| Cedar Park Rant My old address in Cedar Park ( DSL ) is showing as available ( the VRAD's were only installed 1 1/2 years ago ) and yet my new address which is FTTP is not showing as available.
Of course I wouldn't buy it anyways since DirecTV fricking KILLS U-Verse without any comparison. I'd like to get rid of ATM/PPPoE and get a faster spead but of course AT&T sucks there too.... they won't sell faster and they won't sell without TV. |
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| Uverse isn't built on ATM AFAIK. |
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| Correct, U-Verse is straight IP. My point is ( believe it or not ) my current FTTP connection *IS* based on ATM/PPPoE because it ties into the same legacy DSL backbone.
By switching from FTTP/DSL HSI to FTTP/UVERSE HSI ( or whatever the heck AT&T calls their garbage ) I'd be getting a true 6MB download instead of 5MB download.
Still it's all garbage because I should be able to get WAY more then that ala FiOS since I'm on FTTP. |
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| FWIW... AT&T SE is migrating away from ATM. they sent letter's out to some users that their PPPoA wouldn't work after a certain date. If you're on FTTP it's a pretty good chance you may not be on ATM at all.
Not sure how SBC does it. |
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| Don't I wish. Here in SBC/TX the FTTP is still PPPoE and our IP's come out of the same netblock as the DSL customers.
When I do speedtests I see 5MB down just like when I had DSL `Elite`. The uploads are better since it's 1MB up instead of 768 UP but again I only see 80K not the full 6/1 that U-Verse users see. |
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| PPPoE is not exclusive to ATM networks.
Your speedrate has everything to do with ABC's DSL provisioning. |
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| Duh, you think? Trust me, I know these things already... for many, many years. |
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| Then you should realize if they set your provisioning cap slightly higher you'd be getting true 6MB even on a PPPoE connection or an ATM network...duh. |
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| You mean like Bell Atlantic/Verizon did for me years ago?
You do realize your talking about ATT? (Duh) |
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