Uverselooker
@cologuys.com | reply to lev
Re: New U-Verse availability map now online!
Anyone seen downsides to U-verse in north dallas area? Something you would ditch to another provider for? (If one was available at the same price and better services like 30mbit included in the "big" package.) |
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FixManTx
Premium
join:2005-02-06
Carrollton, TX
| reply to lev
They're installing the fiber equipment in my apartment complex in west Houston. The boxes are installed but no power meter yet, and this past week they have been tearing up the grass out front installing conduit. Does anybody know how I can find out the timetable as to when Uverse will be available to me? It's already available to houses, my brother switched a couple months ago from TWC and loves it. They (he and his buddy) have all the movie channels but pay less than they did with basic digital from TWC, and he says the picture quality is much better, channel changes are much faster, less latency with the internet. I don't want to deal with the impending TWC/Comcast swap so I'm anxiously awaiting AT&T video. Any AT&T techs from the Buffalo/Dairy Ashford CO read here? I'm also wondering about getting just video from AT&T without disturbing my current DSL install. I have no use for a phone, my cell more than meets my needs. |
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MyMy
@swbell.net
| reply to The Dv8or
Uverse is much better than FIOS. FIOS has to dig up your yard and once you go fiber to the house, you can NEVER go back to coax cable...EVER!! FIOS you have to rent your boxes monthly. The Uverse menu guide is great! Whole home DVR.....FIOS doesn't do that!!!!
And...consumers do not have a choice. If you live in a verizon area, uverse can NOT be installed. The same applies for AT&T areas, FIOS is not an option. Depending on where and what street you live on determines what iptv provider will service you. |
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brianstretch
join:2001-12-31
Ann Arbor, MI
| Uverse doesn't have whole-house DVR either. Next year, maybe.
FiOS doesn't always have to dig up your yard, only if your current cables are buried. Even if they do, grass is self-replicating.
FiOS has many, many times the bandwidth of Uverse. Picture quality is better, there's no 1 HD channel at a time viewing limit, Internet bandwidth is a multiple of what Uverse offers... yes, it costs more to do the job right, but it's worth it.
Complaining about not being able to go back to copper is like complaining that you miss your buggy whip. You'll get over it. |
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wrenchinfool
Premium
join:2003-09-14
Lakewood, OH | reply to lev
cleveland oh has it in parts they just did the rt behind my house a little over a month ago, gonna call this week the pro package i think is around 115. a month |
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NormanS
Premium,MVM
join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
 ·Pacific Bell - SBC
| reply to compudude86
said by compudude86  :and not only that, it was "AT&T BROADBAND" (remember that adventure?) that originally pushed the launch of the digital voice on what is now comcasts networks. imagine what it would be like with at&t having almost everything now, and then still having AT&T BROADBAND...scary IIRC, "AT&T Broadband Internet" was split off from "AT&T", and traded separately on the stock market. It merged with Comcast, and would not have been part of the SBC purchase of "AT&T". If "AT&T" had retained ATTBI, it would have been too expensive for SBC to buy it.
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Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum |
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aeroman
Premium
join:2001-03-16
Dearborn, MI
| reply to lev
Received offer from AT&T for UVERSE by US Mail. Went online to check availability as per telephone number, got confirmed.
So, 48124, Dearborn, MI will have UVERSE available.
I'll wait a while before going for it.
Cheers.
aeroman. |
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DanMan
@rr.com | reply to lev
There is a U-Verse box (one of the things that looks like a A/C unit) about 200 feet away from my house and on the other side of the road ... my address isn't serviced, WTF? |
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NormanS
Premium,MVM
join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
·Pacific Bell - SBC
| said by DanMan :
There is a U-Verse box (one of the things that looks like a A/C unit) about 200 feet away from my house and on the other side of the road ... my address isn't serviced, WTF?
There is an RT barely 2,000 feet from my house, yet my connection runs 9,156 feet to the CO. RT is "across the street"; the "street" being a six-lane expressway (with a creek running alongside) which pretty much divides the service area. What you see won't necessarily be an indicator of what you may be able to get. Unless you know the wire infrastructure, your "WTF" is pointless.
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Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum |
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lew_jean
join:2005-05-13
Marietta, GA | reply to lev
I have found out that Cobb County, Ga will be the 1st area in the old Bellsouth area to get U-Verse. They just installed a VRAD just around the corner from me |
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whodean
join:2005-04-14
Atlanta, GA | Hopefully we see it here in Buckhead soon. |
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Mr anon
@il.us | reply to lev
Should we only add pins for installations that we know are active or do we add the units that we know of? |
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Flippant
So Much For Subtlety
Premium,Mod
join:2000-06-04
Katy, TX | You can add a note to a pin, so you can identify whether it is active or not. |
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Mr Anon
@il.us | Ok, So the VRAD Boxes I've identified in the Oak Lawn IL, Blue Island and other areas I'll mark them soon for you all. |
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smokarz
join:2006-07-24
West Hartford, CT | reply to lev
can anyone describe the u-verse box to me? or better yet post a pic?
i notice recently there's a huge ivory box attached to a pole at the end of my street. it's aboout 3x5 feet and has two huge cables connected to it. |
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koolkid1563
Premium,MVM
join:2005-11-06
Powell, WY
clubs: | I have only seen one picture of a poll mounted VRAD here: »i18.tinypic.com/2q0t7af.jpg |
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X_Digit
Binary Enhanced
Premium
join:2003-06-12
Mansfield, TX | reply to lev
Wait... if I have Uverse, but the television side is ALWAYS screwed or not working, do I only need to post half of a pin? Where would I find half of one?
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Respectfully, X_Digit |
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matt498
join:2006-07-31
Waycross, GA | reply to lev
Brunswick and Waycross are getting U-Verse next year (sometime late summer or later). Right after AT&T turns it up in Jacksonville FL. |
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bassthumpa
Premium
join:2000-12-26
Austin, TX | reply to lev
Just ordered service for my house in Austin, TX, so I'll put a pin down. |
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Guestanon
@rr.com
| reply to lev
San Antonio was the first city to have Uverse, yet it isn't pinned on the map. Weird. I know it is available here.. the people across the street have it yet for some reason it's not available for me, grrrr...  tech even said I was closer to the box. 
Anyway, I don't know about the pins, but there should be some in San Antonio, Texas.
Anyone know how to find out where they will expand to during the expansions, or how long between expansions? They hooked up the neighbors a couple months ago, but still nothing for us. |
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