 sloe
join:2007-11-09
San Antonio, TX
 ·ooma
 ·AT&T U-Verse
| Line cards I know of the F and K cards. I found out today that I'm on a K card.
The I&R tech I was talking to today mentioned that he's seen memos regarding a new card, and he thinks it was called the N card. He mentioned it because it's coming to my VRAD.
Does anyone know anything about this new card? Any advantages to it? I tried searching, but you'd be amazed at the junk that shows up when you search for n card. |
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Xsk8er
join:2001-01-02
Columbus, OH Reviews:
·AT&T U-Verse
 ·Insight Communic..
| said by sloe:I know of the F and K cards. I found out today that I'm on a K card.
The I&R tech I was talking to today mentioned that he's seen memos regarding a new card, and he thinks it was called the N card. He mentioned it because it's coming to my VRAD.
Does anyone know anything about this new card? Any advantages to it? I tried searching, but you'd be amazed at the junk that shows up when you search for n card.
N Card likely supports Vectoring -- When I had Uverse reinstalled recently I was talking about line cards with the tech who turned up my service and he said that they are testing N Cards in some areas as "internal tools" will flag a address if it has a card that supports vectoring or not.
Vectoring is one of the ways besides a different profile than 8d that AT&T will use to extend the bandwidth that can be pushed over the copper (vectoring will allow them to do things like offer 45/6 to a single pair that is close enough to the VRAD for example).
I am still on an "F Card" in my VRAD
I kind of wish they would re-align the speed tiers and upgrade the 24/3 tier to 24/5 at least (since the profile required for that is 32/5) ... That would make it in line with the 45/6 tier that is offered on the 55/6 profile). I really hate being limited to 3 mb upstream -- I need upstream bandwidth to be able to use cloud backup solutions. |
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Paralel
join:2011-03-24
Michigan, US
kudos:4 | N cards do support vectoring. The N card is basically a K card + vectoring, from what I was told. |
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