, AT&T will give a single $2 payment to anyone that claims it and say they "believed" the customer was receiving the service he/she paid for.
Why not switch to a different browser where you can block ads and scripts (I'm using Firefox with AdBlock and NoScript and have no issues at all)
Example:
3 Mb/s (3000 kb/s) Internet -> 3000 / 8 = 375
375 * .2 = 75
375 - 75 = 300 Kilobytes/second
DATA rates are usually in kb and not KB. Look at 10/100/1000...all of those are in bits not bytes. So it isn't sneaky advertising.
That long ago? That's my whole lifetime.
...then again I'm 4 blocks from the CO.
P.S. I haven't gotten a single piracy letter since I switched from Charter!
You need to get some companies to lay out some fios in your area. I pay $60/mo (granted, that's more than $47) and get 50mbit/50mbit. I don't want to seem like I'm bragging, but areas where people think 6mbit is good really need to get working on their infrastructure.
Oh yeah, and so I at least have a little bit on topic - I had AT&T DSL about 10 years ago, and to be perfectly honest, they delivered every bit of bandwidth they said they would. No complaints on that.
Anyone who really cares about a one-time $2 payment is as lame as the paperboy on "Better Off Dead".