| reply to OSUGoose
Re: Cool! said by OSUGoose:First off, before you blatenly flame AT&T, do some research. AT&T does have FTTP, mostly in new build areas. However, it is treated like its copper/DSL market to "provide a consistant experience" to all users. U-Verse is just the markiting term used for AT&T's FTTP/FTTN services, just like FiOS is Verizons marketing term. Second The distance limits are a lil longer than that, last i herd 2-3,000 Ft From VRAD, If it was 1,000 feet, at&t would go bankrupt deploying that many VRADs. The better question to be asking instead, is how are the accomplishing this, pair bonding? decating a lil more speed to internet from the TV portion? Well, he is mostly right.
U-verse doesn't have fiber to the home *THERE ARE SOME FTTP INSTALLS* - they run the fiber to those big, ugly cabinets that occasionally explode *TRUE* , then use legacy copper from cabinet to home *TRUE*. I think they keep max. copper run to 1000 ft *MORE LIKE 3000-4500ft, IIRC*, but that's what limits the speed. Users closer than 1000 ft can get faster speeds (up to 100Mbps if real close).
U-verse is a copper/fiber kludge cause ATT too cheap to run fiber all the way to home.*SORRY, BUT THIS IS 100% TRUE AND UNDISPUTABLE* |
