Rick
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join:2001-02-06
Waterbury, CT
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| There's only one thing that could start to impress me about
Uverse.
Well, make that two.
The first is to abandon it altogether and let the copper thieves rip the old crap wiring out while they replace it with FTTH.
And who knows? Maybe it's still early enough to salvage the name even.
Uverse..FTTH. Or..Uverse..done right. Or, finger lickin Uverse..or..something like that. So few people now have it anyway...I think the name could be salvaged for a new service while they quietly admit that Verizon..and Rick..have been right all along.
And, the second is..if they're REALLY die hard dead set against doing this and keeping the copper crap...make the whole service based on flexible bandwidth.
Open them pipes up as wide as they can go..for whatever a customer can get out of it. AND..make that bandwidth be available for whatever the customer wants it for at the time.
In other words..no ones home and you don't want to watch tv?
Let ALL the bandwidth be directed towards your HSI connection. 25Mb..50Mb..whatever you can get...with no caps at all.
If it's family time and you're all settling in for a night of HDTV..let the bandwidth be routed back towards that creating some REAL quality HDTV..uncompressed.
If you want two tv's on..and no HSI? Same deal.
It's all up to the customer to control and decide for themselves.
I think that this whole concept would truly create a one home..one connection type of service. User adjustable..flexible bandwidth..and a pretty cool service at that. Something new and quite revolutionary actually.
And, it WOULD let AT&T and their Uverse service compete with the likes of Comcast and others in terms of speeds..if the customer wanted it to at that point in time.
If you think about it..that is exactly what Comcast and Cox are now doing with their powerboost service. Except on a network level. If the extra bandwidth is there and not being used by others..we get it as individuals up to certain limits.
Uverse wouldn't have to have limits in that regard though.
It would be the customer who decides.
When you get right down to it..this whole idea of caps is needed..for what? 6Mb now they say. 10Mb next year.
Why? If there's a 25Mb pipe rolling into the homes now..with sync rates really as high as they say..the bandwidth to even blow away fios and comcast is there..RIGHT NOW.
It's just in how they're trying to divide it up.
AT&T..I think there is your answer.if you're still bound and determined to milk the copper.
Uverse..open it up all the way. Unrestricted bandwidth up to a persons sync rates. User adjustable bandwidth across all the whole service.
Even I could get excited about that.
~Rick
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en102
Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA
 ·RoadRunner Cable
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| While I tend to agree with the 'open the pipes' analogy (they _should_ be allowing more than 25Mbps through if users can sync up at even better than 40Mbps)... it _should_ be used to push other services such as 2nd HDTV or higher bandwidth. I personally don't care or need it, but it would sell service better for at least being able to provide more than 1 HD stream.
It would be definately better to have the pipe flexible, and I think that there would have to be some prioritization:
1. VoIP
2. TV/HDTV
3. Internet
Like Rick stated... if there's 50Mbps, you could have a couple of HD streams, and slower Internet (upto ?? Mbps)
If it was all internet, up to ?? whatever package you pay for (lets say this is a special 'flex' power package... "
The only problem that I could see with it is customer support. AT&T's current model is easier to implement, and standard across the board, while a flexible model would benefit some, it would probably cost more to support than AT&T would probably want to pay out.
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ace1974
join:2007-06-09
Goldsboro, NC | reply to Rick
Its funny you talk about how bad copper is but at the same time you boast about your powerboost which comes in on copper lol!!!What is it going to be Rick? Do you hate copper one sentence and love it in another? |
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en102
Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA
·RoadRunner Cable
·DSL EXTREME
| I know... 'old' twisted pair copper, or old RG59.
In my area, the RG59 copper (or RG-6) to the curb is ~37 years old, while the POTS copper was installed new to the Xbox last year after Edison's 16kV line melted a block's worth of POTS wire.
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Rick
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join:2001-02-06
Waterbury, CT
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| reply to ace1974
said by ace1974  :Its funny you talk about how bad copper is but at the same time you boast about your powerboost which comes in on copper lol!!!What is it going to be Rick? Do you hate copper one sentence and love it in another? Please. Trying to compare telco's copper with coaxial cable is somewhat akin to comparing a hamburger off mcd's dollar menu with a fillet minion because they're both "steak".
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en102
Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA
·RoadRunner Cable
·DSL EXTREME
| They're both beef... just one's of a lesser quality.
Telco copper isn't low quality... it just isn't shielded, and because of that, its subject to noise and distance limitations much more so than sheilded coax.
Copper is copper. But what shields the copper is a whole different issue.
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