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

[Bob Kline]

Thanks.  That's the answer I was looking
for.  The speed depends on the number of
users on the line, just like Comcast.  Fine
when your by yourself............

    -- Bob


On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Matthew Seeley <matthew at threadlight.com>wrote:

> I have the 24m Uverse service in Jenison.
>
> 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.
>
> Then, AT&T went door-to-door and signed up everyone in the apartment
> complex.
>
> Now I only get 10m down on peak times, and 14m down on off hours. (Even
> when paying for the '24m' plan though)
>
>
> --
> Matthew Seeley
> Threadlight Systems
> PO Box 612, Jenison MI 49429
> T: (616) 328-5649
>
>
>
> On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 6:11 AM, west mi <west.mi420 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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