FisamoPremium
join:2004-02-20
Apex, NC | Agreed--great article! So here's the question: Do you go for the whole enchilada at once a la Verizon (FTTH right away), or part-way today, the rest of the way later (FTTN)? Clearly, ATT has chosen the latter strategy. Time will tell if it's the best approach. It's probably more expensive in the long run but less risky.
Would I get U-Verse? I don't know yet. As a resident of a Raleigh suburb, it doesn't look like I'll have the opportunity to make that decision for quite a while yet.  Ultimately, it depends on the packages and prices offered, what TWCNC offers at that time, etc. Right now, we're in a TWC 'grey hole' where we have broadband, but it's only 5M/384k for standard service and 8M/512k for "RR Premium". If U-verse, at 6M down (not sure what upload is rated at), provides dedicated bandwidth(as opposed to a potentially-oversold cable node) and the price is right, such service wouldn't be 'mediocre' around here...   |
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| Upload speeds on all U-verse packages is 1 Mbps. I'd take that any day over the 384 Kbps I get from TWC.
I really don't know if this has anything to do with U-verse or some type of VDSL offering, but here in the Raleigh/Durham area I've been seeing lots of large (VRAD-esque) looking boxes popping up. There are utility markings all over the sidewalks and streets where I live, and they have been tearing up sidewalks and running conduit to these large boxes. They don't look exactly like the U-verse boxes I have seen displayed on the site, but they are strikingly similar in appearance and size, the only real difference is that they have double doors.
I recall reading an article before the merger where Bellsouth was planning to deploy VDSL services to a number of metro area's across their footprint and offer speeds of 25 Mbps or higher. Maybe that's it? Because it's rather odd to see such a number of these boxes popping up for no reason.
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 RickPremium,MVM
join:2001-02-06
Waterbury, CT | And what a shame it is that they're allowed to do all this tearing up of our nations roads and sidewalks and defacing the publics property with what I can only call all their graffiti markings.
All this to deliver some of us with 1/4 the speeds we already get.
It's so self serving of them and has no ones interest in mind except their own.
It would be one thing if this was to bring consumers a real next generation service like FTTH is.
But..for Uverse?
It's just plain wrong that it's even allowed.
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The Coyote captured the RR! Roadrunner Rick is now Comcastic! |
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The VRAD that services me has two doors on either side as well. |
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Jesus dude we get it.
You think Uverse sucks and DSL sucks. |
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openbox9
join:2004-01-26
Alexandria, VA
kudos:2 | reply to Rick
That's funny. I bet if the cableco was tearing up streets and sidewalks to bring you your 20 Mbps PowerBoost, you would have no problem with "defacing the public's property"  |
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Well they have done a good job repairing all the sidewalks that they do need to disrupt.
The boxes I have seen so far have been relatively well placed, as in not in anyones front yard. The ones I have seen are located next to, or near other groupings of telco boxes, usually hidden by some landscaping. While the boxes are somewhat large, they are really no bigger than some of the telco boxes that have been in service for many years now.
I'm not worried about the speed issue. I know the equipment they are deploying is capable at 25-30 Mbps in the very least, with some lines syncing at 100+ mbps. With pair bonding that is increased to 50 - 200+ Mbps. And if need be, many pairs can be bonded, not just two. So the technology can bring hundreds of megabits to the home. And in the future, ripping out that last half mile of copper to replace with fiber will not be terribly difficult or extensive when the need arises for more bandwidth.
Sure, I'd love to be in a Fios area, but all we have here is former Bellsouth AT&T which has failed to provide anything exciting other than vanilla DSL in the past 8 years. I welcome any U-verse or VDSL service because I know that would finally heat up some competition with TWC and in the end, eventually prompt them to raise speeds, and possibly lower prices. |
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RickPremium,MVM
join:2001-02-06
Waterbury, CT | reply to openbox9
I have no problem at all with a telco or utility co. doing that providing the reason is they're delivering something that will be a real benefit to the consumer. At the very least, it should be something that we don't already have or can't get already.
My city here has been spending a lot of money the last couple of years on completely redoing many roads and I consider it outrageous that along can come at&t with their failure of a next generation service that will bring this city nothing more than 1/4 the speed we already can get anyway..and rip up those roads that our hard earned tax dollars have paid for.
And whether they fix them or not..it's still not going to be brought back to the way it looked before they did it.
Do YOU pay thousands of dollars per year in property and other taxes? If you do...and can't appreciate how people would feel about that..then you haven't thought much about it all. And, if you don't..then you'll never understand what I'm talking about.
Again. Why let them do it..and for what purpose?
This is NOT about delivering this community something we don't have. It's about delivering what appears to be an inferior service to what we already have.
And yes. I have a big problem with that.
As well I should.
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