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Re: faster Uverse speeds (Project VIP) coming soon? said by Paralel:What a joke of a business plan.
Yep:
»www.charterbusiness.com/bundle/p···net#data
Businesses have bitched so much about their max upload rate that they now toss in a basic webhosting account as a freebie. I guess they're trying to appease people who would like to host a webserver on their Charter business account.
If AT&T had half a brain they would offer some business tiers like 10/10, 25/15, etc. I'd love to be able to speed up my off-site backups. I couldn't care less about them increasing download speeds. |
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| said by doubleohwhat:If AT&T had half a brain they would offer some business tiers like 10/10, 25/15, etc. They DO offer those plans... on their highly lucrative Metro-E and similar fiber products (which is most likely the FTTP referred to a few posts back). They will never offer those kinds of upload speeds on their consumer grade products.
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| Their Metro-E offerings are a bit too pricy for most small businesses. That's why I said 10/10 and 25/15. Those speeds are easily doable via U-verse yet it wouldn't draw too many of the businesses currently on Metro ethernet or fiber (people who need 50 or 100 meg upload rates).
Anyway, the 75/10 plan they've already announced is pretty close on the upload. |
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Kennesaw, GA
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said by WhyMe420:3800 has a $2/Mo charge on grandfathered accounts, I have the 3800 grandfathered too.
huh... never noticed that.... I actually had to look for it... no where close to the internet portion of the bill (I bundle Uverse and wireless)
I guess I can swing 5 bucks on top of the $2 |
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said by doubleohwhat:True. However, they aren't exactly alone in that department. Charters top tier is 100/5 and that's the business plan. That's due to network limitations. They should be increasing upload speeds once they get the video services 100% digital to free up bandwidth for more upload to use.
"Charter Fiber" has 50mbps upload.
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netboy34Premium
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kudos:1 | reply to doubleohwhat
said by doubleohwhat:Their Metro-E offerings are a bit too pricy for most small businesses...
sometimes it is even too much for large businesses... My previous employer built its own private fiber network to all their locations because it was cheaper than having metro-E to each location... (115 locations) I think the savings was close to $1 million a year... |
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That's due to network limitations. They should be increasing upload speeds once they get the video services 100% digital to free up bandwidth for more upload to use.
TWC has the same problem. They don't offer anything with faster than 5mbps up.
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Paralel
join:2011-03-24
Michigan, US
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said by TheTechGuru:...That's due to network limitations. They should be increasing upload speeds once they get the video services 100% digital to free up bandwidth for more upload to use... Wait, they're still using analog for some of their video services? Man, that is so 20th century. |
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| said by Paralel:Wait, they're still using analog for some of their video services? Man, that is so 20th century.
Yes because there are quite a "few" customers out there that would whine if they said "you must have a Digital Cable box to watch standard cable tv" -- Trust me cable would love to ditch the analog and require everyone to 'lease' a converter. |
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| said by Xsk8er:said by Paralel:Wait, they're still using analog for some of their video services? Man, that is so 20th century.
Yes because there are quite a "few" customers out there that would whine if they said "you must have a Digital Cable box to watch standard cable tv" -- Trust me cable would love to ditch the analog and require everyone to 'lease' a converter. Digital != Encrypted. Almost every "digital ready" TV sold in the last 6-8 years can receive (digital) Clear QAM channels without a box. Both Comcast and FiOS are 100% digital (well, Comcast might have a few systems haven't been converted yet...) and you do not need a box for the local/limited basic channels.
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Im stick with 24/3 im soooo ready for the new speeds to hit especially in Columbus Ohio |
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said by mackey:Both Comcast and FiOS are 100% digital (well, Comcast might have a few systems haven't been converted yet...) and you do not need a box for the local/limited basic channels. Uh, you must have missed all the news flashes - Comcast HAS/IS encrypting ALL (remaining) limited basic channels nationwide as we speak:
»Report notifications of Limited Basic tier encryption here |
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kudos:4 | said by dishrich:said by mackey:Both Comcast and FiOS are 100% digital (well, Comcast might have a few systems haven't been converted yet...) and you do not need a box for the local/limited basic channels. Uh, you must have missed all the news flashes - Comcast HAS/IS encrypting ALL (remaining) limited basic channels nationwide as we speak: » Report notifications of Limited Basic tier encryption here Yep, that sounds about right for C***cast. They are a four letter word in my household.
I would rather eat my own face than go back to dealing with them. |
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1 edit | California and Nevada: Uverse Power tier announced »www.webwire.com/ViewPressRel.asp?aId=177979
edit: My zip shows it available, but not my street.
No RG (3800) FW upgrade yet. Could new FW (on old RG), be a necessary but not sufficient prerequisite? A signal your VRAD is capable of new speeds? |
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Paralel
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Michigan, US
kudos:4 | reply to morbo
Re: faster Uverse speeds (Project VIP) coming soon? It is also live in my sub-area of the Grand Rapids, MI market |
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@Paralel
Where do you see that? |
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Paralel
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kudos:4 | Under "MyAT&T", then "Internet" then "Compare Plans" |
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| said by Paralel:Under "MyAT&T", then "Internet" then "Compare Plans" Hopefully it comes here soon as AT&T is getting crushed by Comcast and Cablevision in our state  . I put in a CA zip code then I saw it. |
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join:2000-05-24
Cleveland, OH
kudos:2 | reply to Paralel
Where exactly is that? URL please? In an increase of $10 a month extra for 45 Mbps isn't bad. I would jump at the chance to get it.
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| »www.att.com/shop/internet.html#f···Qq4E0u2i
It's at that location too. |
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trparkyApple... YUMPremium,MVM
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Cleveland, OH
kudos:2 | Oh poo... not yet available in my area. |
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Interesting -- here in Columbus, OH still only shows the 24/3 as the highest tier. |
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$10 more a month to double my download and upload. I'm all in as soon as its in SFL. |
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trparkyApple... YUMPremium,MVM
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kudos:2 | said by dlewis23:$10 more a month to double my download and upload. I'm all in as soon as its in SFL. Yep, same here in Cleveland, OH.
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said by Xsk8er:Interesting -- here in Columbus, OH still only shows the 24/3 as the highest tier. It looks like this when I put in a CA zip code on that page. Pretty much the same stuff as in the picture above. |
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I have been trying to set up Uverse at my new address and while trying to get it setup I asked when we could expect it in Arlington/DFW, TX. They said by Xmas. Well that sucks. Not sure why the home market is being neglected. |
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On that page they left space for the next speed plan in the meter image. So hopefully it wont take 4 years for the next speed plan upgrade. |
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I just called in and while the new tier isn't available in my area, I was able to find out the new business tier will likely be over $200/month. For that price it's cheaper for me to just get two 24/3 accounts which is what I've decided to go with. |
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Oh and I have no other options for internet. I would have prefered TWC because they already have 50/5 for the same price a Uverse's 45/6 plan. But my apartment complex has an agreement with ATT so I am stuck with 24/3 until who knows when. Hopefully the by Xmas is the entire nationwide rollout of the 45/6 plan not just Arlington. |
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