Anyone else having DSL issues in Glen Ellyn ?

Yesterday we were experiencing slow downloads and we had one brief outage. So far, things seem normal today.

Yes and no. On the 23, apparaently in the early morning we had a power failure. My computer rebooted as did the DSL box. No big deal. I attempted to make a new DSL connection ( I have an old box) and it kept giving me an error (one i've seen before). Did you get this? Called up AT & T and asked the tech - hey, is Glen Ellyn out of service for now? - Dude didn't answer me, instead just tried to see my connection and had me try to delete old icons and connections and make more, etc. I repeated again, Is Glen Ellyn... so forth. They patch me through to higher up guys - guys says - Yeah, Glen Ellyn and area is out! Thank you for 30 minutes of wasted time! However, the guy commented my modem/gateway was old and was going to send me a new one. Xmas eve - at my front door - new modem. Pretty neat! and for free! But I do see hickups and my husband who always plays checkers noticed slowness. Again, it's either the line (AT & T) or the new modem not humming along properly? don't know? But it's very intermittent. Obviously I'm typing now and see the internet with no disappointing speed. I did notice last night posting a reply took a while and moving page to page was slow. NWBurbs was slow too. Or it could be my new equipment and software?

I've had the best luck reading the forums for at&t dsl at dslreports.com

when I have issues I go there first to see if it there is a regional problem before I try calling their joke of a tech support. They walked me thru a tech call one time after I couldn't get to certain websites. They couldn't figure out the problem but said I should try their paid tech support since it appeared to beyond their scope. I said no way and went to dsl reports. Sure enough, on there it mentioned AT&T was having issues with some of their DNS servers, but they were being cleared up.

All is good again.