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

[nivardus]

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...

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.

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Bennett Goble // Nivardus

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 3:54 PM, Bob Kline <bob.kline at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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