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x30n_ Review by x30n_
UPDATED: 2.3 years ago
member for 9.1 years, 2106 visits, last login: 38 days ago
 Canyon Country,Los Angeles,CA
 $107 per month
 about 6 days
 "About the same price I was paying for TW, but now I have cables boxes in three rooms instead of two."
 "Its ATT, but willing to give it a shot."
 "So far, so good"
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I chould have had a sooner install date, but I it would have taken me out of work all day as they stated it would be a custom install and it could take up to 8 or more hours. So I elected to have it done on saturday.
2wire modem/gateway/wifi router, VDSL, all connections in the apartment could have gone cat5 or RG6. I selected RG6 as all the cat5 connections where in strange places. Someone wasnt thinking when they wired the place.
Here is a speedtest I did as of the date of this review.
www.speedtest.net/result/159826161.png
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sglaser1 Review by sglaser1
Posted: 2.3 years ago
member for 7.3 years, 475 visits, last login: 5 days ago
Frisco,Collin,TX
Contract price not specified.
"Something is fishy"
"very frustrating experience"
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I live in Frisco Texas and I have been trying to get U-Verse service. They are installing
all over the Apartments. When I check availability on their web site it says I cant
get it but every other apartment number in my building can get it. The apartment right
across from me can get it but it says I cant. Seems like there is something
wrong on their side just seems strange that everyone around me can get it
but I cant. I spoke to someone at customer service in second level management,
called numerous times only to be told that someone will call me back and I
get no calls, doesnt seem like they want my business. It has been very
Frustrating to say the least.
Stan
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casey727 Review by casey727
Posted: 2.4 years ago
member for 5.8 years, 654 visits, last login: 1 days ago
Plano,Collin,TX
$99 per month
about 10 days
"Rock solid internet connection"
"t.v. picture quality"
"Excellent value for the $$$$"
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I have been using sbc now AT&T dsl for over 5 years and was happy. Went with the U300 t.v. with 3down/1 up internet. Install was pretty easy and the guys who did the install were very professional. They asked where I wanted everything. Install took about 4 1/2 hours. Internet has been fine the only issues have been with the T.V. side of things. Picture freeze ups are the main issue. Sound is also not in sync with picture sometimes. The spotty tech support suggests rebooting your RG and set top boxes when this happens which to me is unacceptable. Hopefully these issues will be worked out, this is a very new service, and I feel competition is good. If Uverse and FIOS can give the fat cat overpriced cable companies a run for their money, I will reboot a RG once in a while. Bottom line - Internet very good - T.V. so so. This is a very good value for the price.
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ninjatutle Review by ninjatutle
Posted: 2.5 years ago
member for 3.8 years, 2197 visits, last login: 20 days ago
San Ramon,Contra Costa,CA
$95 per month
about 14 days
"Recording 4 shows at once, solid DSL, No hardware cost"
"No whole home DVR yet, can't offload shows to pc"
"Good value, no contracts!"
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$95/month for Premium Video + 3mb/1mb Internet
This is a better value then the Dish and Comcast service I previously had. Lots of HD channels. Free PVR and wireless router with service.
30sec skip on the remote. Not standard on PVR's anymore. The set top has every output known to man, well almost =) HDMI, Component, coaxial out, S-video and composite.
The install and first 2 months of video service is free.
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The Dv8or Review by The Dv8or
Posted: 2.5 years ago
member for 8.2 years, 4119 visits, last login: a few hours ago
Danbury,Fairfield,CT
Contract price not specified.
"This is a great value package that doesn't even require a phone line"
"They really need to get their act together in the ordering dept. This took me 4 months to finalize."
"The concept is great, the deployment is okay."
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This was a long time coming. AT&T announced U-Verse service in my home city of Danbury at the beginning of 2007, and I immediately called to get hooked up. After paying $54 a month for basic non-digital cable, and shelling out some 77 a month for Speakeasy (I had 1.5/384 service with 4 static IPs), this seemed like a no-brainer to me. I was originally told that I could get 8 static IPs for $15 total, but this turned out not to be true. That affected my decision a little, but not much--the idea of getting the TV package was too worth it. Because they mis-entered my address as Bethel instead of Danbury, I had a hell of a time qualifying my address. To their benefit, customer service was fantastic. They were almost all very pleasant, and called me back several times to give me updates. To not fault of the CSRs, the U-Verse address database was just flat out screwed up. After 2-3 months of fighting about this, they finally did a site survey of my home to find that I was not eligible for service, and that I should call back in 4-6 weeks. Sure enough, in that time span, one of their reps called ME, and qualified me. I went for the U400 TV package with 6/1.5 Internet service. Truck rolled out to my house on April 27, and he was all ready to do the install. Unfortunately no one told him that the same day, they had to move a bunch of VRADs, so my entire morning was wasted, and they had to reschedule. They did reschedule to May 1. They did a thorough job--rewired ALL the coax in my house and gave me a brand new drop from the pole.
Service is for the most part okay, but sometimes iffy. A few times my connection gets very fuzzy, and TV starts breaking up, along with Internet service. Twice Ive rebooted my gateway, and that seemed to fix it for awhile. For the most part, Im happy, though. I think I got a good deal. On a scale of 1-10, I give the actual implementation a 7.5, with optimism that it will get better.
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koolkid1563 Review by koolkid1563
Posted: 2.5 years ago
member for 4 years, 1373 visits, last login: a few hours ago
Houston,Harris,TX
$140 per month
about 6 days
"Wonderful speed tests, internet and TV rock solid."
"HD content doesn't look as good as it could."
"U-verse is a great new service with alot of potential."
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I have had U-verse since February, and it has been rock solid. Our RG has never gone down (aside from when I unplug it). Speed tests are very good, and don't stray too far from our advertised rate (6/1). We have the U-400 package with Elite internet.
Our VDSL signal is coming over a dedicated pair from the VDSL POTS splitter in the NID to our 2wire 3800HGV-B gateway, I am currently getting a sync speed of 27,264Kb/s downstream and 2,048Kb/s upstream to the DSLAM capped, with a max sync speed of 105,344Kb/s downstream.
I would recommend U-verse to anyone that loves a rock solid, very fast internet connection. I wouldn't quite recommend the TV package if you are really into HD content. U-verse offers 25 HD channels, but right now, they are highly compressed, and only 1 HD stream can be viewed at a time per household.
U-verse uses DHCP dynamic IP addresses, but mine has not changed in the two months that I have had it. Our install time was 4 hours, but it went by very quickly, and the install tech was really knowledgeable and was really nice. We had a problem getting our third set top (the only one to use HPNA) to sync up to the RG over HPNA. For some reason, the RG would not see the set top on the coax HPNA network. We had the box grab the first set of downloads over the Cat5 network, then everything seemed to work great!
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join:2004-04-14 | Why Fiber Why is this listed as a fiber connection. VDSL is not fiber to the subscriber, no matter what propaganda AT&T feeds us... | |
|  | koolkid1563
Premium,MVM
join:2005-11-06
Powell, WY
clubs:
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4 edits | Re: Why Fiber Technically, VDSL is a form of Fiber, as it is running on a Fiber To The Node network. Traditional ADSL runs on the PSTN system to the CO, VDSL rides the existing copper wire to the VRAD (DSLAM). The current local loop limit is 2,500 ft from the premise to the DSLAM for U-verse. Then it is fiber from the VRAD to the RT, then a fiber trunk to the CO. | |
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join:2004-04-14
| Re: Why Fiber I would argue that technically, VDSL is a form of DSL. By the FTTN logic, most all cable would be Fiber as well, since the nodes are typically fed by fiber, which then connects via copper to the subscriber. I refuse to drink AT&T's Kool-Aid on this one, koolkid.
VDSL from a remote cabinet (be it on the side of the road or MDU basement) still delivers data to the subscriber over a copper pair, just like regular old ADSL. Standard ADSL in a remote cabinet (like the one my service uses) can be fed from fiber as well, but that doesn't turn my 3 mile long rural 1.5 Mbit service into FTTX any more than VDSL at 500 feet does. | |
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join:2005-11-06
Powell, WY
clubs:
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1 edit | Re: Why Fiber said by LostInWoods :
I would argue that technically, VDSL is a form of DSL.
Yes, it does use a form of DSL to the VRAD (DSLAM), I am not arguing that.
said by LostInWoods :
By the FTTN logic, most all cable would be Fiber as well, since the nodes are typically fed by fiber, which then connects via copper to the subscriber. With U-verse, fiber is run all the way to the DSLAM (node), and copper the rest of the way. Right now, the copper distance from the premise to the DSLAM can not exceed 2,300ft (it has been reduced). How does this not fit your description of FTTN? From the CO to the DSLAM sitting no more than 2,300ft from the premise is all fiber. Every VRAD has a DSLAM inside, and every VRAD is serviced by fiber.
said by LostInWoods :
Standard ADSL in a remote cabinet (like the one my service uses) can be fed from fiber as well, but that doesn't turn my 3 mile long rural 1.5 Mbit service into FTTX any more than VDSL at 500 feet does. That is true, and you make a great point. The only thing is, I don't know of any ADSL/ADSL2+ modem capable of speeds even close to VDSL/VDSL2. There must be a big difference somewhere in the technology feeding the two. I don't know of too many ADSL providers advertising it as FTTN, even if it is serviced out of a RT fed by fiber.
Call it what you want, but, I think AT&T is on to something. Are they the only company doing this? No, Qwest is doing the same thing, and I think they are even using VDSL to provide their IPTV services too. | |
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join:2002-07-22
Scottsdale, AZ
| Re: Why Fiber This is true, qwest is provideing FTTN and VDSL in parts of Phoenix, AZ. I have a 3/1 data connection as well as IPTV through them. The only problem is they dont have a set top DVR solution yet.
I do not qualify for Qwest's standard ADSL as I am over 25,000 feet away from the CO. But with a their VDSL I am 500 feet away from a fiber fed remote DSLAM. | |
| kshymkiw
join:2004-12-21
Columbus, OH | speed So your saying your speed is 27x2? I haven't heard anything like that from U-Verse before. I have heard of DSL speeds around 6x2, etc.. | |
| | koolkid1563
Premium,MVM
join:2005-11-06
Powell, WY
clubs: | Re: speed That is my sync to the DSLAM, my internet is the 6/1 package. The sync speed is that high because it needs to run the set top boxes for the TVs off of that pipeline as well as the internet connection. | |
| | | kshymkiw
join:2004-12-21
Columbus, OH
| Re: speed said by koolkid1563 :
That is my sync to the DSLAM, my internet is the 6/1 package. The sync speed is that high because it needs to run the set top boxes for the TVs off of that pipeline as well as the internet connection.
Better Understood now. | |
| | edinsananton
join:2006-12-08
San Antonio, TX | So I've had U-verse over a year. My sync was 25/3 back then and the rate they tested was during install - uncapped - was 44 Mb/s. This is not atypical for VDSL. | |
| m1arnett
Premium
join:2007-02-24
Wickliffe, OH
·Time Warner Cable
| Cable ???? I worked for Time Warner for years and installed about 1000 miles of Hardline, I am now a design engineer for AT&T and the cable companies have ZERO FIBER anywhere in their network, except at the base station, every major city has a couple and they are many miles from the subscriber with multiple repeaters and amps along the way, while the U-verse has Glass Fiber within 3,000 feet of the premises. It is a much better system than say a FIOS where the entire install is labor intensive and typically a pain in the ass. The U-verse system puts you on the Lightspeed Internet Backbone very fast and efficiently and uses existing tech from the node to the home. Where this system will really smash FIOS and all competitors in the Internet market is the day they roll out the IPSL system for U-verse with 100+ mbps speeds down and anywhere from 10-35 mbps upstream, these are capped figures. Uncapped figures are absolutley unadulterated with speeds reaching 200 mbps both up and down. the IPSL protocols can do these speeds right now in testing over the U-verse enabled system. | |
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copper loop
@sbcglobal.net | Re: Cable ???? Could you go into IPSL in more detail as I don't quite follow? Is it a standard protocol which is being deployed at the moment? If so, where? Thank you | |
| | GolfJan1
join:2007-12-05
| Re: Cable ???? IPSL IPSL is the technology of Rim Semiconductor which has announced 384 mbps max speed with 35 mbps available at 8,000 feet. With low latency and many other attributes, I am not surprised that ATT is testing it. Can you tell us any more about the tests?
For those who want to read more.
www.rimsemi.com
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mrmiller8 Review by mrmiller8
Posted: 2.6 years ago
member for 4.8 years, 10 visits, last login: 1.6 years ago
Houston,Harris,TX
Contract price not specified.
"5900 points!!"
"None yet"
"THIS IS THE WAY TO GO!"
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This is the new ATT U-Verse, (TV/DSL?) hook up. We went with the elite, 6 megs. Sure enough, it pumps it in up to that. Okay, 5900.
He ran coax from our phone interface to a wireless router in the house. Split off of that to the TVs. The install was smooth as silk! (Thanks Oscar)
You can program your TV to record on your Yahoo homepage! A ton of channels, plus many HD. Picture and sound is better than time warner cable. Cheaper too.
This thing is unbeliveable!! Cable and the dish are going the way of vinyl records if this thing catches on. So far so good. We just got it this morning. And no, I don't work for, or have stock with ATT. I'll let you know if we have problems. I've had all the cable and satellite providers before. No install went as smooth as this!!!!!
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