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Sad to see how bad their service has dropped member for 22.3 years, 4468 visits, last login: 128 days ago updated 4.5 years ago
At&t Fiber 1Gig member for 18.1 years, 877 visits, last login: 145 days ago updated 5.8 years ago
Fast hookup and bang for your buck seems SBC has improved there DSL service by leaps and bounds from the what use to be inept service. Update: About three weeks and I still have the same IP address and the connection has been solid. 4-14-2004: SBC Yahoo DSL still and $27 for 1.5 megabits is great price or $45 for 3 to 6 megabits is even better. Service has been rock solid, no outages. 11-15-2004: 1500~256 is still $26.95 and 3000~384 is $36.95. June 2005: Well they lowered the price and now for $14.95 you get 1500/384 and for $24.95 you get 3000/512. That's low and I have to say a GREAT deal. February 2006: Well they lowered the price again and increased the speed. 1500/384 is $12.99 and 3000/512 is $17.99 June 2007: AT$T is still dragging their feet when it comes to deploying fiber. Verizon is way ahead with their Fios project. January 2008: Prices have gone back up to $24.95 for 3000/512. August 13, 2008 For the love of baby Jesus upgrade you network so third world countries don't pass us by!!! January 2010: $25 for 6000/512 is ripoff now and friends with Fios laugh. November 2015: Cable is faster but more expensive and less reliable here. I like to save money now. I guess at&t made the right decision with deploying fiber to the node. It streams movies, YouTube, browsing, etc. all just fine. My needs are met and the price is low. member for 23.2 years, 3886 visits, last login: 4.1 years ago updated 8.3 years ago
Updated 08/10/15 - Well i took a job with AT&T as a wire tech for over a year, and of course they can stick their NDA where the sun will never shine. In short highly annoying and over priced service. Even at the employee discount of 50% their services are better demonstrated by other providers in most of Wisconsin and Illinois. I had vdsl Bonded pair/did the install and cleaned up the line outside myself. In short perfect like all of my installs. Note; AT&T uses metrics to base your Technicians performance on. What this means is if they complete your 2 tv install with internet and voip and you didn't have existing cat5 you probably got screwed especially when they are done in under 2 hours and your modem is now in the basement rafters for your convenience. AT&T brands everything as UVerse even old copper coming from the Central Office, I cancelled so many installs being truthful and honest with customers in how their existing 30meg cable internet blows us away. Interestingly enough this REALLY kills your metrics much like the customer cancelling service 2 weeks later because they are tired of their 1meg service on a 12k foot loop. An honest and hardworking employee is screwed either way, the lazy senior techs are typically chummy with the garage managers getting all sorts of special exception time for screwing customers over are rewarded. AT&T is that proverbial company that is quite satisfied telling your Grandma how dirty she is so they can sell an over priced Vacuum cleaner to. The meat; I have confirmed service throttling myself in MANY customers homes and my own and in no respect to line quality concerns or caps. Popular services such as YouTube are throttled and the buffering on a supposed 45meg bonded pair actually running at 65megs a pair is laughable as service. $85 once my discount ran out for a 45/5meg service or go back to Charter with 60/5 ZERO BUFFFERING and my bill is what they told me over the phone is an easy choice. I like honest companies and this has been my experience with Charter Internet and DishNetwork for TV. Updated 3/29/10 - UVerse is available but Charter got their act together in my area. $67 a month Uverse 12down 2 up or $43 a month Charter HSI 20 down and 2 up. Charter Wins although it is nice to have options if Charter decides to start losing packets again for 3 years :P Updated 3/07/2008 - Cable is kicking your ass in my area AT&T. Where is uVerse? Why did I help you lobby for new franchising rules? Pick up the pace! Updated 1/13/2008 - Farewell my good old friend dsl! I have enjoyed our two and a half years together. Cable is going to have to work hard to match your reliability and stability. I just cannot drive down the i at 55 any longer. Updated 10/26/07 - Wow! Got help from an uber asi tech here at dslreports who helped me ramp my 1.3 down/312 up rock solid dsl to 2.5 down/412 up with some leg work on my part. Still he went above and beyond! Checked out Charter Cable again. Bah. Almost 2 years later and they still leave a bad taste in my mouth. Still I had to ponder test driving until I discovered that AT&T's dsl price still beats Charter Cable in my area by about 25% in my case. Charter should take note that upload speeds and no packet loss are important. Keep up the damn fine work and roll out that next gen network AT&T. You have my business and now my Cellphone business as well! Good job ASI!! Holy Schnikes I cannot explain how happy I am to finally be rid of the Cable Co Pigopolists! $49.00 a month for Charter's HSI @ 320down/112up with huge packetloss issues in Chicago for four years which make their service not much faster than dialup depending on where you visit on the web. They compensate by offering me their 3 meg plan which I had had for the last two years for another $10.00 a month? I was happy when the price reflected their service. In comparison AT&T (Formerly SBC) is now providing me with 1300/328 for $14.00 dollars a month with a wireless modem for $30.00 so I can play my XBox, Psp and Nintendo DS online. SOLD!!! Downside is that after my Charter Telephone debacle I got rid of all landline communications in favor of Cellular. Thusly I had to reestablish a home phone at more unneeded expense. However that phone and the internet combined is now only $5.00 a month more than my old Charter Internet alone. To me it was simple. Stick it to the man (Charter) for fracking with a satisfied internet customer of 5 years! member for 21 years, 734 visits, last login: 4.6 years ago updated 8.6 years ago
Update: 6/19/09 Have U-verse now. No complaints Update: 6/18/05 My download speeds have doubled. Now at 645/300. It's not the latest, greatest speeds, but I'm happy for now. Update: 4/2/05 Nothing new with my DSL. Still slow speeds, but better than nothing. Update 5/17/04 I'd just like to thank Annonamoose for helping me with a DSL outage problem that happened overnight. Everything is up & running again. Update 3/28/04 I had a line test from the NID & I guess I'm stuck with 384/256 & no upgrades in sight in the near future. My line at 384 is at 44% capacity & anything higher probably wouldn't work right,. I'll guess i'll let my contract expire & move over to Comcrap. My thanks to the techs here that tried to get better service for me. Update 11/26 I noticed a $14.00 charge on my Nov. bill & had no idea what it was. I sent an IM to Annoamoose & he couldn't help me with my problem, but gave me the right phone number to call & got a credit after 10 minutes on the phone. I said it once & i'll say it again, the techs here are very helpful. I've been a SBC customer for two years on the 768/128 plan & I never had any problems. Now I just bought a new house & that's when the fun started. When I tried to get service in my house I got jostled around from person to person & I was told I could get it, then I was told I couldn't get it since I was told I'm a credit risk. I made a final call to billing & they signed me up. I sent a IM to Annoamoose & he/she told me my order is in the system. 5 days later I got my new installation kit, plugged the new modem in & I was running at 160/100. I never heard of the ramp up process before & after a couple of days, I was up to only 313/108. I sent a IM to beach boy & he told me to get back to him in November. I really don't have anything else to say, except I wish I could at least get what I used to at my old place. It's still a lot better than dial up though & I will never give Comcast any money. member for 20.5 years, 3151 visits, last login: 222 days ago updated 8.6 years ago
January 2014 after the bill got too high, at&t started capping legacy DSL users, Which also capped our Directv video on Demand. So we made family decision to leave at&T. Made the choice to switch back to Cable Internet, Cable TV (From at&t directv) and also WOW phone.. While at&t was stable and worked pretty well. It was time for more speed, and such--Thank you at&T staff and group for great years of use March 2012--Lately More Lag in Second Life 3D Game, Higher Pings or Packet loss at times, but overall the connection i guess is stable, maybe just Secondlife Servers and at&t Routing, Still using Motorola 2210 modem, and Netgear WGR614V10 Router, Can Try the at&t 2wire device if anyone thinks it will help the issue i'm having lately. Overall support has been good though--instant replies from DSL Direct, and phone support was helpful last time i called in Windows 7 64bit is main PC-hard wired 2 Laptops on the connection off and on Windows phone 7-wiress Ipod touch-wireless DIrectv whole home service--wired 2 Desktop PC's wireless Modem is currently filtered, as phone support said i needed it filtered since this is a line share line, but phone isn't hooked up on that jack in there--so if i don't really need it, then i'll just plug modem in directly to jack like before Fall 2011 Still Going Strong, Called into get my at&t data connect device cancelled recently, while speaking to the nice rep in Billing, got offered the following $8.00 off Home Phone part of Combined bill Elite Internet For $19.95 for a whole year as well Both of those discounts for a year So Still a Nice Happy Camper here with at&t dsl Our at&t directv is working well as well Spring of 2011 Additonal Now Have Directv On Demand as well, and Movies are Quickly Downloaded to our Receiver, So far still under cap amount according to our Router, so still very happy And No i'm not an at&t employee, I'm just a Happy at&t yahoo dsl user! Service is Running Great, 100 Percent uptime, No lag, Modem and Router working Great, Upcoming Caps shouldn't be a problem, as i'm monitoring with our Netgear Router-Not even close to go over with 6 PC's on the network and Nintendo Wii, but we don't stream netflix or anything like that Keep up the Great Work and Service At&t. Occasonal Lag with Second Life program, but i blame that more on the Second life servers than at&t, as i don't experience any problems in other online games!! August 26th 2010: Excellent uptime, fantasic speed, Motorola 2210 still going well, and same router as last review going very well. did replace 2wires power supply in case i ever need a backup Support: times i had to call in no problems, and at&t direct support excellent, and a wonderful resource Keep up the Great Work at&T!! February 18th 2010: Service Speed is Excellent, Online Gaming Fantasic, Nothing so far beats the Price of at&t yahoo dsl, Support has been excellent with us, only had to call in a few times, and issue is usually resolved quickly. As i stated in all my previous reviews--a Very Satisified At&t yahoo dsl customer. Forgot to mention in my September Review Update--buying a new motorola 2210 Modem at Walmart was simple and hookup and configuration of it was also very simple after our 2wires power supply died.(Someday may replace that though) But So Far My older Netgear WRG614V6 is working very well with the service... Keep up the Good work at&t employees and keep the same reliable service we've come to expect If Bandwidth caps ever come to at&t i'll provide stay with them anyways, just cut down on some of my downloading, unless it affects programs i use day in and day out, example like SecondLife(which uses alot of bandwidth), Sam Broadcaster, Skype, Online Radio and such September 2nd 2009: Service Still Going Great, Any Issues i've had Been Solved Quickly Thru either at&t internet phone support or thru at&t direct here in the dslreports forum. These days I Dj every day in Second Life, Skype at times, Yahoo Messenger, Online gaming, All in All as i said in last review--Very Satisfied with At&t High Speed DSL service. Will Keep on using it for the future, and when uverse is available, may consider switching to that, but then again may not be as reliable as this has been for us February 6th 2009: Service Still Rock Solid, 2wire modem still working Good, Had some Minor service outages, but those were resolved in a timely fashion, from my last review still do alot of internet stuff, voice over ip with yahoo messenger, skype sometimes, Online game, Dj in a Computer program occasionally, All in all Great Service. Could still use more speed though, but for the price cannot beat the realiability with at&t yahoo dsl For 5 PC's Excellent Service Mcafee From at&t yahoo--excellent, no problems with it so far, currently have it installed on 2 of the 5 Pc's, but will be installing on the laptop later on this evening 4/29/2008: Bought 2wire DSL modem/router in December 2007, to replace old DSL modem and Netgear Router that died after a power outage. Service is excellent still, like the 2wire modem alot, online gaming doesn't boot as much with the new 2wire modem, Still do all the same stuff i used to with the old router. Hopefully more Internet speed comes in the future, but for now great service, great speed, low pings for online gaming, video watching, voice over ip. Do more with at&t yahoo dsl than i ever did with my Wideopenwst Cable internet, mind you when i had that service, top speed i think was 4.0mbps download and 512 or 384 upload, 6mb and 768 is awesome speed to me I'm very happy with this service thus far, the speed is great even with 3-4 PC's doing stuff on the network, The modem was easy to setup to work with my wireless router when i got it, the setup of the service was extremely excellent. Nice service for the price and the contract term, and I look forward to staying with it for many years to come. Can't beat the price for such a decent service--as far as I know $26.95(was the toal when i was on Express package, new total is $28.20 with Elite(6016/768 package) Elite is a great package, as much as we use internet, having the extra speed from Express, Pro, Elite helps out alot, I download videos, (legal videos), online gaming, voice over ip with skype or yahoo messenger voice. with 4-5 PC's active constanly... So I rate this service as excellent, the times i did have to speak to support was always great at solving problems..and getting issues resolved....So very happy customer, and plan to stay with SBC(At&T yahoo DSL) for a long long time 10/04/2007 Update: Very Happy with the Service, No Downtime, excellent online game, all around wonderful service, will be with at&t yahoo dsl for years. Totally Awesome service, online gaming is great with this service. member for 21.9 years, 5027 visits, last login: a few hours ago updated 10.1 years ago
After suffering several years with poor DSL service, I was offered a promo to upgrade to U-Verse with promised reliability and speed improvements at a lower cost. This was a bundle package with my POTS service. AT&T installed U-Verse with their standard NGV510 wireless router and I immediately started experiencing problems. 1) I was still experiencing dropouts but their "brain dead" NGV510 modem exasperated the problem by redirecting those 404 error pages to a diagnostic page within the router which told me to check my DSL filters. (you don't need or use filters with U-Verse) Once the NGV510 router hijacks that page, it caches that error page in my computers history so that any successive attempt to go to that site pulls up that cached error page instead. The only way to recover is to delete all history from the browser ---- unacceptable. 2) AT&T has locked down this router so that the customer is unable to change its DNS settings. You are forced to use the AT&T specified settings. My line dropouts and or 404 errors may have been caused by a poor copper line or it may have been their lousy DNS system. I do not know. 3) The NGV510 router does not have the configuration settings to place it in Bridge mode so that I can install my 802.11/ac Apple Time Capsule behind it which pretty much leaves that T/C as an expensive paper weight. My T/C worked very well on my previous DSL network using their 2-Wire DSL modem/router. 4) The run around I was getting from AT&T's tech support was unacceptably exasperating and we finally agreed there was nothing they could do to solve my issues and I demanded they uninstall U-Verse and return my connection back to DSL. They told me that DSL was no longer available for my address and I explained that it was only one week ago that I had been using it. They finally agreed to switch me back after I threatened to dump AT&T altogether. member for 13.1 years, 8 visits, last login: 10.3 years ago lodged 10.3 years ago
We used to have AT&T DSL and it was reliable. We recently switched to Uverse for faster speeds. The service has gone down multiple times, and we've had multiple service calls. They've replaced the AT&T box and wiring on the house, replaced the wiring going into the house, replaced the jack and wiring inside the house, and it still goes down frequently. We've got our fourth service call scheduled for tomorrow. For some reason it seems to go down when it rains. We live in a technological black hole where only AT&T and New Wave Communications are available. If this service call doesn't fix it, I will be trying New Wave. member for 22.6 years, 2804 visits, last login: 3 years ago updated 10.3 years ago
Would like to get faster speeds,need a closer RT or something. I am currently at 19.95 a month for the express pkg for adding long distance to my phone service. For anyone looking for DSL in there area AT&T is a good choice in my opinion. Not happy now with $5 increase a month... member for 20.4 years, 5338 visits, last login: 10.2 years ago updated 10.5 years ago
Had no regrets going with AT&T best service for the price!! I would suggest anyone looking for DSL to try AT&T in my opinion they are great. U-Verse is here, but reluctant to try it because of the rumors of many problems. Not happy now with $5 a month increase plus having previous e-mail problems... member for 20.4 years, 5338 visits, last login: 10.2 years ago updated 10.5 years ago |