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

[Bob Kline]

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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