[GRLUG] AT&T's U-verse DSL service

[west mi]

Dealing with At&t is a very unappetizing proposition...
Being told one thing, then being charged another can be quite frustrating.
D

On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 9:06 PM, Bob Kline <bob.kline at gmail.com> wrote:

> A few people in the group have AT&T's 24 Mbps
> U-verse DSL service.  I'm interested in knowing
> how the service behaves.
>
> e.g., Comcast's services clearly varies with load
> throughout the day, and one sees factors of as
> much as 4 in the bite rate in tests on speedtest.net
> ( Just for reference, Comcast sponsors the Chicago
> test point, and always shows the highest rates... )
>
> So, does AT&T's service act more like a dedicated
> connection, like one more less fantasizes a DSL
> connection could have, since you have a "wire"
> right back to the CO?  i.e., does anyone know
> whether that is the case?  Many things come in
> to play here, including congestion on the bigger
> "wires," but I'm pretty much assuming that test
> server congestion is not an issue.
>
> Of course service congestion is a time of day
> issue more broadly, but I'd like to at least think
> my connection is pretty uniform.
>
> After repeated calls to Comcast, pretty
> clearly it has no intentions of making either
> higher speed residential packages or
> business packages available in the GR area
> any time soon.  "No rollout is scheduled" is the
> lingo. A 50/10 (down/up) Mbps residential
> package has been available in Houston, TX,
> for some time now.  A friend has it, and get
> the full 50/10, and then some.
>
> Anyway, for the time being the way to get
> better performance might be for me to switch
> over to AT&T's 24 Mbps service. Comcast's
> business service offers more uniform performance,
> but, again, that's nowhere in sight.
>
> I'd be interested to hear about the experiences
> of anyone in the group who has AT&T's service.
>
>    -- Bob
>
>
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