Uverse Internet.. Fiber to home

[Fritzo]

OK...so I point out your major incorrectness and you come back with a statement full of nothing substantial in the way of rebuttal...excellent debate technique. 🙄

Who's debating? You're having a good experience, good for you. Most of our customer base did not, and I pointed out the issues they had, and it's why we switched our 8000 customers to cable-based solutions. Experiences be differ in different parts of the country, but for the most part Uverse is a stop-gap product because ATT doesn't have the resources available to build an awesome infrastructure like Verizon's FIOS.

If it's working for you, then it's a great solution.

 

[moonbogg]

18mpbs seems way low for fiber. My fios does 50/50 with actual speeds more like 55 to 60 up and down and that's just a mediocre package. I would ask them about not ripping you off with slow DSL speeds.

 

[CZroe]

uh why is peeps paying $60a mumf for 18mb uverse win they cood git 50 mb for 40 from comcast

I've never understood why people like you seem to think cable companies are deregulated. You can't just pick your cable company.

 

[Phoenix86]

Actually your understanding is incorrect. In fact, the TV service gets priority over the internet service if the two have to compete for bandwith.

I'm not going to repost what chimaxi posted but read his post and you'll understand the nature of your incorrectness.

I'll dig into it in a bit, but I guess the point is, with normal service TV will not impact your internet speeds. I can max both at the same time and not notice speed or latency issues.

 

[esquared]

I have FTTP 24mbps max turbo. It is advertised as 24 down and 3 up. Highest speed they offer in my area.

I consistently get 29 mbps down and 4.8 mbps up. I get sub 10 ms ping times.

I came from Comcast (50/10) and overall it is worse (speed wise not reliability), but it is the only product offered in this area other than Mediacom (which is utter crap). I've gotten used to it, but I do wish we had Comcast available here.

I used to have the max plus. It is advertised as 18 down and 1.5 up. I would get 20 down and 1.9 up. I couldn't handle that low of an upload. I got my circuit switched from BPON to GPON in order to get the higher speed. No cost, but it required an account cancellation and recreation, a truck roll, and a week without service.

I have Max Turbo too:

Your Test Results (Tested on Tuesday, March 24, 2015)

Download Speed -24.7 Mbps (3087.3 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed -4.76 Mbps (595.5 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency -24 ms
Jitter -1 ms

There have been times when I get 28-29 Mbps download.

 

[moonbogg]

I tested my new fios sunday. It hauls ass and I think we only pay like $75 or something for internet, TV and phones. No window washing service though.

 

[Wreckem]

So in something unheard of for ATT. They have increased my Gigapower speed from 100/100 to 300/300 and lowered my bill at the same time.

 

[chimaxi83]

This is why you guys can't get nice things from AT&T, and on a scale of 1-10 with what we have to work with, this is probably a 5 or 6.

 

[ultimatebob]

UVerse is usually fibre to the street, not fibre to the house.

If you're paying for 18 Mbps, you'll probably get about 16 down and 4 up.

I found that it's not all that reliable, with occasional outages of a minute or two throughout the day.

Their TV service is also kind of lame when it comes to the free On Demand content.

 

[chimaxi83]

UVerse is usually fibre to the street, not fibre to the house.

Yes, it's almost all fiber to the node right now, but the whole point of Gigapower is fiber to the home, just like FiOS.

If you're paying for 18 Mbps, you'll probably get about 16 down and 4 up.

The 18M Max Plus package has 1.5M upload. You may get close to 2M, but you won't get anywhere near 4M. If all a customer is getting is 16M wired, they got a crappy installation.

I found that it's not all that reliable, with occasional outages of a minute or two throughout the day.

You got a crappy installation.

Their TV service is also kind of lame when it comes to the free On Demand content.

Can't argue with this. Free show selection with Uverse On Demand is meh.

Pro tip, don't ever let a Uverse installer use coax or your old phone wiring as the run to the modem, if you want any kind of respectable service. Cat5 all the way (until we start using Cat6). Coax is fine for your TVs, but only if it's either brand new, or you installed it and can verify it's RG6 and in good condition.

 

[ultimatebob]

Pro tip, don't ever let a Uverse installer use coax or your old phone wiring as the run to the modem, if you want any kind of respectable service. Cat5 all the way (until we start using Cat6). Coax is fine for your TVs, but only if it's either brand new, or you installed it and can verify it's RG6 and in good condition.

My UVerse (Now Frontier in Connecticut) installer used all Cat 5. It seems that there are issues out at the distribution box that cause my connection to intermittently spaz out, though.

I have the 24/5 service, and I get about 22/4. I figured that there was some VDSL overhead that was "stealing" that missing 10% of my bandwidth.

 

[chimaxi83]

My UVerse (Now Frontier in Connecticut) installer used all Cat 5. It seems that there are issues out at the distribution box that cause my connection to intermittently spaz out, though.

Ahh, Frontier. That could be the case. I'd be surprised if your facilities look any better than the pictures I posted. I thought I heard Frontier was planning (or already has) FiOS service over there?