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 KrKHeavy Artillery For The Little GuyPremium
join:2000-01-17
Tulsa, OK
 ·AT&T DSL Service
| U-Verse just doesn't have the capacity The problem is the fact it's a band-aid type of technology.
In order to save money, the idea was run local nodes (Fiber) but still use existing copper infrastructure to connect the homes to the nodes. A lot cheaper then running FTTC.
But here's the rub. As with any chain, it's only as strong as it's weakest link, and that weak link is that last piece of copper telephone wire. Basically, U-Verse is maxxing out around 25 Mbits/sec down. Since AT&T wants to sell you television service, and that includes HDTV stream, plus VOIP, and Internet, the 25 Mbps down gets maxxed out. AT&T has capped the U-Verse speeds at around 6 Mbps down to "save" the rest of the bandwidth for TV.
The whole plan is to make the $$$ on the TV. They're not doing U-verse in order to allow you to get 25Mbps Internet.
This is why U-Verse is virtually obsolete even as installed. Cable TV is providing much more TV and much faster Internet already. Eventually AT&T is gonna have to admit it and just bring the FTTC.
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join:2000-09-18
Sunland, CA | Re: U-Verse just doesn't have the capacity Actually the max on the U-Verse circuits are more in the range of 80mb - 90mb. They are just capped at 26mb for now. On the FTTP U-Verse I don't know.
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| | KrKHeavy Artillery For The Little GuyPremium
join:2000-01-17
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·AT&T DSL Service
| Re: U-Verse just doesn't have the capacity said by jamez818:Actually the max on the U-Verse circuits are more in the range of 80mb - 90mb. They are just capped at 26mb for now. On the FTTP U-Verse I don't know. ?? First I've heard of the VDSL being able to go that fast.... You sure that's on U-Verse equipment or is that on Fiber to the Home (IE all the way, not U-Verse Node style)
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join:2006-05-14
San Antonio, TX | Re: U-Verse just doesn't have the capacity It has the ability to go fast. I am sitting at about 3000 feet from the node with a max sync rate of about 70mbit. I doubt it would support video very well at the max rate as I do get a significant number of correctable errors at the current rate. However it would probably work reasonable well for data that is not being streamed in real time.
Add in the fact that the the modem on my end is not running vdsl2 and it does appear we are only seeing the beginning of what is possible with fttn and vdsl. | |
| | | | KrKHeavy Artillery For The Little GuyPremium
join:2000-01-17
Tulsa, OK | Re: U-Verse just doesn't have the capacity Well, then I say bring on the Dual HDTV streams and raise that Internet cap  | |
| | | | |  en102Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA | Re: U-Verse just doesn't have the capacity According to the sales rep (yeah - like I trust that), multiple (at least dual I hope) streams of HD should be available soon, as well as '10 to 12Mbps' according to him.
I'll believe it when I see it.
Personally, I don't need any higher rates, and more importantly, I don't want to pay any higher fees.
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| | | It can't be much higher since the RG they installed only supports 100mb on the uplink port. I don't know if the ONT supports gigabit or not but I'm guessing it doesn't. | |
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