 Don Slade
join:2002-05-02
El Paso, TX
| Competition to TW? Really? I wonder where they will start. I don't have much hope it will reach my neighborhood. I live in an area full of $250k+ homes, more than half over $400k, and DSL is not available, has not since before I moved here in 2001. Close to 200+ homes in a 10 - 12 block area and the only options are TW or satellite. And I'm in the middle of a fully developed area, not out in the fringes where all the new construction is. I get a monthly email from SBC/AT&T telling me sorry, but no DSL for you.
Maybe that is why TW has been going around lately performing badly needed maintenance on their cables and amps? These last few weeks I have seen the SNR on my node improve to the highest levels ever after years of complaining to TW about slow speeds, bad analog cable TV signal, horrible digital cable reception and unreliable VOIP performance.
I sure hope that this new competition at least serves to keep TW's prices in check. I'll have to keep my eye out for any AT&T info about this deployment. | |
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en102
Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA | Re: Competition to TW? I still get weekly junk mail from AT&T offering the Uverse bundles, however, its bogus here in SoCal, as the Uverse Voice isn't available, making people still use POTS (filled with fees, and requiring extra cost for things like Canada calling). | |
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| JoeGee
join:2002-01-28
El Paso, TX
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| I dumped TW over a year ago because I got tired of fighting with them over bad reception. They would come out and fix it only to have it go out again in a week. Went with Direct TV and have never looked back. Have always used ATT for internet and with the "Pro" am satisfied. I will certainly look at this new option soon | |
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| etaadmin
join:2002-01-17
Dallas, TX | I did read somewhere (from MarkyD I think) that El Paso had bad TWC service. AT&T's announcement is probably very good news for TWC subscribers. TWC will have to upgrade their lines and service, perhaps 20/2 Mbps is in your future? | |
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SkyFire
join:2003-06-28
El Paso, TX
| Nothing for Time Warner to worry about. AT&T did a piss poor job with the uverse build here in El Paso. I'd say that only 30% of the city is uverse ready. I'd say the newer subdivisions in town will have no complications with the service, but a lot of the older areas will have trouble. ATT did not replace cable runs that should have been replaced instead they "conditioned" them. I witnessed some of this conditioning as these areas were just rushed through. The technicians just went to every terminal and cut the existing pots lines dead to the field with no consideration for any future pairs that had to work out of that terminal. So now a terminal that served 10 houses now only serves the 3 or 4 customers with service, with no additional pairs cut in. | |
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BF69
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN
| Re: Nothing for Time Warner to worry about. said by SkyFire  :AT&T did a piss poor job with the uverse build here in El Paso. I'd say that only 30% of the city is uverse ready. I'd say the newer subdivisions in town will have no complications with the service, but a lot of the older areas will have trouble. ATT did not replace cable runs that should have been replaced instead they "conditioned" them. I witnessed some of this conditioning as these areas were just rushed through. The technicians just went to every terminal and cut the existing pots lines dead to the field with no consideration for any future pairs that had to work out of that terminal. So now a terminal that served 10 houses now only serves the 3 or 4 customers with service, with no additional pairs cut in. When TW stats implimenting caps they'll have soemthing to worry about. Yes at&t is going to have caps too but they are going to be higher than TWs. I'll take 150 GB cap over a 40 GB anyday | |
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Don Slade
join:2002-05-02
El Paso, TX
| TW in El Paso I would think that my neighborhood would be a prime target for AT&T. The neighbors I've spoken to about the condition of the TW service all say they'd switch if they had another way to get high speed internet. The neighbors with sat dishes have no high speed data but great TV, the ones with TW have mediocre high speed data and TV reception. Our household needs the data access for my wife's business.
But even the POTS lines in the neighborhood are bad. When I had to use dial up I would barely get a 21k connection, and that was with a clean line run directly from the modem to the SBC/AT&T box by the curb to test with the SBC tech. His response was that the area wiring was old and needed updating but that no plans for that were in the future.
No new cabinets in the area. I'm pretty vigilant about those things because I know what they are for. | |
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| SkyFire
join:2003-06-28
El Paso, TX
| Re: TW in El Paso Yes you would think that ATT would have planned it out better. You would be surprised at some of the areas that are receiving uverse. I was shocked when I was dispatched to splice 2 cabinets in the montana vista area. Its fine that they want to give the residents out there service but I don't know what good a vrad will do with all the customers being over 5000 ft out. | |
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Don Slade
join:2002-05-02
El Paso, TX
| Caps? Is that with a propeller? Caps would be another thing to worry about. My current usage is less than 15GB per month, but that is after all the kids have left the house. With two of them home the usage goes over 50GB per month. And when the oldest visits with his wife and they work from the house we can easily hit 90-100GB every two weeks.
I guess it is wait and see. | |
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MarkyD
Premium
join:2002-08-20
Oklahoma City, OK
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| Used to live there... I lived in a new 400k home at the top of high ridge. TWC was SO bad there that almost all of us dropped it for Dish/DSL. We had TWC out for literally 5 days in a row, and they could never get the signal strong enough for the cable modem to hold sync and for the analog channels not to be filled with snow. I'm sure U-Verse will be very welcome, as TWC in El Paso is one of the worst cable franchises I've ever encountered.
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