Ideally U-Verse's internet is effected less severely by more users than traditional DSL because it's only be twisted pair from the nearest VRAD/trunk to your home, beyond that it's fiber. In practice though...<br>
<br>I am exploring my ISP options as well, I had U-Verse last year and will be moving soon. Hopefully I can find something affordable, relatively fast and with decent upstream bandwidth and static IPs all to a residential location. Wish me luck.<br>
<br>---<br>Bennett Goble // Nivardus<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 3:54 PM, Bob Kline <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bob.kline@gmail.com">bob.kline@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Thanks. That's the answer I was looking<div>for. The speed depends on the number of</div><div>users on the line, just like Comcast. Fine</div><div>when your by yourself............</div><div><br></div><font color="#888888"><div>
-- Bob</div></font><div><div></div><div class="h5">
<div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Matthew Seeley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:matthew@threadlight.com" target="_blank">matthew@threadlight.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I have the 24m Uverse service in Jenison.<div><br></div><div>At first, it was excellent. Got 22m down on off hours, and 18m down on peak times. Was that way for the first two - three months.</div><div><br></div><div>Then, AT&T went door-to-door and signed up everyone in the apartment complex.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Now I only get 10m down on peak times, and 14m down on off hours. (Even when paying for the '24m' plan though)</div><div><br></div><div><font color="#888888"><br clear="all">--<br>Matthew Seeley<br>
Threadlight Systems<br>
PO Box 612, Jenison MI 49429<br>T: <a href="tel:%28616%29%20328-5649" value="+16163285649" target="_blank">(616) 328-5649</a></font><div><div></div><div><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 6:11 AM, west mi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:west.mi420@gmail.com" target="_blank">west.mi420@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Dealing with At&t is a very unappetizing proposition...<br>Being told one thing, then being charged another can be quite frustrating.<br>D <br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div></div><div>On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 9:06 PM, Bob Kline <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bob.kline@gmail.com" target="_blank">bob.kline@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div></div><div>A few people in the group have AT&T's 24 Mbps <div>
U-verse DSL service. I'm interested in knowing</div>
<div>how the service behaves. </div><div><br></div><div>e.g., Comcast's services clearly varies with load</div>
<div>throughout the day, and one sees factors of as</div><div>much as 4 in the bite rate in tests on <a href="http://speedtest.net" target="_blank">speedtest.net</a></div><div>( Just for reference, Comcast sponsors the Chicago</div>
<div>
test point, and always shows the highest rates... )</div><div><br></div><div>So, does AT&T's service act more like a dedicated</div><div>connection, like one more less fantasizes a DSL</div><div>connection could have, since you have a "wire"</div>
<div>right back to the CO? i.e., does anyone know </div><div>whether that is the case? Many things come in</div><div>to play here, including congestion on the bigger</div><div>"wires," but I'm pretty much assuming that test</div>
<div>server congestion is not an issue.</div><div><br></div><div>Of course service congestion is a time of day</div><div>issue more broadly, but I'd like to at least think</div><div>my connection is pretty uniform.</div>
<div><br></div><div>After repeated calls to Comcast, pretty</div><div>clearly it has no intentions of making either</div><div>higher speed residential packages or </div><div>business packages available in the GR area</div>
<div>any time soon. "No rollout is scheduled" is the</div><div>lingo. A 50/10 (down/up) Mbps residential </div><div>package has been available in Houston, TX,</div><div>for some time now. A friend has it, and get</div>
<div>the full 50/10, and then some.</div><div><br></div><div>Anyway, for the time being the way to get </div><div>better performance might be for me to switch</div><div>over to AT&T's 24 Mbps service. Comcast's</div>
<div>business service offers more uniform performance,</div><div>but, again, that's nowhere in sight.</div><div><br></div><div>I'd be interested to hear about the experiences</div><div>of anyone in the group who has AT&T's service.</div>
<div><br></div><div> -- Bob</div><div><br></div><font color="#888888">
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