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Review by netwerp 
member for 2.4 years, 25 visits, last login: 1 days ago
updated 1 days ago
 Evans,Columbia,GA
 $48 per month about 30 days AT&T "Price, Speed: 6+ mbs, runs multiple Netflicks, youtube & games, no contract" "Frequent line drops by modem - haven't been able to determine the source." "Want improved service."
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We have two competing cable companies here, Comcast and Knology (now "WOW". Knology based in Charleston, SC, sold to "WOW", aka gowow.com.) I've had contracts with both. I no longer want a contract. Customer service with Comcast is infamous; Knology wasn't much better when I had it and GoWOW, while reputedly very good, has not made competitive offers. I needed to get another ADSL+ modem or modem-router to determine if the fault is with the line or service or if it's just my Dlink modem-router. Speed was good enough but the service got connection drops when things got busy on weekends and after school let out on Friday. I ordered the premium speed rate available here for DSL but without a land line telephone and no cable or satellite TV. I used my own modem because I found it's cheaper than paying rent. I got money back (rewards) from AT&T as incentive to switch from cable and because I use my own equipment. Speed is guaranteed to be 6 mbs . My modem-router is a Dlink DSL-2640B. Setting up the modem for DSL was a problem and took me a couple weeks to get it right. I chose AT&T DSL for the price advantage, no contract and the monetary rewards. And also for the experience of using and setting up DSL. Another (security) advantage is that my IP changes whenever there's a line drop. However, this seems to be standard operating procedure among ISPs. Changed back to Comcast no contract in 2012.
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Review by unclebg
member for 12.1 years, 996 visits, last login: 3 days ago
updated 3 days ago
- Healdsburg,Sonoma,CA
- $40 per month
- (12 month contract)
- AT&T
- "better than it used to be"
- "TOO da.. expensive. Refuse to change anything due to U-verse"
- "If I could find something else that wouldn't cost me an arm and a leg, I'd be outta here!"
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I can't really say anything good about ATT DSL. They keep changing my package every time they do something to U-verse. Went from $30 to $
40 in a matter of a couple of months. Called and told them to put me back where I was. I was in not so polite terms, We can't change your speed or cost now that U-verse is available in your area. And she said you can always go to someone else!!! Boy AT&T is really getting too big for their britches.
If I could afford to go with someone else I would. But too many hoops to jump thru, along with hook-up cost and other assorted crap. I will keep these animals for as long as I have to, but as soon as I can bail, I WILL!!! Don't trust these guys as far as you can throw them. Real pain to work with. Won't cut any slack nor give someone a break. Fixed income and ATT just don't work at all together!
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 | | trying to be like Comcast, all IP based! AT&T is forcingly moving customers from the "old" DSL to the "new" Uverse DSL. AT&T is calling it an upgrade when in all realities its just a way for them to move away from being regulated to IP based services which are not regulated. Bottom line they can and will do anything they want once you are all IP based!
To all new customer, if you are told DSL is not available. That just uverse is, its a lie! ATT policy is to put everyone on IP based services. Older DSL is not an IP based service. | |
| | | | Re: trying to be like Comcast, all IP based! Doesnt your old legacy adsl1 have a IP address?
Dont get fooled,CO based adsl2 is being branded as uverse but in fact is just different flavor of the same thing. | |
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Review by nakins
member for 9.5 years, 35 visits, last login: 3 days ago
lodged 3 days ago
- Benton,Saline,AR
- $25 per month
- AT&T
- "Crap lines, crap modems"
- "How much crap will you take?"
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When I first got DSL, it was really nice. That was several years ago. I'm getting to where I really hate it now. My download speed is about 3 times as fast as my old 56k modem. I lose sync several times during the day, and have to unplug the modem and plug it back in. I know part of it is the lines as there has been a lot of recent construction where the lines are laid. But, the modem has been crap since I got it. And I'm tired of spending a hundred bucks every year so for a frickin modem. I don't have cable or sat. That might change soon.
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Review by ajnelson
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updated 5 days ago
- Indianapolis,Marion,IN
- $76 per month
- AT&T
- "Reliable"
- "Provided hardware is junk. Support is overseas and terrible.Speed for the cost is poor."
- "If you have another option, take it."
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I've had DSL through ATT since 2005, and other than a cable modem from BHN, I really don't have any other options. We are in an area where U-Verse internet (only, not tv) is available now, and I could in theory have 18down/1 up speed if I switch to that. Cost listed includes cost for home phone.
However every time I need to deal with ATT I want to pull my hair out. Support is awful and as remote as it gets. I've taken to trying to deal with them over chat because every phone call is an exercise in futility.
I spend 40 minutes convincing them that I'm competent and that there is actually a problem. Same happens on chat, and they aren't much more helpful but at least I can be doing other things while I deal with it.
I pay for 6Mbps down / 512 up (which they call ELITE!). I get about 4.4Mbps down in testing. Ping is usually 25ms.
2Wire equipment supplied over the years has failed multiple times, and I got sick of paying for it. I bought my own D-Link DSL modem, and I have a LinkSys wireless router running DD-WRT.
I can't WAIT to drop them.
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1 edit | I have the elite tier at the house I typically get 4.9 to 5.1 down and .59 to .63 upstream. or as I like to look at it 600.1kb/s and 77kb/s upstream.
Are you getting close to that? | |
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so that would be 550KBps down 78KBps up. Not exactly breakneck, but it is in the ballpark of what speed tier I pay for I suppose. I should also mention if I look for upgrades online, it doesn't show that one is available, and I only learned the mid level u-verse internet only upgrade was available by backing into that information during a support chat. Very strange. | |
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Review by overworked00
member for 8.1 years, 1289 visits, last login: 12 days ago
updated 16 days ago
- Ripley,Brown,OH
- $35 per month
- (12 month contract)
- about 3 days
- AT&T
- "its dsl"
- "none"
- "for where i am im happy"
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i live in the country and for 5 years att has said that dsl is not available where i live then last week it is
fast install tech guy was quick about the install
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lodged 21 days ago
- Atascadero,San Luis Obispo,CA
- Contract price not specified.
- (12 month contract)
- "AT&T technicians are hard-working and bend over backwards to address issues."
- "AT&T's proprietary modem/router (NVG510) sucks resulting in a very bad Internet experience."
- "Pretty unreliable download speeds."
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AT&T's U-verse Internet service could potentially be good. With Charter
promising 30 mbps but often providing 2-3 mbps, AT&T has a perfect
chance to trump that with a reliable 6 mbps. But unfortunately, AT&T
couldn't put it's hand in the cookie jar and grab just one cookie. They
revamped their offering with a proprietary signal, enlisted Motorola to
make a cheap modem/router and forced customers to buy it for $100. The
Motorola NVG510 is a special kind of crappy and it's the only DSL modem
that will work with AT&T's system. Google it along with "Computerworld"
and read how astonishingly bad this box is and how it times out on Mac
computers especially. What I hear from AT&T service techs is that the
company is pushing VoIP to run through these doorstops, and the techs
are pulling their hair out. Anyway, I think AT&T does a far better job
of maintaining their equipment than Charter. When I first started with
AT&T I reported these problems and the AT&T techs actually replaced
equipment on the pole outside and at a some kind of junction a few
blocks away - all for my Internet connection. Unfortunately, the techs
can't do anything about the NVG510.
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| | re: att dsl I had att 6.0 but it kept being unreliable i was getting close to 4.0 on a good night or say late at night sometime 5.0 finally went to comcast 50/10 so far not looking back. | |
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Review by Jeff35582
member for 10.5 years, 50 visits, last login: a few hours ago
lodged 22 days ago
- Snellville,Gwinnett,GA
- $78 per month
- AT&T
- "There is absolutely nothing good about AT&T IFITL DSL Service"
- "Speeds, drastically oversubscribed probably 10-20 fold normal industry oversubscription levels"
- "Stay as far away from AT&T as you possibly can."
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For years now the services is almost unusable in the evenings.
From 6:00 PM onward it gets progressively worse speeds get lower that 56K modem speeds. Latency, ping times make accessing text based forums and websites a grind and anything with any kind of media barely tolerable to outright intolerable.
Repeated complaints filed with the Georgia Public Service commission yeild nothing but a call from some department in AT&T that applies some credits, apologizes and closes the case.
When this service was initially installed under the control of Bellsouth, it was great and when AT&T took over it was still fine, as AT&T continued to add customers and neglecting the infrastructure it began to degrade. When enough pressure is applied they will move to do the minimal upgrades to make the service usable, but it will degrade rapidly because they are already oversubscribing it so drastically.
The support people are mostly contemptuous and are there only to get users connected that are incapable of doing it on their own. If you have a problem that is on AT&T's side you can not get anywhere by talking to their support. Your equipment is blamed and they refuse to look at or pass along supporting data to a higher tier.
The support department is rated on case resolution, and when they manage to get you off the phone they mark the case resolved and move on the the next victim/customer.
»forums.att.com/t5/Email-Internet···/2020831
The same issues have crept up on me again, that I was having here in this thread on AT&T's official forums. My issue never got resolved until one of AT&T's techs saw it on this site and sent me a PM.
Maybe I can get some help int the AT&T dedicated forums here as I can no longer locate the PM from him.
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Review by beccaali
member for 103 days, 17 visits, last login: 10 days ago
updated 25 days ago
- 60642
- $84 per month
- about 1 days
- AT&T
- "When it worked it was a solid connection."
- "Frequent disconnects, bad support"
- "If you have elaternatives to this, use them"
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I have had this DSL line since 2002. A lot of changes have happened since then. When it was sbcglobal, the service was great. Their tech support was top notch. They resolved an outage I had in 3 days.
Fast forward to 2010 when I found out they had shipped a lot of their tech support to India when I was having an issue. Then the data caps started. They had frequent area outages without notification. Now I am one of the users that experiences frequent drops in connection every 1 or so in the evenings and nights. This is horrible service that keeps getting worse.
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Review by bigozone1
member for 101 days, 19 visits, last login: 23 days ago
lodged 51 days ago
- Corbin,Whitley,KY
- $53 per month
- about 3 days
- BellSouth
- "Great service back in 2002 when installed.. Overall good service, but aging!!"
- "only upgraded once from 3Mbs to 6Mbs which are rarely achieved due to lenght from DSLAM"
- "with SLOW SPEEDS and INCREASING prices it's value is iffy at best."
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back 10 years ago it was great, and after doubling in speed it helped the service stay relevent. But now with AT&T trying to get out of being the provider of the LAST MILE in my state and having succeeded in many others, it seems the days of Land Line Copper that OUR USF taxes funded have been hijacked by the FCC thru the lobbying of the TELECOs for the purpose of expanding their CELL networks and forcing as many people as possible to the more expensive, more profitable wifi just because they can thru exerting the power of their money on our legislators. all this while we've sat by and let it happen.
i know one thing, AT&T has lost a land line customer for life.
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 Review by user17600
member for 10.7 years, 400 visits, last login: a few hours ago
updated 52 days ago
- Boston, MA
- $19 per month
- (12 month contract)
- Southern New England Telephone
- "Willing to extend"
- "When it goes bad, it's really bad"
- "Goodbye ATT, hello VZ (relocation)"
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Have had SNET/SBC/ATT for phone service since we moved to the area in 2005. Started with Eastern Connecticut Cable for HSD but quickly switched to DSL due to pricing ($70 vs $15 per month!). Moved from 1.5Mb connect to elite 6.0Mb connection in 2007.
Until recently (October 2010) the elite connection has been rock solid at 5.3-5.4 (overhead reduces the actual). But then started peaking at 1.2Mb, and it's taken some time to resolve. Other than this glitch (which seems to now be resolved, after a week or two), I've been quite satisfied with the price/performance ratio.
I would note that when I call at renewal time, I ask to be switched to the retention folk, who have always been willing to give me the new customer pricing without too much discussion.
It's when I have problems that the issues arise. Repair service for the phone line (static, dropped calls, etc) or low speeds always seems to be protracted. When it works, it's great, when it doesn't sometimes getting it fixed can be a problem.
---Update July 2012---
After being a satisfied customer for nearly 8 years, I'm on the verge of switching back to cable. About 4 weeks ago (mid-June) our speeds dropped from a rock-solid 5.3mbps to under 2mbps most nights. Opened multiple tickets without resolution, finally opened a case in the ATT direct forum. We're told that it is "network congestion" and there is nothing they will do about it. That's all. Even had a nice man from the office of the president (really?) call and tell me he understood if I switched. To his credit he did give us a refund of the next few month's service fees, and left his contact info, but congestion they know about and can't fix it? My experience seems to support the fact that ATT is trying to kill off their wireline customers. When I called the state PUC, I'm told DSL isn't regulated, "just move on". Nice. Wish I'd stayed in a Verizon area.
---Update March 2013---
Wish granted! Company has relocated us back to a VZ area and we've had FIOS installed. What a refreshing difference! Even my cheap doubleplay is 6 times the max speed ATT ever gave me, at about the same price.
Bye, ATT, hello VZ!
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