AT&T Complains About Ads Mocking U-Verse Capacity Crunch > Next Gen my a$$

Next Gen my a$$

cable has about 5Gbit bandwidth for a node and when they do channel bonding for D3.0 they can easily get 75-120Mbits tiers but they have to moniter the bandwidth distribution so no slow downs occur and cables HD is on dedicated bandwidth frequencies separate from H.S.I. Cable can splice in a node so subscribers dont have slowdowns and At&t has to build a brand new VRAD which takes days and a cable node can be done in a single day at the max. Cable has to also moniter nodes when they go SDV so there is no please try again later messages.

In the next several years, I can see ATT slowly upgrading FTTH. By setting up u-verse this way, ATT can get there subscriber rates up and move slowly to FTTH. Why are people bashing ATT? I am on the 32/5 profile. For Larger houses, U-Verse is low on bandwidth, but for me its perfect, and functions better then TWC in my area. ATT is laying a good foundation by using the old copper, but they need to move to fiber all the way soon.

reply to motorola870
Yes those VRADS take days or even months to fully test and go operational, but guess what? They each have 1 to several 10GigE Fiber runs which are always up and capable. With redundant battery backups in them, expect next to none downtime, unlike Cable nodes.
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If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Unless you know what you're doing.

During the Hurricane in Houston last year ATT drove around for days installing generators to all of their VRADs.

While i was lucky enough to not lose power, i was even luckier to find out that my internet and TV were still up and running.

I have nothing, but good things to say about U-Verse.