Just ordered U-Verse internet

[Cleo]

After years of unreliable cable internet and slow DSL internet it seems that U-Verse has become available here.

I've been seeing them doing horizontal drilling and pulling fiber on the main streets around me but I was surprised that U-Verse was available to my house as I didn't realizes that it's copper that actually comes to the home.

I just I ordered the internet only 18 Mbps download 1.5 Mbps upload Max Plus which was the max speed offered. I've been living with 3/356 DSL for the last year so I'm rather excited to have soon have fast internet.

[ArtWilliams]

18 Mbps is really nice but I really like the 1.5 Mbps upload! It is a drag trying to upload files at 512kb (or worse)! Tell us if it is as good as it sounds.

[Cleo]

Originally Posted by artwilliams

It is a drag trying to upload files at 512kb (or worse)!

I do all my uploads and downloads to my servers using rsync these days due to only having 356kb upload on a good day with regular disconnects.

I really hope this works as good as they are promising.

I'm not looking forward to setting up my network again as I have a bunch of custom port forwarding and static IPs defined. I took screen shots of everything in my Motorola DSL modem.

[JustRobert]

Originally Posted by artwilliams

18 Mbps is really nice but I really like the 1.5 Mbps upload! It is a drag trying to upload files at 512kb (or worse)! Tell us if it is as good as it sounds.

I agree Art because I am at that speed for uploading as well. Just checked and its not available for my address yet.

I do hope Cleo lets all know how well it really works.

[Torn Rose]

We have the Verizon version FIOS and its pretty damn great.

We also had cable and DSL to handle our work load as well as our 12 house cams and FIOS is able to handle it all and still have the faster internet of tubes we have ever had.

[bDok]

Please let me know how it works. My cable connection rox. So i'm so afraid to change.

I've had threads about this as well. I know it's a case by case thing though. So knowing what you get in florida isn't going to help me in California. However, if you get good internet where you haven't really gotten good internet before. That might be a sign it's worth the risk for me.

[Peedy]

Im gonna order Uverse tomorrow. Moving into a new house, figured I would try it out.

[Cleo]

It's in.

I'm a little further from the whatever it is that I need to be closer to (i'm 3500 feet and 3000 feet is the max for the max speed) so I'm not getting the fastest speed but compared to what I was getting on ADSL this is screaming.



The box is HUGE that they put in. I guess this is due to it also having jacks for TV and phone that I'm not using. You would think they would have a box for VDSL only customers like me.

[LeRoy]

Good speed with U-verse.

Its downloading faster than the network here at DTI. Things are pretty fast around here too.

[JustRobert]

I am jealous of those upload speeds

[Cleo]

One annoyance is that the modem doesn't loopback so I can't access my home network using my dyndns.com name from inside my network. This means that I can't use my iPhone to control stuff in my house unless I leave my iPhone on 3G.

Did I mention just how huge the modem is,

[Greenguy]

That pic is uselesss without two beautiful buttocks

[Cleo]

I found a simple solution to the lack of loopback.

I installed DNS Enabler Snow Leopard and setup my own name server.

"Another Scenario : This happens quite often - you may have set up a web or mail server behind a router, broadband modem, or wireless base station when you noticed that machines on the local network cannot "see" the server via its domain name, while machines outside the network can (e.g., you've used dyndns.org or some such service to obtain your own domain name).

In this case, you can use DNS Enabler to broadcast the domain name to all the local machines (using the simple configuration outlined above) and help them find their way to your server."

[Cleo]

This morning I decided to restart the VDSL gateway since I was getting all kinds of errors. This resulted in me having no internet at all.

Before AT&T would send someone out here they made me reset the gateway back to factory defaults resulting in all the custom port mapping and routing that I had setup being wiped out. Naturally this didn't help at all.

This morning the first tech came out and said the problem was on the line so he left and a second tech came out.

About the only thing that hadn't been replaced is the cable that goes from the pole to our house through a ficus tree. The ficus tree was a small braided ficus that came home from the grocery store that has grown so huge that the cable become part of the tree.

Today's AT&T decided that was an issue with this cable and was going to send the tree people out to cut a way through it. Not wanting him to leave I climbed into the tree and cut a path through it so that he could run a new cable from the pole through the tree to the NID.

This seems to have worked as I'm now getting over 17kbps.



Maybe today is the day I actually will have decent internet.

[Cleo]

Another progress update for today.

AT&T showed up this morning unexpectedly saying they wanted to change out the cable that got changed out Thursday with special U-Veres cable that has more shielding.

He also cleaned up the mess of old cables after I let him know that none of them were being used including the Comcast cable so now I just have one cable coming into our house. It sure looks a lot nicer no longer having 20+ years of old cables strung across my yard.

For the first time since I've had this service I'm not getting thousands of errors.



The tech seems to feel that I should be getting better speed then what I'm getting and said that the central office needed to make some adjustments now that my errors are gone that should bump my speed up even more.

Faster would naturally be better but compared to what I've been use to this is already amazing.