AT&T Announces U-Verse Enhancements

said by ztmike:

o0o..a whole 2mbps upgrade and nothing for upstream.

I'll stick to my 12/2 with Comcrap. lol

said by heat84:

Exactly! Why do they ignore upstream? I'm glad I switched to Comcast too.

said by DataRiker:

I wonder who this is supposed to compete with

said by Gbcue:

Comcast's measly 20 HD channel lineup in my city. With U-Verse, I easily have 50+ HD channels.

said by Uncle Paul:

Hope you don't plan on watching or DVRing more than two at a time.

said by Gbcue:

I can DVR 4 at a time.

With Crapcast, I can only DVR 2 at a time.

said by VegasMan:

Uh isn't that 4 SD's at a time or 2 HD?

said by Gbcue:

Nope.

I can record 2 HD and 2 SD at the same time.

said by Gbcue:

I can DVR 4 at a time.

With Crapcast, I can only DVR 2 at a time.

said by Uncle Paul:

With Comcast and enough TV/DVRs you can record/watch every HD channel they offer at once.

said by Gbcue:

This is true because they'll just $5/month you to death with their 20 HD channels. So only 10 DVRs extra and $50/month.

said by DataRiker:

I wonder who this is supposed to compete with

said by DataRiker:

Something tells me they won't be in rush to upgrade in areas like yours (if they ever do at all)

said by DataRiker:

Something tells me they won't be in rush to upgrade in areas like yours (if they ever do at all)

said by Matt:

The Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area is huge and is projected to have the highest growth percentage of any US metro area over the next 10 years. The problem is that (and I think you're alluding to this), they have no real incentive to upgrade because their competition is Road Runner at a paltry 7Mbps/384Kbps, or 10Mbps/512Kbps if you want the insanely expensive turbo tier.

I think U-Verse is available in parts of Charlotte, but to my knowledge, no where else in North Carolina.

said by Matt:

The Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area is huge and is projected to have the highest growth percentage of any US metro area over the next 10 years. The problem is that (and I think you're alluding to this), they have no real incentive to upgrade because their competition is Road Runner at a paltry 7Mbps/384Kbps, or 10Mbps/512Kbps if you want the insanely expensive turbo tier.

I think U-Verse is available in parts of Charlotte, but to my knowledge, no where else in North Carolina.

said by scots:

U-verse is also available in Raleigh. It's been available here since December or January. I got mine installed in February. I got tired of waiting for TWC to bump up their speeds, and I get more TV channels for less money than I was getting with Dish Network. Overall I've been very pleased with U-verse so far.

said by DataRiker:

Something tells me they won't be in rush to upgrade in areas like yours (if they ever do at all)

said by DataRiker:

12 mbps is the speed i generally see when something is wrong with my cable, average is about 17 mbps(28 with powerboost)

I wonder who this is supposed to compete with

said by gigahurtz:

I was informed by an AT&T rep that U-Verse will be in my area in August. So who thinks this actually happen?

said by ropeguru:

If you don't have access to it to begin with. There were new VRAD's installed in my neighborhood a year and a half ago, if not longer and it still isn't available.

said by NotRequired:

I tried U verse thinking it would be great,
1.having my phone,all options,longdistance,dsl & cell phoe withone company,easier paying the bills,

2 I SHOULD HAVE KOWN something wasn't right when the installer had to try 4 right out of the box recievers befor he found one THAT WORKED then used 1/2 roll of white cord/cable to install run cable from (like a clock12 noon to 6pm position where computer was) then had to replace my wall jack,screwing up an 8 yrs old great phone,which AT&t would pay for repair nor was I able to get repaired, even after sending it off to a company that says they can repair ANY PHONE.

said I try it for a week, by the 3rd day I call an AT&T,(not a uverse tech out) to uninstall the crap, I'll stay with my Directv service for $100.00

said by Lets Go:

What????

said by pfschim:

in Jan this year, we went from ATT DSL (6/1), Dish SD (~140 SD channels), and Comcast Voice (1 line) to AT&T UVerse triple play; Max18 Internet, U450 TV, VoiP (1 line).

We used to pay ~$145/m for the 3 separate services, now we pay ~$128/m for more internet bandwidth and 3x the channels, with significant number in HD. Phone service seems to be about the same (but cheaper).

No sure what there is to complain about. There is no Fios here, and having had nasty CS and billing issues with Comcast in the past, it was a no brainer. Less $$ for more stuff.

On the internet service speeds, I'm not sure that those posting the big Speedtest numbers are really getting any better of a user experience on teh web, unless they are doing huge downloads all the time. Some of the "my speeds are higher" postings seem very similar to overclocking chest thumping ... sorta does not mean a whole lot in the real world.



just my 2centavos

ps .. sorry for the double reply .. meant to attach the speedtest pic for reference

said by joebarnhart:

Fiber is great for the few who have Paxio or something similar -- but U-Verse and FiOS should upgrade their users!