[COLUG] Opinions on AT&T uverse in Dublin area

[Dave]

On May 19, 2008, at 8:06 AM, Brian McDonald wrote:

> On Monday 19 May 2008 7:25 am, Angelo McComis wrote:
>> Only 10mbit? Verizon FIOS is 20mbit, if it ever gets to Ohio... A  
>> friend in
> NJ has it; loves it.
>
> A friend of mine in TX has it and seems to be happy as well.  Plus,  
> there's
> the added benefit that Verizon actually went through the pain of  
> franchising
> as a cable TV service instead of crying to the feds.
>
>> I see the big boxes to support the Uverse service but haven't heard  
>> of
> anyone with it.
>
> I know someone in New Albany that had it for about 2 weeks.  His VPN
> connection to the office would drop every 5-15 minutes, and the  
> system was
> only capable of streaming a single HD television channel for the  
> entire house
> at any one time.
>
> He's a WOW subscriber now.



I briefly looked into AT&T's new service when they started sending out  
mailings advertising it. Once I found out you could only get one HD  
channel at a time I quit researching it since it's not uncommon for me  
to want to record two HD channels using my TW DVR. I'm also skeptical  
of their ability to send all that data (10Mbps internet, one HD or  
four SD channels, plus phone usage) over phone lines (at least  
reliably), but I don't have any experience with it. Can anyone with  
more knowledge on this than I comment on the bandwidth capabilities of  
phone wires?

I'm happy they've added more competition to the area and hope their  
service improves (i.e., they add fiber later), but I think TW or WOW  
are still the way to go if you want both tv and internet. I can't  
speak to TW's phone service. I hope the competition encourages TW to  
get their switched digital video working well soon and that they add  
more HD channels.

Dave