Holy crap I thought it was just me having problems with ATT...
Uverse customer here in SC and I ping 1000+ to Darrowshire. I had to resort to tethering to my phone which works just fine. I'm actually in the process of getting rid of ATT since I'm having other problems - super slow speeds from Youtube and other streaming services but speedtests always come back fine. I get the feeling ATT does a lot of traffic shaping (not saying this is the case with Elysium).