AT&T Fiber To The Home → I have it.. Its not that bad

I think that any service will have disappointments. (I've never found one that didn't.) I've had UVERSE for 8 months now and I have had a significantly better experience than with satellite providers. My experience is that the freezing of picture (HD and non-HD) seems to be caused by their choice if HPNA for home networking. The boxes connected to the gateway with cat-5 ethernet never freeze. Those over HPNA do.

So what I'm trying to say is this article can mis-lead you into believing the service deployed as is cannot work well; but it can and does for many people.

Here's an external link about some up and coming improvements. I'm especially looking forward to the ability to watch material recorded to the DVR on any TV or Computer in the home!

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I had a pure CAT-5 install.

Well, like I said, it won't always work for everyone. Unfortunately! Different areas, different line quality. And as this article points out, FTTH would probably improve reliability so that everybody has more consistent experiences.

AT&T U-Verse is okay for today, but it will not be good enough in a couple of years. VDSL does not have the bandwidth needed for future growth. AT&T says they will just change their strategy to FTTH, but I don't think it's that easy. FTTH requires different equipment than FTTN. So by the time U-Verse is fully deployed using VDSL it will be obsolete.

I thought ATT was doing FTTH for all new developments and retrofitting all old areas to FTTN.

If you build a new house it should be FTTH.

If you're using cat5 to transport the data in the house, you have FTTP, and rebooting the box fixes the problem, it isn't an issue of signal strength or interference, it's an issue of buggy software or buggy drivers for the hardware.

nope! only areas they call "greenfield" are fiber to the house. which is very limited. I live near several brand new condo developments they don't have any services from AT&T except phone everything else they have to use either DirecTV or DishNetwork or TWC. AT&T won't even spend a dime to get their business and i'm talking major homes in the $500,000 plus range and roughly 80+ homes in each development. they're all very close together too in terms of lay out on the street so its not like itd cost them a huge amount of money to do anything really its jut getting them to put the network in. But if they don't someone else will.

LOL have to laugh. I live in an area where every home is 500K -2.6 Million which is several thousand homes but AT&T still won't/can't deliver anything but antiquated POTs telephone and "High Speed DSL" of hold on to your hats folks 1500/256. AT&T will milk these areas of their infrastructure to squeeze every last penny before doing any work to upgrade. Comcrap the local Cable monopoly holder doesn't deliver either. They have a captive audience, so to speak, so they can pretty much ignore the reality that 1500mbits/sec isn't high speed intenet connectivity in todays world.