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Re: FTTP in D/FW TX?? Thanks.  It's (::knocking on wood::) been fairly stable for the last week or so.
We ended up replacing the modem (the one we had was about 6 years old), which cleared up one set of problems and made the actual line problems easier to see. Not easier for the line guy to track down, but easier to at least show that it's not on our end. The worst of it was actually at the same time they were doing a lot of work in the big metal box at the end of our street (which the line guy told my hubby was related to the fiber going in) so I actually wonder if they weren't mucking some things up in the process.
We'll still lose signal off an on for about 15 minutes at a time every few days, but it's not the horrific mess it was, where we couldn't get any work done from home or even check our email. We keep looking for a common denominator (time of day, weather, planes flying overhead, you name it) but we haven't seen it yet. It's acting like a noise/interference problem.
If/when it starts up again badly, the new modem has excellent diagnostics, and hopefully we can get someone to believe us and start tracing it without going through 4 hours of "take the router out of the setup" and "reset the modem" and "reboot the computer" and arguing with me about which account login will work or not, and actually track the damned problem down. (Yes, we went 10 rounds with a tech this last time who insisted that the secondary account I'd set up for the modem to use to log in for the PPPoE wouldn't work because it wasn't the primary account -- which is my personal account -- even though it's been working fine for 4 years.) And now that I've found this forum, I'll **DEFINITELY** make use of it. It's refreshing to find rational people with useful information!!! |
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| Just as an FYI we got FTTH (all the way to the house) in Northern Richardson last year and I procured the Fiber DSL 3mb package and it works great. The bad news is the UVSERE is still not available in this area. AT&T is saying perhaps later this year they'll open up our area to UVERSE. |
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 MarkyDPremium
join:2002-08-20
Oklahoma City, OK | said by bigdmrk1110:Just as an FYI we got FTTH (all the way to the house) in Northern Richardson last year and I procured the Fiber DSL 3mb package and it works great. The bad news is the UVSERE is still not available in this area. AT&T is saying perhaps later this year they'll open up our area to UVERSE. I'm FTTP in Oklahoma City, and they told me that there are no "immediate plans" to offer UVERSE in ANY FTTP areas, period. Makes NO sense...but I heard it from two different techs.
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said by bigdmrk1110:Just as an FYI we got FTTH (all the way to the house) in Northern Richardson last year and I procured the Fiber DSL 3mb package and it works great. The bad news is the UVSERE is still not available in this area. AT&T is saying perhaps later this year they'll open up our area to UVERSE. Interesting. If they bring FTTH, I'd be very happy to get fiber internet service (assuming I can get 6MB service) and would be just as happy staying with Dish TV. It's **NOT** the TV service I'm after, just a more reliable DSL-type connection. I don't game (other than the occasional jaunt on Second Life or a Chuzzle challenge) or host any servers, I just need a good, fast, but most importantly RELIABLE internet connection for bringing work home, and my Pandora feed. |
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