3 edits | Festering Toilet. Did anybody expect anything honest from this crap filled commode?
Uverse is essentially a scam from the ground up. From its promise of advanced fiber optic television and internet , which delivers absolutely horrendous video quality, to its billing practices, and its treatment of workers.
Att hopes your either
A: stupid enough to believe the hype
B: unfortunate to have no choice
What trash. | |
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 | | | Re: Festering Toilet. Have you looked at U-verse TV lately? I think it's gotten better since I dumped it some 18 months ago (maybe 2 years). I saw it at someone's house the other day, it didn't look half bad even with fast action sports in HD. | |
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| | | | Re: Festering Toilet. I have it. It's still the same crappy HD. But it's cheap when you're in the promo period! | |
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| | | | | Re: Festering Toilet. Hmm. I saw some posts over on the AT&T community forum claiming they were rolling out new encoders to the VRADs. And some were seeing significant improvement. | |
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| | | | | | Re: Festering Toilet. said by MyDogHsFleas:Hmm. I saw some posts over on the AT&T community forum claiming they were rolling out new encoders to the VRADs. And some were seeing significant improvement.
All of your statements are correct. They contradict the statements of the non-customers in this thread. | |
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| Re: Festering Toilet. So I went ahead and got uverse TV installed. They have a 30 day money back guarantee so no risk. I have to say I like it. I kept my TWC DOCSIS 3 Internet because its clearly faster and cheaper than uverse Internet. Also this way my Internet bandwidth is not shared with TV.
HD quality is better than I remember it last time I tried it 18 months ago or so. I find it acceptable.
More channels, less money.
Only one DVR to record 4 shows.
Wireless boxes.
Light years better UI to the STB than cable. Also much faster responsiveness navigating through the UI and switching channels.
It has apps! Personalized weather, stocks, sports scores.
I am keeping it and dumping cable TV. | |
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| | etaadmin
join:2002-01-17
Dallas, TX
kudos:1 | Yes, last week. TV picture quality is as bad as the day it was introduced to the public six years ago. Internet connection is still unstable (at that particular home) Internet speeds at least half (TWC 50Mbps) of what cable offers and worst case scenario a quarter and as much as 1/12 (300Mbps) of what Comcast offers. | |
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| | | said by DataRiker:Did anybody expect anything honest from this crap filled commode?
Uverse is essentially a scam from the ground up. From its promise of advanced fiber optic television and internet , which delivers absolutely horrendous video quality, to its billing practices, and its treatment of workers.
Att hopes your either
A: stupid enough to believe the hype
B: unfortunate to have no choice
What trash.
That first line says it all. Can't even tell the truth about their own internal plans. I mean it was a plan. Not something they were actually promising or guaranteeing.
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| | | They're a dirtbag company, so this is indeed what I expected.
In fact, I was initially shocked at their announcement that they're actually expanding. | |
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| | | After every quarter att reports the percentage of customers from homes passed, in the third quarter it was 17.8% and 4.3 million customers that would make it around 24,100,000 Homes Passed for TV/HSI. U-VERSE HSI has a longer reach and ATT reported 23% take rate and 7,100,000 customers, do the math, around 30,870,000 HP. The numbers aren't FUZZY, Mr. B needs to learn how read a quarterly report. AT&T said they will be using small form modules from the V-rads to extend the reach and speed of TV and HSI. AT&T needs to do this for its wireless network, small cells using U-VERSE and IPDSLAM for backhaul, covering 57 million customer locations will make AT&T WIRELESS difficult to compete with, in its 22 STATE footprint. | |
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join:2000-10-12
Homestead, FL
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| AT&T doesn't care My neighborhood is not in the upgrade period. Our DSL is substandard and if they even wanted to give anyone service in my area of a few houses, they would have to bond the entire pole.
I am waiting for them to just take the lines off the poles and recycle them. They would be more profitable. | |
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| | | Re: AT&T doesn't care What do you mean by "bond the entire pole?" | |
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| | rradina
join:2000-08-08
Chesterfield, MO | Re: AT&T doesn't care Guessing here but I interpret it as meaning they would have to bond every pair on the pole to get enough throughput to support U-Verse. It's an exaggeration to support his opinion on the plant quality in his area but unless I'm way off, I think it makes sense. | |
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| | etaadmin
join:2002-01-17
Dallas, TX
kudos:1 | said by EngineerDave:What do you mean by "bond the entire pole?"
Figuratively speaking and a sarcasm pointing out the technology limitations. | |
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 gaforcesUnited We Stand, Divided We Fall
join:2002-04-07
Santa Cruz, CA | Status quo They sent a Motorola NV510 which doesnt have a bridge mode and seems to be unstable.
Seems intentional they disable basic features that every other modem Ive ever seen has.
The service is still distance limited so no faster speeds here, unless we choose another internet service, like Comcast or Cruzio.
Still a dam dinosaur. UUoogha buooogha.
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| | In other news..... ....AT&T is being AT&T. | |
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| | FTTC What about those that have FTTC in the old BellSouth territory. It wouldn't take much to upgrade us. Would they really cut us too? | |
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|  NormanSPremium,MVM
join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
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| Re: FTTC said by Gilitar:What about those that have FTTC in the old BellSouth territory. It wouldn't take much to upgrade us. Would they really cut us too?
Actually, yes. They would. Upgrading the curbside boxes isn't trivial. Nobody builds replacement cards, so they must either extend the fiber to the premises, and install ONTs, a la FiOS (but AT&T has not, historically, overbuilt existing plant with fiber anywhere), or pull the fiber back to the VRADs and upgrade the copper plant. Neither is cheap, and they'd rather not expend capital for either.
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| Re: FTTC said by NormanS:said by Gilitar:What about those that have FTTC in the old BellSouth territory. It wouldn't take much to upgrade us. Would they really cut us too?
Actually, yes. They would. Upgrading the curbside boxes isn't trivial. Nobody builds replacement cards, so they must either extend the fiber to the premises, and install ONTs, a la FiOS (but AT&T has not, historically, overbuilt existing plant with fiber anywhere), or pull the fiber back to the VRADs and upgrade the copper plant. Neither is cheap, and they'd rather not expend capital for either. More power to AT&T if they do cut us. I can guarantee they lose many customers like myself on the wireless side too if they decide to cut my wired internet. | |
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| Actually not true. AT&T under Ed, back under SBC during Project Lightspeed did rebuild and replace copper with Fiber Optic direct to the homes. It was done in the Ameritech region and one areas is Carlton Michigan which is in Monroe County. Other areas have the same in Wisconsin. The copper also was removed and its direct FTTH some areas are complete FTTH some are mixed. but was rebuilt. | |
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| | | NormanSPremium,MVM
join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
kudos:9 Reviews:
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| Re: FTTC That is news, to me. Everything I read about SBC Project Lightspeed said that FTTH was only in "greenfield" communities, and everything else was FTTN. I was given a couple of examples from Pacific Telesis and Southwestern Bell.
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| Re: FTTC the SBC region PacBell, SNET and BS were treated differently. Ameritech was the only region that seen this. It was to combat munis and it worked. The only downside is the FTTH network has the same speeds as the VDSL network. The FTHH network was/is designed with 2Wire/Pace products. Even the ONTs and the gateway/router. Depending on if you have IP-DSL or U-Verse VDSL depends on if you get the 2Wire or a Mot. | |
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| | what about eastern ohio Does this leave the people in eastern ohio without u-verse. | |
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Skipig
join:2011-11-22
Parker, CO | Just seize them Why doesn't the administration just seize them (and all the other network providers as well)? Give Internet connectivity and television away free. What use do they serve? The governement can run the network, control the content (especially Fox), employ a whole bunch more people (because we wouldn't have to worry about efficiency), eliminate the profit motive and take Wall Street out of the equation. | |
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| Re: Just seize them said by Skipig:Why doesn't the administration just seize them (and all the other network providers as well)? Give Internet connectivity and television away free. What use do they serve? The governement can run the network, control the content (especially Fox), employ a whole bunch more people (because we wouldn't have to worry about efficiency), eliminate the profit motive and take Wall Street out of the equation.
Sounds like a great plan to me. Let's start a petition on the white house website. We could call it Obama Connect. LOL
I'm kidding of course! | |
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| | | Oh and you can name the new network stalin.net? | |
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| | | You only think this is funny because where you live you have more than one option for internet. In rural areas, what AT&T is planning to do is terrible. Let's hope a private provider can step in without AT&T suing or helping to regulate them out of business.
AT&T hates regulations, unless it's state laws that prevent competition. | |
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| |  antdudeA Ninja AntPremium,VIP
join:2001-03-25
United State
kudos:4
·RoadRunner Cable
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said by delltechkid:You only think this is funny because where you live you have more than one option for internet. In rural areas, what AT&T is planning to do is terrible... In my small cities, cable is the only best broadband service available. I can't get DSL and FIOS. Slow and limited satellite and dial-up exist, but why? | |
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| |  dnoyeBFerrous Phallus
join:2000-10-09
Southfield, MI
·Comcast
| Indeed. And its all possible because of the FCC and Michael Powell. When they let the Telcos get away with raping all the upstart DSL providers and killed the second hand DSL...
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| | | This MUST be a joke. I cannot fathom this comment being anything more than a piece of sarcasm.
If it is not then the intelligence of the electorate is doomed. | |
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| | Sad Yeh it's kind a sad but still not as good as prime time. | |
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| | Intended side effect of this... I am sure an intended side effect to this is that AT&T (Verizon is following to) is using this move to eliminate any of the remaining ISPs that buy DSL aggregation from AT&T.
A now retired AT&T executive told me about a 1-2 years ago that AT&T believes that if they were to find a way to end the existing contracts that 99% of those users would just switch to AT&T even if they had access to other services like Cable and Muni Fiber.
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| | | Re: Intended side effect of this... u verse is a downgrade since your ping rises substantially compared to adsl2+ | |
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| | | | Re: Intended side effect of this... My pings on U-verse VDSL were:
NY:26
Chicago:43
West Coast:95
Slightly lower than my Comcast  . | |
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| | NormanSPremium,MVM
join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
kudos:9 Reviews:
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| said by JigglyWiggly:u verse is a downgrade since your ping rises substantially compared to adsl2+
U-verse Internet is often ADSL2+. I have ADSL2+ (but not U-verse Internet). I am on interleaved, but my latency isn't bad:
Tracing route to %Friend%.dyn-dns.net [75.35.yy.zz]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 <1 ms <1 ms 1 ms homeportal [192.168.42.1]
2 25 ms 25 ms 26 ms 173-228-7-1.dsl.static.sonic.net [173.228.7.1]
3 25 ms 25 ms 24 ms gig1-4.cr1.lsatca11.sonic.net [70.36.243.13]
4 25 ms 24 ms 33 ms 0.xe-5-1-0.gw.pao1.sonic.net [69.12.211.1]
5 25 ms 25 ms 25 ms 0.xe-6-1-0.gw2.200p-sf.sonic.net [64.142.0.109]
6 26 ms 26 ms 26 ms as0.gw.200p-sf.sonic.net [208.106.96.249]
7 26 ms 26 ms 26 ms xe-10-1-0.bar2.SanFrancisco1.Level3.net [4.53.134.9]
8 28 ms 25 ms 26 ms ae-6-6.ebr2.SanJose1.Level3.net [4.69.140.154]
9 26 ms 27 ms 26 ms ae-82-82.csw3.SanJose1.Level3.net [4.69.153.26]
10 35 ms 25 ms 26 ms ae-3-80.edge2.SanJose1.Level3.net [4.69.152.143]
11 43 ms 32 ms 28 ms 192.205.32.209
12 33 ms 30 ms 30 ms cr1.sffca.ip.att.net [12.122.114.6]
13 29 ms 30 ms 30 ms 12.123.155.117
14 32 ms 30 ms 33 ms 12.122.114.25
15 * * * Request timed out.
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30 * * * Request timed out.
Trace complete.
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@comcast.net | Re: Intended side effect of this... U-verse is VDSL2. AT&T buys ADSL2+ modems and DSLAMs but has them configured for ADSL in non-Uverse properties. | |
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| | | | NormanSPremium,MVM
join:2001-02-14
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kudos:9 Reviews:
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| Re: Intended side effect of this... said by lou :U-verse is VDSL2. AT&T buys ADSL2+ modems and DSLAMs but has them configured for ADSL in non-Uverse properties.
"U-verse HSI" is definitely ADSL2+.
»IP-DSLAM FAQ
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1 edit | Finacials vs. some guy talking What I don't understand is where did the 30 million homes come from? I see the 24.5 to 33 in the press release. I tried looking back.
Was it this guy/transcript for the earnings call?
»AT&T: The U-Verse Build is Over
Where was it in the financial reports? I was just confused because the press release said TV, Internet, and Phone but I know sometimes the numbers get confused because AT&T also calls certain Phone/Internet DSL tech as U-verse too. | |
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| | | Re: Finacials vs. some guy talking Mr B. is full of _ _. In the 1st quarter release ATT reported 16.8% take rate for U-verse and 4 million customers that would be 23,810,000 homes passed. In the third quarter it was 17.8% and 4.3 million customers about 24,155,000 HP. Att said the build out would END AT 30 MILLION now that # will be 33million. Soooooo
around 8.5 million more. BIG DEAL. | |
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join:2009-05-06
Charlotte, NC | Smoke and Mirrors From what I hear from friends they could hit the 3 million extra customers by just finishing the work on half completed vrads when the Uverse build was halted a year ago. From what they say there is very little real support for Uverse and even less for DSL. They will not even move a 3meg account from DSL to Uverse if they are too far away to get the TV service. The SBC management sounds like they are a joke when it comes to executing any of their plans over the long term. | |
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| NormanSPremium,MVM
join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
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| Re: Smoke and Mirrors said by WhatNow:They will not even move a 3meg account from DSL to Uverse if they are too far away to get the TV service.
That is contradicted by reports of forced migration to "U-verse Internet" in the AT&T forums here at DSLR. Unless some government agency has it written in stone that, "If it isn't IPTV, it isn't U-verse".
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Skipig
join:2011-11-22
Parker, CO | Seize them Yes, my comment was facetious. | |
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join:2005-11-23
EARTH Reviews:
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| It's pair bonding I doubt they would totally lie if they could be held legally responsible, so my guess is they played some games with areas that didn't have the software switch for pair bonding thrown yet. They also still have a lot of crossboxes that they upgraded for U-Verse that don't have U-Verse equipment on yet.
I seriously doubt that they would actually cut DSL users off. Maybe not upgrade them, but if you're not going to put the money in, why stop collecting the subscription fees? No capital investment + constant revenue = lots of profit.
However, AT&T really needs to get with the program. If they keep doing this, they won't have a landline business left to speak of. It's already a mess. Unfortunately, the shareholders can't seem to look past the current quarter. If they could look long-term, they would be demanding that AT&T install GPON FTTH over their entire footprint.
Also, they are not at a total standstill. They doubled their available speed available at my house from 1.5mbps to 3mbps... LOL. Must have installed an IP-DSLAM. Definitely sticking with Comcast. | |
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| | Houses or cable pairs. I bet the 30 million they speak of is cable pairs not homes.
When they place a vrad next to a xbox that servers 300 homes but
has 900 cables pairs which do they count.Dollars to donuts its the later. | |
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| More twisting of reality by CEO Mr Randall Stephenson. ATT is the poster boy for evil corporations.....
Greedy
Insidious
Lying
Arrogant
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| | | | Re: More twisting of reality by CEO Mr Randall Stephenson. I can tell you that when I moved to the house I bought 4months ago the people had dsl. Now AT&T tells us all ports are available. From another message board I found out that once someone cancels they close the port. No Uverse is available . No other internet options available except hotspots or satilite both of which are very expensive.  | |
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join:2010-10-10
Verona, MS | Re: More twisting of reality by CEO Mr Randall Stephenson. You can always get ATT Dial-Up internet service for $22.95.  It is unlimited . | |
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decifal
join:2007-03-10
Bon Aqua, TN
kudos:1 | Break Wish this company would release the landlines they do not want and sell it already.. Stop asking soo much for something you deemed unprofitable and get rid of it already so maybe the rest of us might one day see real options in the area... | |
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