Yes, RR is going to suckass for probably quite a while now, and progressively get worse over the next 2 weeks or so until it hits a flat-rate of suckness.
AT&T is being dropped by @home (or the other way around, depending on who you ask), and they are moving over all previous @home backbone customers to their own IP network. Unfortunately, I highly doubt at&t's cable IP network was really anticipating the dumping of about 800,000 (estimated) customers onto it, within a period of about 2 weeks (10 days is what at&t is saying to the customers down now due to @home). So far, about 50,000 customers have been turned over from @home to at&t's network in washington, and I believe oregon. So I'm betting if you live in some metro areas around there you probably are seeing a difference right about now.
I'm expecting their entire infrastructure to start to suckass pretty hardcore by the time they get everyone moved, even if no one in your state even used @home. I semi-know the doctrine of AT&T broadband, being privy to traffic stats on their IP backbone around this area, and they DO NOT keep much excess capacity laying about.
Of course, this is all my opinion.
-Phil