[COLUG] AT&T and other Internet/TV providers

[Mark Erbaugh]

On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 15:18 -0400, Olaf Stein wrote:

> 2) How does AT&T wire the inside, is it Coax like the cable companies do?
> I am asking this because it is nice that you can add more TV's to your 
> house at no cost without a receiver if you split the coax cable and can 
> live with no digital tv on those tv's

A friend of mine has the AT&T Uverse service.  The signals come in to
his house over his existing phone line and go to a modem which was
installed near his main TV. There is a CAT5 cable that runs to the
"cable box" which is connected to his TV (via coax). From that cable
box, coax runs to the other TVs. I'm not sure, but I think there is a
cable box at the other TVs.

The modem also serves as a router with 4 ports and a wireless internet
access point and they supplied him with a USB wireless receiver for his
computer.  However, even though the receiver was no more than 30-40 feet
away (through a couple of walls), the signal at the computer was
marginal. We ran a CAT5 cable from the modem to his computer and got rid
of the wireless.

I don't know how the phone is connected.

I hope this helps.

Mark