gdm
Premium,MVM
join:2001-06-15
Mchenry, IL
clubs: | reply to kj77
Re: U-verse FREEZES and they tell me it's my TV
More people are happy with U-Verse then not. I would register with the site (it's free) and post in the U-Verse forum. ATT has techs on here that can look at the stats and try to figure out what's going on. |
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Mojito
join:2009-05-13
North Richland Hills, TX | reply to justin
Re: Review AT&T U-Verse
»ATT Uverse report - North Richland Hills, TX
Avoid if you live in NRH Tx, 76180. |
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Martianboy
@sbcglobal.net
| reply to justin
We have fiber optic to the neighborhood, copper from the mini-co to house. Great bandwidth, mostly great firewall and router but has glitches when you try to configure multiple static IPs on a single nic card and want them visible to the outside world. Seems 2WIRE never considered that in the firmware.
You can do multiple nics provided you turn off netbios over tcp/ip. Otherwise only one gets input from the outside.
The 2wire 3800 has a lot of microsoft code in it for the TV, and I assume other areas. We actually get a better picture and sound than we did with DISH network but the static ip side of the firewall needs some work in the firmware area.
Bottom line is I get more bandwidth, plus TV for 100 bucks less a month when I had AT&T DSL, Telephone and AT&T's OEM of the DISH Network product. Its not a bad deal, but if you run servers beware of the limitation of one static IP per NIC (unless I have overlooked some hidden setting, but so far I think I know as much or more than the AT&T tech guys do (who have been very helpful to me BTW) about static IPs on this box.
I wouldn't want this product if I didn't have fiber to the neighborhood, you need a good data pipe nearby. |
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tsfrawl
| reply to justin
Here's something you all might find interesting:
I signed up for Uverse last week (southeast Michigan). I have 6 televisions in my house (nevermore than 3 on at a time). As most know each television has it's on box - on June 15 AT & T will enable DVR functionality on EVERY box providing me with over 700 hours of recording space in SD or 200+ HD. Each DVR will be accessible from any TV. If in fact both people were telling the truth AT&T just trumped every service out there. |
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rambler358
join:2009-05-21
Torrance, CA
| reply to justin
Had U-verse installed on 6/2/09. Coming from DirecTV sat TV, AT&T phone and AT&T DSL. Our 1984 built home was pre-wired with RG-59 coax, and was afraid that not having CAT5 coax throughout might be an issue, but it appears the existing home coax is working fine.
Since AT&T DSL used Yahoo mail, the transfer over to U-verse was seamless regarding existing email accounts. No changes needed for Outlook either. 
Coming from DirecTV U-verse TV has a learning curve, but that's to be expected I guess. I do wish there was an option in the Program Guide to only view the channels you get. Instead you either have to create a Favorites by going through each channel and checking if you want to see it. There's also an option to hide channels.
The main reason I switched to U-verse was the internet. I was getting tired of the max 6GB download from DSL, and the problems I was having with it. So it's nice to have the 18GB down/1.5GB up speed available. Though I do wish higher upload speeds were available.
So far, so good. But I've had the service less than a week now, and haven't explored all the options available yet. |
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KBevo
Premium
join:2006-01-20
North Richland Hills, TX | reply to tsfrawl
tsfrawl, I am considering Uverse and had heard that (in my area at least) they can only provide two HD streams to the house at a time. Is that the case for your service?
Thanks
Gary |
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gdm
Premium,MVM
join:2001-06-15
Mchenry, IL
clubs:
 ·AT&T U-Verse
 ·AT&T CallVantage
·Comcast Digital Vo..
 ·Comcast
| Gary,
That's a limit everywhere for U-Verse currently. If you can get a total sync or 30+ megs you get the 2HD/2SD profile basically 25meg cap. If your below 30 megs you will be put on the 19meg profile which is 1HD/3SD.
They are looking at expanding the 2/2 to 3/2 but no ETA on when that will happen. |
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jeaves
@softlayer.com
| reply to justin
Can anyone post the results of some speed tests?
»speedtest.net - there's a link to post forums links when you're done with the test.
just for funsies, here's what I'm getting from work:
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gdm
Premium,MVM
join:2001-06-15
Mchenry, IL
clubs: | You can search the forums for speedtest results.
18 meg gets about 17.xx
10 which is now 12 gets 11.5
6 meg gets about 5.8 or 5.9
3 meg gets about 2.8 or 2.9
1.5 meg gets about 1.4
Upload 1 meg gets 970+ and 1.5 gets 1480+ |
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sparks
join:2001-07-08
Little Rock, AR
2 edits | reply to justin
Guys I live in LR ar and I am getting flooded with mail and phone calls trying to get me to sign up.
OF COURSE when I push for answers its well uh and you know
Maybe someone here can clear up some stuff.
I have 2 HD tv's and considering a 3rd....Nope, most you might get is 2. MIGHT? well it is according to your address.
Right now I have phone and dsl service. What will I have with U-Verse? Internet phone?
Well we leave your phone service intact, and you won't need your dsl service any more.
I have Dish with the 250 Gold full Everything...722 and a 622 dvr's
WELL YOU NEED THE 450 package. phone, internet and all channels we carry, including premiums.
AND WITH A COUPON you get a free dvr...
1?
yes but you can record from any tv
1? HOW many hrs.....DUH HUH ?
Again is this internet phone service or copper wire?
going from phone, dsl and dish....Would I be giving up anything or would I be gaining something good? I wish that they would have gone fiber like verison...it just looks to me that they are trying to shove an elephant down a garden hose and saying WELL you will probably NOT notice this or that.
Does verison have any channels that dish or comcast don't
and vice versa ? |
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MyDogHsFleas
Premium
join:2007-08-15
Austin, TX
·AT&T U-Verse
 ·AT&T Southwest
| My advice to sparks is that if you are happy with your Dish TV service, don't change it.
In my opinion it's worth it to upgrade your AT&T DSL to U-verse Internet, and your landline phone to U-verse Voice. But it's not a slam dunk. Again if you're happy with what you've got, keep it. There'll always be another offer. |
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Austinite512
@sbcglobal.net
| reply to justin
U-VERSE is easily the BEST video provider! Yes if you have more than 5 TV's you might want to think it through b/c you only get 4 video streams (Trust me they will fix that). The features and capabilities alone easily make it better than any other TV service. They just made it to where you can record from any room in the house that has a box. Not to mention up to date and user friendly guide and menu. For all you techies, each box can run off of CAT5. It has to be existing CAT5 or the Technician will drop a line (Each CAT5 drop is $75). The system is sensitive. It is VERY IMPORTANT that the technician due the job right when installing U-Verse. If that happens you will love U-Verse and you will never go back to your old service provider.
PS: Obviously something about U-Verse people love b/c there is over 1,300,000 customers and it isn’t slowing. If U-Verse wasn’t limited on how far you are away from the neighborhood phone box all other providers should start packing their bags. It’s only available in about 85 markets in 15 states. |
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kamgol
join:2007-02-14
San Diego, CA
| said by Austinite512 :
U-VERSE is easily the BEST video provider! Yes if you have more than 5 TV's you might want to think it through b/c you only get 4 video streams (Trust me they will fix that). The features and capabilities alone easily make it better than any other TV service. They just made it to where you can record from any room in the house that has a box. Not to mention up to date and user friendly guide and menu. For all you techies, each box can run off of CAT5. It has to be existing CAT5 or the Technician will drop a line (Each CAT5 drop is $75). The system is sensitive. It is VERY IMPORTANT that the technician due the job right when installing U-Verse. If that happens you will love U-Verse and you will never go back to your old service provider.
PS: Obviously something about U-Verse people love b/c there is over 1,300,000 customers and it isn’t slowing. If U-Verse wasn’t limited on how far you are away from the neighborhood phone box all other providers should start packing their bags. It’s only available in about 85 markets in 15 states.
Do you know if this new functionality (record from all STBs) is available everywhere or is it being rolled out to different regions slowly? I'm in San Diego and I have not seen it announced here. That would solve my dilemma of switching from Time Warner to Uverse. |
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gdm
Premium,MVM
join:2001-06-15
Mchenry, IL
clubs: | It's being slowly rolled out. If your area doesn't have it it should any day up to a few weeks. |
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texasguy37
join:2009-05-18
Grand Prairie, TX
| reply to kamgol
According to this announcement, the new update has been rolled out to all markets. If you don't have the update, try to reboot your DVR and STB's.
»utalk.att.com/utalk/board/messag···d.id=135 |
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kamgol
join:2007-02-14
San Diego, CA
| Thanks guys, I'll check it out. I actually don't have the Uverse service (YET) because of this very issue. I have 3 TVs, two of them HD. So, I wanted to make sure I can record enough content.
I'm still concerned about the 2HD/2SD recording and watching of shows. I was never able to get a straight answer from the rep I spoke to about this. If I am recording two HD shows on one HD DVR, the other TVs cannot record or even watch a third HD channel, but I can still watch any recording, correct? |
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MyDogHsFleas
Premium
join:2007-08-15
Austin, TX
·AT&T U-Verse
·AT&T Southwest
| said by kamgol  :If I am recording two HD shows on one HD DVR, the other TVs cannot record or even watch a third HD channel, but I can still watch any recording, correct? Correct. You can also record or watch two more SD shows at the same time. |
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cellmaniac
join:2001-02-15
San Mateo, CA | reply to Austinite512
did you say that they will charge $75 per Cat5 drop? Shouldn't they install it at no charge in order to connect the STB's? |
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kamgol
join:2007-02-14
San Diego, CA
| reply to MyDogHsFleas
said by MyDogHsFleas :said by kamgol : Correct. You can also record or watch two more SD shows at the same time. Thanks, I appreciate your insight into this. I might just wait to see if 3HD/1SD will be available in my neighborhood (or if I'm really lucky, 3HD/2SD).
I'd also be interested in any side-by-side comparisons of Cable (particularly TWC) vs. Uverse HD picture quality. |
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gdm
Premium,MVM
join:2001-06-15
Mchenry, IL
clubs: | You should make your own post asking specific questions vs thread that's just reviews and so many pages. |
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