AT&T’s U-verse is coming to our neighborhood next month. Anybody know of anyone who is using the service? It employs a cable composed of fiber optics and copper and is supposed to beat out cable for quality and cost. There are three components to the service. Internet service minimally will be twice the speed of AT&T’s basic broadband. Supposed to be an internet phone service but I may just drop land service entirely. Their HD/DVR will record up to four programs at once instead of two. Only glitch being two of those will be regular channels and two HD.
The internet speed should be much faster as its fiber, that said I will stick with skyrunner and vonage.
The base speed is given as 1.5 Mbps. Thing is, where I am Direct TV is the best for TV and I can only afford the basic speed on the broadband (AT&T) There are no other choices except Mediacom which sucks. The new program coming here in August, could mean s savings over what we pay now. I would have dropped my land line already but it is a trick to get the folks at AT&T to admit you can do that and still have broadband service. I know you can because we have a friend that managed it. I have no need of a land line. Neither of our kids has one and frankly all it seems to be good for is solicitors asking for money.
It sounds better than charter. Where will uverse be available in the mountains?
You need to connect with them and they will let you know when it is available in your area. Since it requires special equipment and cables it’s going to be spotty at best. I live in a fairly new development that had fiber optics already installed which is the first step.
Skyrunner is only an internet provider, no TV, no phone option. What I would love to see is a TV service that allowed people to select and pay only for the channels they watch. That might amount to 20 channels at most. Why should we all be paying for TV service we don’t need?
It sounds better than charter. Where will uverse be available in the mountains?
You need to connect with them and they will let you know when it is available in your area. Since it requires special equipment and cables it’s going to be spotty at best. I live in a fairly new development that had fiber optics already installed which is the first step.
Skyrunner is only an internet provider, no TV, no phone option. What I would love to see is a TV service that allowed people to select and pay only for the channels they watch. That might amount to 20 channels at most. Why should we all be paying for TV service we don’t need?
Lots of VOIP carriers if you want to ditch AT$T. Google Voice looks real sweet. I would like to see pay channels that stream over the internet, that way getting rid of these cable creeps. I was so happy to ditch Charter when I moved out of Asheville. DirecTV here I come!
On a side note, does anyone ever use those music channel?
amen ... i cant wait to chase charter out of here .... i am in the deep woods so no dircet tv signal available ... as soon as I find a workaround I am through with them .... I thought comcast was bad .... there has to be some place in hell for cable companies ....
On a side note, does anyone ever use those music channel?
You mean channels? Got a bunch of them on DTV. They’re all XM radio. Sometimes I’ve played some of it but I have so dang many CDs and stuff, makes no sense.
I have DTV, as you can see, and like it but it’s gotten too pricey. Hopefully the AT&T system can save me a few bucks.
I read on the net where this won’t actually be cheaper than the competition? Anyone know?
They claim it will be. Talked to a guy and he said the prices may still change. For me the biggest savings will be in dropping my land line and not signing up for any internet phone. Verizon is serving me well. Why pay for an extra service?
I would have dropped my land line already but it is a trick to get the folks at AT&T to admit you can do that and still have broadband service. I know you can because we have a friend that managed it. I have no need of a land line…all it seems to be good for is solicitors asking for money.
I read that to be allowed to provide service here, they were required to offer broadband service for $19 or without a land line. They told me I was not in the area covered (I can walk to downtown Asheville).
I would have dropped my land line already but it is a trick to get the folks at AT&T to admit you can do that and still have broadband service. I know you can because we have a friend that managed it. I have no need of a land line…all it seems to be good for is solicitors asking for money.
I read that to be allowed to provide service here, they were required to offer broadband service for $19 or without a land line. They told me I was not in the area covered (I can walk to downtown Asheville).
I am paying $25 for broadband with a land line. They don’t really want you to know you can have this service without. The friend I may have mentioned, had a bit of trouble nailing them down on this issue.
In terms of U verse, I think I may have an edge due to the fact they wired this place with the right cable required when it was erected.
