dslwanter
Why would I want DSL? I have FTTH
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join:2002-12-16
Lowellville, OH
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1 edit | What a joke
Forget all of your current customers that got you were you are today. Run over and work on Bell South territory now too. Again, many areas still can't get DSL. Oh well. Oh and by the way, I'm not going to really care for U-Verse. Our new cable company is upgrading our cable system and I will be able to get 10mbps/1mbps for $59.95 a month, that will piss all over U-Verse's 6mbps/1mbps. Plus they have about 300 channels.
As stated before, the way AT&T is handling U-Verse, it's nothing more than a cable system, in fact, it's even less than that in terms of broadband. A cable system that is "upgraded" is fiber to the pole and coax during the drop to the home. U-Verse is fiber to the node then copper the rest of the way.
They need to re-think this if they want to compete in the future, especially with cable systems starting to experiment with DOCSIS 3.0.
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Cod
join:2000-07-05
Greensboro, NC
1 edit | said by dslwanter  :Forget all of your current customers that got you were you are today. Run over and work on Bell South now too.
Its one company now...They can be working on former BellSouth as well as doing upgrades in other parts of the country, all simultaneously.
said by dslwanter :Our new cable company is upgrading our cable system and I will be able to get 10mbps/1mbps for $59.95 a month, that will piss all over U-Verse's 6mbps/1mbps. To each their own. Many people outside of BBReports.com like spending half of your $60 10/1 for something that suites their needs.
said by dslwanter :A cable system that is "upgraded" is fiber to the pole and coax during the drop to the home. U-Verse is fiber to the node then copper the rest of the way.
LOL. Do you seriously think that in front of every house the coax somehow mysteriously taps into the fiber every couple hundred feet in the air? You need some serious education on optical & electrical transport methods and how they interact. Pick up a manual on cable & telco plant architecture while you are at it.
said by dslwanter :They need to re-think this if they want to compete in the future, especially with cable systems starting to experiment with DOCSIS 3.0. Uverse using the VDSL standard is providing, right now, 70-100mps into peoples homes, albeit not an open pipe. AT&T can hypothetically 'flip the switch' if it wants to offer faster downloads in the future.
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bogey780
join:2004-03-19
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'As stated before, the way AT&T is handling U-Verse, it's nothing more than a cable system'
Uhhhh... no. Not in the least. It's no more a "cable system" than ISDN is a microwave relay. |
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dslwanter
Why would I want DSL? I have FTTH
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join:2002-12-16
Lowellville, OH
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·AT&T Midwest
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said by Cod :Its one company now...They can be working on former BellSouth as well as doing upgrades in other parts of the country, all simultaneously. I never said it was 2 separate companies, I said 2 separate territories. Just like there's AT&T Midwest, AT&T Southeast, AT&T Southeast, ect.
said by Cod :Many people outside of BBReports.com like spending half of your $60 10/1 for something that suites their needs. And how are they suppose to get anything AT&T offers if it's not available to them? The advantage of cable is they cover the entire territory stated, there's no "distance limits". Unfortunately, you still have this even with U-Verse. I do agree with you however on the speed. Cheaper is always better and if there's a more cost efficient way to do it, AT&T DOES HAVE a hell of a deal on their 6mbps, but there in comes the distance limit.
said by Cod :LOL. Do you seriously think that in front of every house the coax somehow mysteriously taps into the fiber every couple hundred feet in the air? You need some serious education on optical & electrical transport methods and how they interact. Pick up a manual on cable & telco plant architecture while you are at it. I think you're in dire need of education. Do YOU SERIOUSLY THINK there's enough bandwidth in coax to provide several different households equal bandwidth? If this was the case fiber wouldn't need to "be installed throughout our township" and they could run fiber to certain points and still utilize the current cabling and not spend several million on fiber.
said by Cod :Uverse using the VDSL standard is providing, right now, 70-100mps into peoples homes, albeit not an open pipe. AT&T can hypothetically 'flip the switch' if it wants to offer faster downloads in the future. But they're not are they? Doing such a thing would require new hardware and updates in their facilities to do such a thing. So no they can't just 'flip the switch'. Oh and DOCSIS 3.0 is capable of 160Mbps down and 120Mbps up*. I still think it will beat U-Verse. Now, had AT&T developed a plan such as Verizon's FiOS my opinion on U-Verse would be completely different. FiOS currently offers 622Mbps down and 155Mbps upstream speeds, with that bandwidth divvied up among up to 32 homes.* Cable in Verizon areas will suffer as a result.
*HARD SOURCE: »arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20···265.html
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bogey780
join:2004-03-19
Here | 'Doing such a thing would require new hardware and updates in their facilities to do such a thing.'
Which new hardware specifically? |
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