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join:2002-01-17
Dallas, TX
kudos:1 | reply to djrobx
Re: 45 MB internet service said by djrobx:AT&T can compete on price. It's what they did with ADSL. They had Expert Plus 6mbps at $159. In a single day that went to $44.95. They can compete with caps, too. Comcast is still only giving customers 250GB. AT&T could increase their caps, making them more attractive to some, even if they're a bit slower.
Actually it was $179.99 when I got it back in 2000, back then it was called the enhanced DSL package and came with 5 true (not sticky) static IPs. You are right one day it came down to 159.99 and afterwards lower  |
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well why would ATT settle for the "just in case" provider? I don't care if they roll out ftth or if they use a flying razorback pig to deliver internet. If the latency is good and the speed is better than the competition ... people will buy it. |
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| Latency and speed good compared to the competition? Interleaving, 24 megs? What is the competition here, 3g and satellite internet??!! |
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 maartenaElmoPremium
join:2002-05-10
Orange, CA
kudos:1 | reply to djrobx
said by djrobx:It would be nice to have FTTH, but the state of U-verse doesn't seem that dire to me. You are right in this particular moment in time. My cable company offers 30/5 and 50/5 connections at the moment, and if AT&T is able to get their proposed speed increases of 36/6 and 45/6 to about 75% of its U-Verse customers, they have leased a little bit more life.
Problem is.... DOCSIS 3.0 is already easily capable of 100/10 connections, and with upstream bundling things like 100/50 are very, VERY close in the future. Currently, DOCSIS 3.0 specification allows for 1.5 Gbps down, and 150 Mbps up with upstream bundling.
Not that we are going to get that any time soon, but cable companies can be ready FAST for 1 Gbps deployment. So can Verizon with FIOS, they share 2.4 Gbps per 16 users at the moment (or something like that), so you can effectively guarantee about 150 Mbps per person, and really, if you give everyone 250 Mbit/s, you are probably always going to get it also, as not everyone uses their connection in full. And the 2.4 Gbps limit is a limit set in the neighborhood boxes, and can easily be increased. The infrastructure is ready for Gbps to homes.
What is AT&T going to do? In 5 years from now, copper isn't going to cut it. What speeds did you have 5 years ago? 10 years ago?
10 years ago, it was 2 Mbps for me. 5 years ago it was 8 Mbps for me. Now it is 24 Mbps. Notice a trend? Bandwidth is growing, and it is growing FAST. If AT&T doesn't have a strategy, or banks on the notion it will probably not grow that much anymore, they are going to get hurt.
You have to spend money to make money. Yes, you have to spend it wisely, but spending it on copper isn't the best plan.
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Where AT&T competes and wins for me over the alternative (Charter) the lack of caps. Latency is still decent enough to not matter in my online gaming. 24 Mbps uncapped is far better than 100Mbps capped any day of the week. As long as AT&T is uncapped, and the competition is capped, I will stick with 24 Mbps forever even if I can get 1Gbps for $5 a month from Charter. |
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I meant IF att can deliver good latency / speed (which they dont) people will buy it.
I'm speaking in future terms here. Two years until upgrades seems like a business killer to me. |
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said by WhyMe420:Where AT&T competes and wins for me over the alternative (Charter) the lack of caps. Latency is still decent enough to not matter in my online gaming. 24 Mbps uncapped is far better than 100Mbps capped any day of the week. As long as AT&T is uncapped, and the competition is capped, I will stick with 24 Mbps forever even if I can get 1Gbps for $5 a month from Charter.
Well ... I'm sure charter will give you the option of more data. Id gladly take 250gb or 500gb/month @ 1gig speeds over 24mbit and never being able to watch tv, use the dvr, or even use the phone ... at least and expect low latency @ full speeds.
Now if ATT can offer 50mbit / 10-15mbit they would satisfy even those on the fence ... but apparently by the time they "might" be able to offer that in 2 years cable will be ready to offer eoc over cable or docis4 and will be in a prime position to do whatever is necessary to retain/attract even more business from ATT.
Whats really going on ... ATT has been and will continue to play catch up. What they will release in 2 years time hey actually need today. I guess they are at least 2 years behind cable then ... and seem to be gambling everything on this vectoring.
One question ..what if it doesn't work? There is a very strong possibility it wont. I seem to remember pair bonding would be the ticket ... NO. Why would this vectoring be any different? Bonding is an apparent EPIC FAIL ..otherwise they would be rolling that shit out as fast as people ask for it. I mean why wouldn't they... especially when it means the difference in attracting/retaining customers or them leaving for cable or FOIS ...or even wireless in some cases. |
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| said by StLCardsFan:said by WhyMe420:Where AT&T competes and wins for me over the alternative (Charter) the lack of caps. Latency is still decent enough to not matter in my online gaming. 24 Mbps uncapped is far better than 100Mbps capped any day of the week. As long as AT&T is uncapped, and the competition is capped, I will stick with 24 Mbps forever even if I can get 1Gbps for $5 a month from Charter.
Well ... I'm sure charter will give you the option of more data. Id gladly take 250gb or 500gb/month @ 1gig speeds over 24mbit and never being able to watch tv, use the dvr, or even use the phone ... at least and expect low latency @ full speeds. No doubt U-verse TV sucks, but I don't have a problem with using the phone (POTS & Cell Phone,) nor watching TV or using my (multiple) DVRs, that's the beauty of having satellite TV instead of U-verse TV. Of course I wouldn't expect certain people such as yourself to care about data caps, but I couldn't live with such low caps. I pay for my Internet connection so that I can use it anytime I want. I don't pay for it only to worry about going over my cap. With cable and their caps, faster speeds are worthless as all that does is increase your chance of going over the cap ON TOP OF already paying a higher price. |
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| yeah i cant say i agree with one flat cap regardless of speed. I think faster tiers should also include more data or even better ... no caps. |
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 NuckfutsPremium
join:2003-10-18
Joliet, IL
·AT&T U-Verse
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| Having Caps is a pure money grab. They have been monitoring their networks for years and see how much usage is going on. Between legal and illegal downloading, lol, netflix and the other million streaming services, online gaming, etc., etc., etc., their reasons are BS. Comcast on the other hand I do not understand. Why would you attempt or just shut someone off. Do they not realize that in future years to come 250GB is not gonna cut it. If AT&T wants to compete with slower speeds I agree, they need to stay away from caps. |
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| said by Nuckfuts:Having Caps is a pure money grab. They have been monitoring their networks for years and see how much usage is going on. Between legal and illegal downloading, lol, netflix and the other million streaming services, online gaming, etc., etc., etc., their reasons are BS. Comcast on the other hand I do not understand. Why would you attempt or just shut someone off. Do they not realize that in future years to come 250GB is not gonna cut it. If AT&T wants to compete with slower speeds I agree, they need to stay away from caps.
Well the thing about Comcast/Charter/etc. is, cable Internet has fiber nodes that are shared between neighborhoods/subdivisions. The idea is that if everyone is downloading wide-open then an oversold node will become congested. However, that's still a BS excuse as all that means is that Comcast can gain more profit by overselling nodes without upgrading fiber networks. Then they can promise out-of-this-world speeds that you can only use occasionally, out of the entire month, all the while still having congestion on nodes in which people can't even get the speeds they pay for. |
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What happened to the so-called announcement of faster speeds? |
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| It was hogwash. |
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| reply to Metatron2008
The problem with Cable, at least Shitcast, is their "Anyroom DVR" functionality and guide software is garbage. Not to mention their bandwidth throttling and horrible customer service. |
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NuckfutsPremium
join:2003-10-18
Joliet, IL Reviews:
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That has been Comcast's problem around my area since I can remember. That is why I never went with them because of the shared-node BS. One good thing about AT&T for me so far since I have had them (since '02) is my speeds have always been consistent and I get what I am paying for and not dropping out because half the neighborhood is downloading donkey porn. |
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»www.pcworld.com/article/156447/c···ogs.html |
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said by ERIC8585:What happened to the so-called announcement of faster speeds?
Did AT&T says that an announcement would be made or that something was in the works? |
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1 edit | said by fakarooz :Don't worry everyone, the announcement for the faster speeds is coming on Jan. 26th during at&t's earnings report. I'm hearing things that at&t is not doing so well with uverse net adds this last quarter after they stopped rolling out uverse. Its gonna be roughly around 25k new adds. In their report they are gonna discuss on how to penetrate uverse to get a higher percentage of users onto their system. Part of their strategy is to bring the total number of households capable of uverse to 25% within the next 3 years. In order to do so, they observe that the vast majority of people not signing up for uverse includes uverse not having the internet speeds that customers want. Thus, uverse will be rolling out pair bonding to customers who request faster speeds. The news speeds include 36/3 and 48/6 on the new 60Meg profile. This is only for the FTTN customers. FTTP customers are not being upgraded at this time.
Someone on this forum said they were going to announce it on Jan 26. |
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| Yes the announcement was supposed to be made on Jan. 26 with the positive net addition of over 200k subscribers to U-Verse services, but it was called off on Jan 20 due to management not agreeing about the cost to deploy only slightly faster internet (6-12mbps more) with pair bonding. AT&T is currently analyzing a new profile that is going to be in the 40-45meg range. We are currently testing a few different profiles, but at&t will probably settle for a new 40meg profile. Also if you don't know already, all profiles have a 4:5 overhead ratio so that means you must have a max sync rate of atleast 1.25x what the profile is. Thus for the 40meg profile you will need atleast 50mbps max sync and 56.25mbps for the 45meg profile. Since most of the POPs that can have a max sync rate above 50mbps are in the 1000-1400ft range from the VRAD, this profile upgrade will only affect those. Pair bonding will not be an option as pair bonding does not have the upload capacity to off er the higher profiles. You are basically out of luck if you are farther than 1000-1400feet depending on your line conditions. Pair bonding will be tested once management can get some kind of deal with Alcatel-Lucent going, but its not going to happen for atleast 2 years. |
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| said by fakarooz :Yes the announcement was supposed to be made on Jan. 26 with the positive net addition of over 200k subscribers to U-Verse services, but it was called off on Jan 20 due to management not agreeing about the cost to deploy only slightly faster internet (6-12mbps more) with pair bonding. AT&T is currently analyzing a new profile that is going to be in the 40-45meg range. We are currently testing a few different profiles, but at&t will probably settle for a new 40meg profile. Also if you don't know already, all profiles have a 4:5 overhead ratio so that means you must have a max sync rate of atleast 1.25x what the profile is. Thus for the 40meg profile you will need atleast 50mbps max sync and 56.25mbps for the 45meg profile. Since most of the POPs that can have a max sync rate above 50mbps are in the 1000-1400ft range from the VRAD, this profile upgrade will only affect those. Pair bonding will not be an option as pair bonding does not have the upload capacity to off er the higher profiles. You are basically out of luck if you are farther than 1000-1400feet depending on your line conditions. Pair bonding will be tested once management can get some kind of deal with Alcatel-Lucent going, but its not going to happen for atleast 2 years.
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