ATT UVERSE QUESTION

[BIGUN 1,488]

OK, Guys, who's got it.
Does it work well?.
Are they fibbing about actually running fiber to the house?
Pro's Cons?

Cox is just outta control with my bill at $200.00+
Looking at the package that is greater than my current 14 down and 5 up internet speeds (See Attachment)

Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard.

[quade 4]

I have it.

It works better than anything else I've ever been able to get at my house.

As to whether or not they're telling the truth about fiber to home, it all depends on your area and in general when your home was built.

My home and neighborhood was build in the mid-40s. Because of that, some infrastructure is quite old. AT&T fiber goes to a central "box" for the neighborhood and copper goes from that to my home. The max distance for this arrangement would normally be about 2,000 feet, but since the distance from my home to their box is about 3,500 feet, I bitched and moaned and made them find a way to make it work. It's not fiber and it's not able to support their fastest speeds advertised, but it's faster than anything they could previously provide me. I get about 3 up and 10 down.

Everything...and I mean everything...about their customer services sucks ass. Their web site for dealing with issues...sucks ass. Their CS reps on the phone...suck ass. Their CS reps on-line...suck ass.

Fortunately, very little goes wrong once it's in.

It IS possible you could be one of the fortunate folks who actually can get fiber to home. It all depends on your address.

The other thing about AT&T U-verse is their channel package options...which...suck ass. They hold HBO hostage and if you want it, you have to buy -everything-. This isn't just a tactic by AT&T though. It's an industry-wide game, but really it sucks ass to have to play it.

That said, I do like the picture and I'm fairly picky when it comes to that.

quade -
The World's Most Boring Skydiver

[normiss 898]

Wow.

Paul this is EXACTLY our experience with it as well.

It's a beautiful quality service. Kinda pricey.
Worthless and slow customer service. Please hold while I transfer you to someone who can finish my reply.
Beautiful picture quality, fast internets, rare latency issues that make a show look/sound like a Japanese monster movie.

[ryoder 1,590]

I just got Comcast service last Monday, to supplement the DSL I already had. I work from home and got really PO'd when twice in one week I had a service outage first thing in got morning due to my ISP have authentication service issues.

"There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones.

[normiss 898]

Internets snob.

[ryoder 1,590]

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Internets snob.

Hey, I had only 1.5Mb until last week, and for IPv6 I've been using a tunnelbroker or 6to4 anycast for the last five years.

Funny thing was I didn't even know they had rolled out IPv6 here. I was doing a packet capture to diagnose an issue in getting my own modem online so I could turn in the temporary rental unit. I caught my Mac making DHCPv6 requests, and to my astonishment, it was getting answers! It took a whole lot of googling to figure out how to get the Cisco router configured to do that as well as getting the prefix delegation and advertising it.

"There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones.

[oldwomanc6 60]

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Internets snob.

I thought this thread was " At the Universe: The Question."

Anybody have an answer?

lisa
WSCR 594
FB 1023
CBDB 9

[ryoder 1,590]

42?

"There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones.

[oldwomanc6 60]

lisa
WSCR 594
FB 1023
CBDB 9

[BIGUN 1,488]

Paul. Mark, Ryoder,

Thank you, Gentlemen.
Your opinion in this matter is greatly appreciated!!!!!

Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard.

[skymama 37]

We have a lot of short power losses at our house. It took me a long time to figure out that I had to turn on the main unit in the Living Room in order to be able to get the recorded programs to show up in one of the units in other rooms. Just ask Normiss about my frustrated phone calls to him at work when I couldn't watch my recorded Dr. Oz while I was on my treadmill because the power had gone out earlier. (I have such problems, huh? )

She is Da Man, and you better not mess with Da Man,
because she will lay some keepdown on you faster than, well, really fast. ~Billvon

[BIGUN 1,488]

Oh dear LORD!! NO OZ!! Quick, someone get the ice cream!

My favorite station is AMC... other than that, I'm working, on the Internet or fixin sumpin (even if it ain't broke)

Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard.

[popsjumper 2]

You guys are speaking Greek. What ever happened to the vaunted Plug and Play?

My reality and yours are quite different.
I think we're all Bozos on this bus.
Falcon5232, SCS8170, SCSA353, POPS9398, DS239

[normiss 898]

That's Winblows speak.
Which means it actually translated to 'Plug and Pray".

[BIGUN 1,488]

It's becoming a world of wireless, Brother.

Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard.

[popsjumper 2]

Yeah, well so are my smoke signals.






Can you see me now?

My reality and yours are quite different.
I think we're all Bozos on this bus.
Falcon5232, SCS8170, SCSA353, POPS9398, DS239

[kallend 2,150]

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OK, Guys, who's got it.
Does it work well?.
Are they fibbing about actually running fiber to the house?
Pro's Cons?

Cox is just outta control with my bill at $200.00+
Looking at the package that is greater than my current 14 down and 5 up internet speeds (See Attachment)

I have it. They did run fiber.

Works fine for internet and phone. I don't watch TV so I didn't get that part of the package.

...

The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.

[wmw999 2,589]

I have it too for about the last 3 years; been OK, although one of the PC's consistently loses contact with the net (it's the one running Win7, and it hasn't been enough of a hassle for me to really work at fixing it).

The power supply that we had died last month, and they replaced it. Also, once you start to figure out their service, you can, in fact, get competent people to talk to you (but you have to listen to an awful lot of crap on the phone if you don't remember what number to press for what sub-service ).

And they don't suck as bad as Fairpoint Communications (the New England landline provider). No one does.

Wendy P.

There is nothing more dangerous than breaking a basic safety rule and getting away with it. It removes fear of the consequences and builds false confidence. (tbrown)

[kcjen24 0]

I've had U-Verse for a couple of years... getting ready to get rid of it. Have "middle of the road" internet package with basic cable. Internet connection has been mediocre at best. My basic that had some decent channels for basic, has turned into the major networks and cartoon channels... Oh yeah, with an increase of $20/month about a year ago.

Giving ATT U-Verse a

[BIGUN 1,488]

OK Thanks All...

Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard.