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Georgia IFITL areas to be upgraded?

This is just speculation and rumor from what I've read, but they're supposed to be retrofitting IFITL equipment with U-verse flavor/IP-DSLAM stuff sometime in the future. There's no timetable for that though.

Are there any other ISPs available in your area?
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reply to Pompito
Check out the news - AT&T is not going to expand Uverse further. IFITL subscribers are screwed!!! Since we have no cable provider in my neighborhood I switched to Clear last year. It is better than IFITL but far short of cable or Uverse. I average about 3mbs but always get 1mbs up, which is much better than IFITL for working from home (same cost as IFITL though). Their traffic shaping is notorious for slowing users to a crawl, but I rarely have seen speeds below 1.5.

If you don't have another option and can get it, Clear might be workable (just check with other users in your immediate area first) - otherwise you should vote with your feet and switch to cable.

I recently purchased a Bluetooth compatible home phone system that will allow me to port my cell into the base unit and use it for the whole house. I plan to cancel AT&T completely and wipe their existence out of my life. The fact that they gobbled up Bellsouth and ignored the entire IFITL customer base has me very bitter.

reply to Pompito
I've been stuck on IFITL since 2002 as well. I can't tell you how sick I am of having to pause 360P videos on youtube so they buffer or knowing that I can never watch a HD (or even standard def) movie over Netflix. I pray ATT goes out of business - they are the WORST COMPANY IN AMERICA.

They are going to have to replace the FTTC systems at some point because they quit using that vendor when the started the Uverse project. Every year it gets harder to replace equipment that fails. My guess is they will start next year. I have heard they are starting the first projects in a few cities. They have to replace almost all of the hardware while maintaining service except for the short time of a few hours they are actually moving your service to the new equipment.

Either that or they will upgrade us to a high speed 56K dialup service.

Heard it all before. They will band-aid until the cabinets rust out and then leave.

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reply to Pompito
Personally I could with SAT TV care less about uverse crippled video...

But expecting any day now after them BEGGING me to switch... to say DSL will be OVER its UVerse or nothing and BUNDLE EVERYTHING or nothing economical.

Told them when they came around don't want TV or Phone... what is just internet... you don't want to know the rediculous $$$ answer.... BUNDLE ALL or WE will bill you up the ass DON'T care... well neither do I see ya if it comes to that point.
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reply to Tel
I was told by an AT&T rep on THEIR forum about 18 months ago that they would be switching my area (Suwanee, GA) in March of 2010. AT&T has no credibility where IFITL customers are concerned.

Sorry, I'll believe it when I see them working in the neighborhood. As far as I cam concerned they broke their promise to us, the customers, when they failed to follow the BellSouth upgrade path that was in place at the time of the acquisition and then continued to mislead about their plans. Actions speak louder than words and broken promises are much worse than just telling the truth - even if it is not what we want to hear. I can at least respect that.

another reason why FCC/DOJ should block att's attempt to acquire tmo. though i doubt they will since the election year is right around the corner and politicians need campaign $.

sbc/att offered promises before acquiring of bellsouth but i don't hardly see how any of those really benefited consumers in the SE region.

remember how long it took them to offer dry dsl?
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They started the conversion but what works in the lab for the Dog and Pony show the big wigs see to get approval has a habit of being more difficult to do outside.

The conversion has to be done live because the only part of the system they are reusing is the fiber to the curb and the power wire to feed the replaced ped. They are gutting most of the RT cabinet and replacing the electronics. They have to do this while maintaining service except for the short time they completely replace the ped your drop feeds from.
It is not a conversion where you build a new system beside the old and when it is up and running you move the customer to the new system one customer at a time.

The recession is not helping the funding for these conversions either.

Still meaningless to customers on this system for nearly 10 years and stuck at 1.5.

Clear (my only alternative) literally sucks, but is STILL better than what I can get from IFITL, even on a bad day! That, by itself, should embarrass AT&T into doing SOMETHING.

I found this page from a link in the uverse forum. It looks like upgrades are finally in the works. Ifitl and FITL MX will be upgraded to gpon.

»ebiznet.att.com/networkreg/#southeast

Miami's constuction is scheduled for 4th qtr.

reply to Pompito
Ok, so I took a look at the regulatory disclosures link from the other thread and saw that their are converting IFITL in the Snellville, Lawrenceville, and Panola "wire centers." We are in the Peachtree Corners area of Norcross, which has significant IFITL deployment. Anyone know if P'tree Corners is served by any of these "wire centers" or if they plan on upgrading IFITL anytime soon in Peachtree Corners? In the past few months, IFITL has been seeming to get worse.

is there any GPON info on this website? If not it might be a good time to add it so people know what it is.

reply to Ameri_User
Peachtree Corners is where 141 and Peachtree Industrial splits isn't it? Snellville would be way too far to the south, Panola even more so. Lawrenceville is north of you on 316 where it converts to a standard highway not a limited access highway. To be honest Dunwoody is closer to you, only about 5-6 miles to the west. Specifically this CO is listed as being part of the GPON upgrade: DNWDGAU0094.

Based on the 30092 zip (used the Office Depot on Holcomb Bridge at 141), you would NOT be served out of the Dunwoody CO (because Duluth is not in Gwinett). There are three Norcross COs listed but Norcross did not show up in the regulatory report site linked.

Do this, go here: »/coinfo and put in the first 6 digits of a land line (yours or a very close by neighbor if you don't have one, put in an old one you owned at that location if you had one or remember it). It will tell you what CO you should be fed out of. You can then take the CO code it gives you and search that regulatory site for that code.

Of course IFITL could be fed out of a non-local CO. Just because there are Norcross COs doesn't mean your IFITL is fed from it. You could be part of the upgrade anyway, I really don't know much about how the IFITL network was deployed.

They do seem to be covering more or less ALL deployments in GA so if you are indeed fed from a Norcross CO, it would be weird of them to leave out a handful of COs and upgrade the rest. I mean yeah this is AT&T we're talking about here but it just doesn't make ANY kind of sense to leave that network online in just a handful of COs. I'd say your chances are good of being upgraded.

reply to countscabula

the problem is u-verse is unavailable to areas with IFITL because there is no pair going from the RT to the house. GPON is a badly needed solution for neighborhoods built since 1995+ whenever they started deploying FITL. But since there is already some fiber out in the neighbor hoods already the jump to GPON might not be to bad.