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

[Mike Miller]

It's been my experience that I have had better service with ATT U-verse than comcast.  A lot better!!!  Lag time on WOW is very low compared to  the fsster but laggier (if that's a word) service from comcast.  Just my .02 worth .
Mike Miller a lurker
Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 15:54:46 -0400
From: bob.kline at gmail.com
To: grlug at grlug.org
Subject: Re: [GRLUG] AT&T's U-verse DSL service

Thanks.  That's the answer I was lookingfor.  The speed depends on the number ofusers on the line, just like Comcast.  Finewhen 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 asmuch 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 dedicatedconnection, like one more less fantasizes a DSLconnection 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 into 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 dayissue more broadly, but I'd like to at least thinkmy connection is pretty uniform.





After repeated calls to Comcast, prettyclearly it has no intentions of making eitherhigher speed residential packages or business packages available in the GR area




any time soon.  "No rollout is scheduled" is thelingo. 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 switchover 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 experiencesof anyone in the group who has AT&T's service.





   -- Bob


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