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

[richard hornsby]

I don't know much about the U-verse stuff specifically, but my
experience TW vs WoW is that WoW is much more responsive to the (CATV
or ISP) few issues and problems that came up than TW ever was.  It
just always felt like I was getting more for my dollar with WoW, and
was treated (generally) to my level of expertise.  I moved to an area
not serviced by WoW, so I'm back to TW.

I haven't switched to AT&T for TV mostly because when asking about
using my $600 S3 TiVo with their service, 70% of the answers are
"negative, use our DVR", 20% of the answers are "TiVo?  Cablecard?"
and 10% are "Oh sure your TiVo will work fine".  My understanding is
that AT&T doesn't have to support cablecards because technically
they're not a cable provider, they're more of an IPTV service.  I have
their DSL service to try it out, but I need to do some inside wiring
work to the phone line before I can make a good comparison.

-rj

On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 10:45 AM, Olaf Stein <olaf at olstones.de> wrote:
> Thanks Mark and the rest of you.
> It seems like staying with TW, as I want to be able to add a TV without the
> cable box
>
> Olaf
>
>
>
> Mark Erbaugh wrote:
>>
>> 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
>>
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