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4 edits | reply to Yogibear227
Re: Uverse is FTTN not FTTP
said by Yogibear227 :
You will care when you can't Tivo a show cause your watching HDTV and you don't have enough bandwidth cause your kids are gaming. Or when your wife wants to watch one HDTV program and you want to watch another. Or when your children want to game on the net and you want to do your work for the next day; you won't mind if they take your bandwidth & knock you off.
You make a valid point, but some of this need not apply to U-verse. The RG has dedicated throughput set aside for IPTV. Gaming, or surfing the internet will not affect how many TVs can be on, or take up a TV stream. Now, as far as the two HD streams, that is a valid point, and is true with U-verse as it is today. The gaming + work issue? I have had two halo2 games (not in the same game) on Xbox Live running at the same time, and yet, our internet didn't slow down to the point where it was unusable, infact, I didn't notice any slowdown at all (in general web usage). BTW, I was also watching TV on a HD channel, and our TV downstairs was watching a SD channel...all at the same time. It has been reported, that the HD streams are running at ~8Mb/s, with SD streams ~3-4Mb/s. I would learn about how the U-verse system actually works before you put the service down. Sure it is only FTTN, but it works...for now. If AT&T wanted to, their Alcatel FTTN DSLAMs can be switched out for FTTP if the future so requires it, and it most likely will.
said by Yogibear227 :
The reason they can deliver ONLY 6Mbs is because the system of FTTN is limited to 25Mps BANDWIDTH. Do you even know what you are talking about? Get your facts before making assumptions. The VDSL sync is CAPPED at 27Mb/s, that is NOT its maximum by any means. My RG is reporting a max sync rate of 105Mb/s...and it can only go up when they upgrade to a true VDSL2 profile. Right now, they are on a "hybrid" profile so to speak that is in-between VDSL and VDSL2.
said by Yogibear227 :
the also must deliver more bandwidth to allow you to TIVO in HDTV mode. Since when does recording a TV show ever take up more bandwidth than actually watching it? That is just not true, a stream is a stream.
said by Yogibear227 :
The Cable company Digital Cable is actual Coax Fiber & Copper and it is thicker than twisted pair phone line. I didn't see my cable modem report that it could give me 105Mb/s over the cable network...And, if you actually look at the cable that comes into your NID from your pedestal, you will see that the copper core is about the same gauge, maybe slightly smaller, than the copper core of a RG-6 coaxial cable.
said by Yogibear227 :
Your $74 is an introductary rate only for 3 months. What is the rate after 3 months Same as Comcast Again, learn your facts before posting. The "introductory rate" is free TV for two months, then it goes to whatever your package states, in his case, $74 a month. The only thing you pay for for the first two months is internet. I am on the U-400 + HD + elite internet, and it is only $140 a month plus something like $11 in government fees.One other thing you got wrong, there are no fees for wireless networking...it is all integrated in the RG...I don't know where you got that from. If you read the TOS correctly, it says "Separate purchase of adapter may be required for wireless networking." This is for the wireless ADAPTER for your computer if you don't already have one, not for wireless service on the RG...There is a one-time fee for installation of $50, but they give you a $50 Visa® Rewards Card to compensate for the installation cost, so it is actually free. And don't say wait until you are off the introductory rate...because I currently am off of it. During my "introductory" period of two months, I was only paying $30 a month ($40 minus $10 TV+internet bundle discount). |
