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Comments on news posted 2007-12-10 10:36:11: AT&T has launched their U-Verse VDSL-based IPTV service in portions of the St. ..

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88615298 (banned)
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Re: need faster speeds.

said by openbox9:

You can save some money. Bandwidth isn't everything...at least outside of the BBR forum.
well that's true then why not just get at&t DSL 768 Mbps for $20 a month. That'll save a lot of money. No thanks.

first of all I don't even see a choice of getting the internet part by itself. Secondly in a few months when Charter rolls out it's 16/2 tier the 10/1 tier will be $50 a month. That beats $47 at&t's 6/512 they offer in my area for naked DSL.

Unfortuneatley each company thinks it's own shit doesn't stink so neither will feel the need to compete on price.

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where is it available in St. Louis area?


The description of availability is very vague. "portions of" does not help much! Anyone have a breakdown by streets?
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Re: Seems a little slow.

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said by Matt3:
said by openbox9:

I'd be extremely happy with the U100 package...and that's only 1.5/1.0. Price is king. As long as consumers have minimal capabilities for the smallest cost possible, a majority of them will be happy. Evidenced by the popularity of some of the 768/128 DSL (and now some cablecos jumping on the bandwagon...especially for retention purposes) packages rolled out.
92.67% of all statistics are made up on the spot and like usual, your sample size is relatively small.
While that may be true (stats are made up), he is still correct. Other than the people on this forum (and others like it), the vast majority of Americans dont care about having 20+Mbps internet connections, nor are they interested in paying for them. The fastest growing DSL tier is the 768k/128k, and for good reason. Most people want the cheapest internet service they can get, period.
Try surfing the net on dial-up. That's $10 month. I don't see people flocking to that. So yes people do go on price but to a point. In the not so distant future, 768 Kbps will seems like dial-up as more and more website use bandwidth hogging apps. Some sites it's already like that.

Go to »buccaneers.com and tell me how long it takes the page to load. For me 5 seconds on a 5 Mbps connection. Warning if you don't have a wide screen monitor and have it set at at least 1280X800 you might have issues seeing the vast majority of the page. And this is the future of websites.

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Re: Screw TV. Just give me my 10/10 (or higher).

they offer 6/768 dsl (static ip) for slightly more than what you are paying charter now. the 3/512 is about what you are paying.

is it not available in your area?

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said by morbo:

they offer 6/768 dsl (static ip) for slightly more than what you are paying charter now. the 3/512 is about what you are paying.

is it not available in your area?
If I could get DSL I would've gotten it. I'm apparently too far from both the C.O. to the north and the C.O. to the south, so I'm in the DSL "black-hole" that's in-between.

I signed up with Charter Business in May. I got the one-year contract, since their choices were one, two, and would you believe it three year contracts. They didn't offer mo-to-mo and static IP.

They also said that it would cost $67 for 1.5M/256k or $104 for 3.0M/??? (probably 384k or 512k).

Last month I checked again on the website and I *still* couldn't get it. I checked again despite my Charter contract because I was curious about a possible Dual-WAN, so I could get faster speeds most of the time and redundancy, so I could do away with my back-up Copper.net dial-up (which costs $10/mo.).

I also asked DSL-Extreme on this website, and they said "No, we can't do it." I know they wouldn't say so just to aggravate me, since they'd rather say "Yes we can" and hope I sign up.

Funny thing is that my next-door neighbor in my apartment complex claims that the previous tenant in his unit had DSL, and he *could* get it. This is contrary to what the AT&T website says, and what DSL-Extreme told me, so I don't know what gives.

Maybe I should call AT&T up and see what they say. The $20/mo. Dynamic IP 768k/128k DSL would do everything the dial-up can, and then some for not much more $$$.
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Re: not in my area

said by markopoleo:

Don't feel bad, all those places listed lots of them can't even get DSL yet STILL. Friend in st.louis county calls every year and they say every year its coming..for last 6 years. :P
Yep. It's Ma Bell's fake orgasm.
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Re: Seems a little slow.

said by backness:

or we could have a content creators utopia who can deal directly with their consumer( you know actually respond to the tastes,wants and needs of the consumer instead of having them dictated by a network and of course AT&T now also).
All this crap you're posting has nothing to do with the article. Most new shows aren't even produced by the networks like they used to be. They are made and sold to the highest bidder. If these people wanted to offer them to you over the internet they could. Are you willing to PAY for such content? I thought not.

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Re: Screw TV. Just give me my 10/10 (or higher).

you should talk to a tech in the att forum. the private forum where they provide support. tell them that the previous tenant had dsl there, etc.

my experience is that the support forum folks get things done. i always go to them if i have an issue with my dsl.
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This is B.S.

Either this is B.S. or they don't have their system updated to recognize that it's now available in St. Louis. The article mentions Chesterfield. I tried my address and countless other addresses all over the Chesterfield area and NONE qualify.

When they say select areas, they REALLY mean it. I guess the service is only available to customers who can hear the the CO's air conditioning units.

Regardless of name (Southwestern Bell->SBC->AT&T) or decade, it's the same old AT&T. DSL has been coming soon since 1998. Does anyone think the statewide franchise will help motivate more remote facilities to increase coverage? Yeah, right. If you believe that did I mention I own a bridge in Minneapolis that's for sale.
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Re: Seems a little slow.

Wow! I went to the site and I must say that Bucs fan or not, all men should visit the cheerleader pages. Caution: Before you visit make sure you haven't pissed of your significant other and, if necessary, brothers Cialis and Viagra are in the house.
waltl
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Why the promise of U-Verse matters, at least to me

One reason U-Verse is interesting to me in suburban St. Louis is Choice. Charter HSI is still my only option, and the service is terribly intermittent, especially in the warm months, which is most of the year, here. After a dozen truck-rolls here, Charter still cannot resolve my intermittent HSI problem.

Ten years after my home was built, AT&T DSL is still not available, and I doubt U-Verse will be available anytime soon. But the fact that I see fiber going in along nearby interstates and state highways at least gives me hope there will one day be an alternative to Charter, for me.

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Re: How about

Hopefully BellSouth/ATT Southeast will maintain MaxSync on U-Verse. Probably wishful thinking, but it would be nice.
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Re: need faster speeds.

said by sroudebush:

If you were too far out with 768 or 1.5 Dsl...what makes you think that AT&T will work for you now?
LOL, I dont live in the 80's anymore
Lazlow
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Re: where is it available in St. Louis area?

Of the 40 address I checked (I do private tech support) none had uverse available (all were in the cities cited). I am guessing that the areas that have it are vastly outnumbered by those who do not.

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i agree. very misleading.
tanker001
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Re: not in my area

Same here... I don't know how many on this site (in the St. Louis area) read the article on the front page of the Sunday St. Louis Post Dispatch about a month back regarding the lack of coverage in some areas of the St. Louis Metro area.

I happen to be in one of the areas in ST. Louis County they wrote the article about. I have no CHOICE in HSI providers and they (AT&T) don't seem to care about doing anything to close these availability holes. The CO I am linked to is to far to support "reliable" DSL service.

I have enough problems with my Charter Cable reception and there so called system enhancements. It's funny, every time they enhance the service, channels disappear from my analog line up. That's an enhancement? Maybe for someone else.

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Re: where is it available in St. Louis area?

Of people at my work who've checked, 1 can get it (Clayton address)
2 cannot - st. louis city (me) and des peres areas

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Re: Why the promise of U-Verse matters, at least to me

I live in UCity and am scheduled for installation on 12/31. Does anyone have any StL Uverse experiences??

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Re: not in my area

i'm in stl city as well (by 55/loughborough) and i'm withjout u-verse... i get their 3m now and they don't even have the 6m available here...

i call up fully prepared to throw money at them for a better line and the best they can do is notify me when it's available...

i moved away from charter about a year ago and my only complaint has been lack of higher speeds... i will never return to charter.
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