ILpt4U
join:2006-11-12
Crystal Lake, IL
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Re: Waiting with "baited breath" in Lisle for improved QOS
The fiber pull is AT&T getting ready to bring U-Verse in your neighborhood. It will be an offering of IPTV Television, Broadband Internet, and a choice of a POTS or VOIP telephone line. For the time being it will be fiber to within at most 3000 ft of your house, and the rest over copper. I would guess that at some point in the future, it will become fiber all the way to your house, but that could easily be years away.
If you only want the internet portion of U-Verse, that is possible too. The price is the same as the regular Pro Package DSL (or so I have heard), and you get the FULL 3 meg down, and you get 1 meg up. Other tiers of service for the internet are 1.5 down/1 up (express), 6 down/1 up (elite), and 10 down/1.5 up (max). There is no loss of .5 meg down for overhead with U-Verse internet.
After they pull the fiber thru, the next thing you will notice is next to your neighborhood phone cross box, a new tan colored box will be next to it -- called a VRAD, and that is where the Fiber comes to deliver the U-Verse Service that is then connected to your incoming phone line, and then you have it. |
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rblomeyer
join:2007-08-30
Lisle, IL
| Joe:
Thanks for the useful info. I'll watch for a tan box near the shiny, lt. green "pole" now gracing the back of my lot.
What the AT&T technician told me about a painless "switch-over" (3-28) makes lot more sense now. Still, I'm not inclined to try holding my breath till then.
If and when that happens, I'll know to inquire about U-Verse internet; as opposed to my current DSL package w. 3 Mb down & .5 Kb up (promised but not actual).
If Waterbug is right in the following post, I might never realize improved QOS over the installed DSL pair.
BobBl |
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| I just got the same results almost on the test:
TCP/Web100 Network Diagnostic Tool v5.5.1
click START to begin
Connected to: miranda.ctd.anl.gov -- Using IPv4 address
Checking for Middleboxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Done
checking for firewalls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Done
running 10s outbound test (client-to-server [C2S]) . . . . . 426.0kb/s
running 10s inbound test (server-to-client [S2C]) . . . . . . 1.81Mb/s
Your PC is connected to a Cable/DSL modem
but I'm sync'd at:
Connected at 3008 Kbps (downstream)
512 Kbps (upstream)
meh...grain of salt indeed.
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