Is there somebody you can call to get a tentative idea of when you might possibly expect them to begin offering uverse in your area? Garner (me) is on their list of roll-out locations for the state, but I just signed a 2 year contract with TWC to get a lower, locked-in rate. With the contract, I can cancel any time within 60 days for free, and after that it will start with costing $150 and step down over the remainder of my two years for the early termination. With the money it will save though, I'll make up for the cancellation fee if uverse doesn't get here for > 6 months.

4/6/2009 1:22:20 PM

^I'm sure they can get you a solid rate without a contract. locking yourself in for 2 years is a bad idea.

4/6/2009 2:58:20 PM

For reals, what makes U-Verse better than TWC? Is there a comparison chart anywhere that I can look at?

4/6/2009 3:13:49 PM

^^did you even read this?:

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"I'll make up for the cancellation fee if uverse doesn't get here for > 6 months."

i'm wondering if the contract deal includes not having a cap on dl'ing. like will they just tack that on? or will they give the option of dropping the contract with no penalty?

4/6/2009 3:28:00 PM

For reals, what makes U-Verse better than TWC? Is there a comparison chart anywhere that I can look at?

4/6/2009 3:29:06 PM

i don't generally do this in tech talk, but whatever:

there's a fucking 8 page thread here. there's plenty of info. just look for your damn self instead repeating yourself.

4/6/2009 3:34:41 PM

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"^^did you even read this?"

yes, I did. But why pay a cancellation fee when you can fight with them enough to get a good rate without a contract.

4/6/2009 3:42:15 PM

because a contract also guarantees that the rate won't increase. also lots of people don't want to argue on the phone forever for what likely won't amount to any gain.

4/6/2009 3:45:17 PM

a 3/6/12 month promotional rate also means it won't go up for 3/6/12 months. Or has everyone forgotten about this already?

4/6/2009 3:46:26 PM

24>12>6>3. and some of us don't have roommates to pass off the new rate every 12 months.

4/6/2009 3:49:12 PM

I tried for like 30 minutes and 2 people to get the no-strings-attached promotional rate but they wouldn't give it to me this time

They didn't mention anything about the bandwidth caps, so I'm betting it'd be one of those deals where I can get out free if they change the service in any appreciable way.

4/6/2009 3:49:17 PM

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"24>12>6>3. and some of us don't have roommates to pass off the new rate every 12 months."

Ok? What does a roommate have to do with anything. It was my understanding people call in at the end of their promotion to get a new one?

4/6/2009 4:02:46 PM

some claim to. but a lot of people swap off with roommates so that they can get the new subscriber rate. but they're really pushing the two-year contract thing (they obviously see the competition that's coming to the area)

4/6/2009 4:04:07 PM

Awww, how is this not in North Raleigh yet? I hate TWC

4/6/2009 4:49:34 PM

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"For reals, what makes U-Verse better than TWC? Is there a comparison chart anywhere that I can look at?"

read the thread, this has been addressed in detail many times

4/6/2009 5:05:47 PM

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"It was my understanding people call in at the end of their promotion to get a new one?"

I was able to do this very easily last time, so that's what I went for this time. Everybody just shoved the 2 yr contract down my throat. It's better than nothing, and a calculated risk, but I bet I end up doing better than breaking even before I end up being able to switch to uverse.

4/6/2009 5:48:27 PM

ok all you techies, i need your help.

ever since we got AT&T in our house, the internet connection on my laptop is....weird. more often than not, i get a "page cannot be displayed" message the first time i click a link. it processes for 20secs or so, then gives me the error. so i hit the BACK button, click again and it works. until a few clicks later, then it does it again. it's been happening since we got AT&T so i'm fairly certain it's got something to do with their internet.

how do i go about troubleshooting this? when i scroll my mouse over the internet connection thing in the toolbar, i have 5 bars (full strength) so it's not an issue of wireless signal. my virus scan hasn't picked up anything either.

for comparison purposes, hubby has a laptop too and doesn't have these issues...i'm the lucky one.

halp tww

4/6/2009 7:47:00 PM

Does anyone know of a calendar that predicts when U-Verse will be available in raleigh neighborhoods?

4/6/2009 8:03:50 PM

got a question and I need the answer in terms I can understand.

what all is required for uverse?

I called and asked them this and was told that the existing cable would be all I need.

but then an install tech came on Sunday and said that we have to use the existing phone line - which is on the other side of the apartment...

So which is it? Both? Why the phone line? I'm guessing the phone line is just some type of at&t signal and they'll use the existing cable for internet/tv?

4/6/2009 11:03:06 PM

The install guy that did my house set it up with the incoming coax. You should ask him why he had to do it over the phone line. I'm guessing he left you his business card with his mobile number on it?

4/7/2009 12:31:18 AM

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"Is there somebody you can call to get a tentative idea of when you might possibly expect them to begin offering uverse in your area? Garner (me) is on their list of roll-out locations for the state, but I just signed a 2 year contract with TWC to get a lower, locked-in rate. With the contract, I can cancel any time within 60 days for free, and after that it will start with costing $150 and step down over the remainder of my two years for the early termination. With the money it will save though, I'll make up for the cancellation fee if uverse doesn't get here for > 6 months."

im in the same boat, i have ~45 days left to back out of my 2 year contract, hoping to hear confirmation on the at&t roll-out schedule so i can save the $150 cancellation charge

although, im saving enough in 5 months of TWC contract that it'd be beneficial for me to just pay the cancellation charge rather than avoiding the 2 year commitment altogether

4/7/2009 12:32:57 AM

the roll out seems really slow and in small areas at a time. Someone who lives about a mile and a half from me doesn't have u-verse yet and homes about 2 miles in the opposite direction also don't have it.

4/7/2009 12:37:04 AM

fucking sweet. got uverse today. woot!

4/7/2009 1:50:54 PM

^congrats

4/7/2009 2:25:06 PM

Has anyone with U-Verse gotten any advanced features running?

For example, TVersity which is supposed to allow you to watch media content from your PC on the U-Verse set-top box (I suspect not).

Another feature I am looking for is to be able to view the U-Verse DVR remotely on either a PC or mobile phone without a slingbox.

http://i.gizmodo.com/5022574/the-future-of-tv-according-to-att
http://tversity.com/

4/7/2009 2:29:05 PM

oh man. uverse is a different world. I'm loving it. FINALLY NO TWC!

4/8/2009 12:58:31 AM

at&t trucks off kaplan today

they've been digging up shit all around here lately

4/8/2009 1:06:51 AM

well they ended up tapping into the phone line in the closet. I thought they used coax though?

4/8/2009 7:30:37 AM

that would suck ass if someone was all like, "HELL YEA! SCREW TWC! UVERSE ROCKS!" and then found out it was just dsl

[Edited on April 8, 2009 at 8:17 AM. Reason : s]

4/8/2009 8:16:40 AM

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"Has anyone with U-Verse gotten any advanced features running? For example, TVersity which is supposed to allow you to watch media content from your PC on the U-Verse set-top box (I suspect not). Another feature I am looking for is to be able to view the U-Verse DVR remotely on either a PC or mobile phone without a slingbox."

they haven't rolled out any of this yet

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"well they ended up tapping into the phone line in the closet. I thought they used coax though?"

uverse is VDSL - they can modulate the signal over coax if your phone lines suck, though. you can either use coax (via a balun at your NID) or the existing phone lines. for the internal communications, it uses HPNA over coax or phone lines, or cat5 if you've got it.

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"that would suck ass if someone was all like, "HELL YEA! SCREW TWC! UVERSE ROCKS!" and then found out it was just dsl"

why would that suck? yes, in general, dsl is horrible, but no one besides AT&T is rolling out VDSL in this area... and VDSL is fucking awesome.
for instance, if AT&T were to push it out, my line would actually support a little under 50mbps. yes, i know DOCSIS 3.0 stuff is faster, but i doubt TWC will be rolling that out anytime soon.

besides, we all hate time warner. have you noticed that you're basically the only person in this thread who is a TWC fanboy?

4/8/2009 8:37:05 AM

He isn't a TWC fanboy, he's been the same baseless troll his entire career on this web site. In fact, I don't know that I've ever seen the guy make a "normal - hey guys, whats going on" type of post on this web site...ever?

You weren't around a long time ago when he carried on a thread for many many pages where he was bashing overclockers as being the equivalent to a script kiddie...which, in a way they kinda were, but you in retrospect, without those guys would most bios and chipset makers be including great tools in their designs to allow us to tweak the settings of our machines?

Its obvious and near common knowledge around here that TWC sucks and he knows that, so he just takes the opposite position from everyone to troll them and get them riled up.

All you need to know about him is he basically cried and his voice hit pitches that are barely detectable to the human ear when an ECE305 professor we had once made him his bitch over a test once. I witnessed this with my own eyes.

[Edited on April 8, 2009 at 8:46 AM. Reason : .]

4/8/2009 8:44:59 AM

^burrned haha

4/8/2009 9:38:32 AM

Solinari pwnt, stay home.

4/8/2009 10:44:22 AM

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"why would that suck?"

It would suck because they thought they had UVerse but then found out that they didn't... I'm not saying it happened in this case, but it just made me think of how funny (in a bad way) it would be if that actually did happen.

And its not really too far-fetched to think of a clueless customer service rep taking an order for uverse and sending someone out to install DSL or for a clueless contractor to just install DSL instead of Uverse for someone.

[Edited on April 8, 2009 at 11:05 AM. Reason : s]

4/8/2009 11:05:13 AM

so uverse is a type of dsl! interesting...

well all I have to say is that it's faster and better quality than twc so far.

4/8/2009 11:28:30 AM

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"It would suck because they thought they had UVerse but then found out that they didn't... I'm not saying it happened in this case, but it just made me think of how funny (in a bad way) it would be if that actually did happen."

uh...they still have UVerse, dumbass. Doesn't matter if it comes in over your coax or phone line its still the same service and quality.

4/8/2009 11:30:40 AM

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"I'm not saying it happened in this case"

don't be a troll

4/8/2009 11:41:29 AM

it's hard NOT to troll you, dude. you're just THAT ridiculous.

4/8/2009 11:51:45 AM

troll vs troll

4/8/2009 12:06:03 PM

Sigh

not in Greensboro apparently

4/8/2009 2:20:59 PM

i saw an at&t service dude messing with the box at the edge of my yard and asked him if they were in the neighborhood to roll out u-verse. he said yes and that it would probably be up in a couple of months. they've been digging around the area for a couple weeks now. i'm in 27615 in case anyone is curious.

4/9/2009 3:52:23 PM

Please hurry to 27612

4/9/2009 8:39:45 PM

EPIC BLOCKING OF PORT 25

4/9/2009 9:25:16 PM

I can't get U-verse and after looking at the package prices, I'm not sure that's a bad thing.

4/10/2009 11:19:15 AM

we pay less for u-verse than we did for time warner for better (and faster) service.

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"EPIC BLOCKING OF PORT 25"

lolol most ISPs do this to cut down on spammers using botnets to send out their mail.

4/10/2009 11:40:09 AM

Neighbors are getting Uverse, saw the AT&T guy poking around outside their house and he said they signed up. Might have to swing by once it's installed and see what the difference is between Dish and UVerse TV, to see if it's worth the switch.

I was mainly disappointed at their pricing. It's about $20 more than what I pay now for similar basic content and internet (obviously upstream is better than TWC) but that's not including HBO. With Dish I get the HD package with HBO for $53 / month and TWC costs me $40 for their 10Mb service. It would be over $110 for U200 + HD channels + 6Mb internet. Throw in HBO and it's $15 more.

However you supposedly get free access to all AT&T hotspots nationwide if you have UVerse internet. That would be really cool to have but still not sure it's worth the extra $$.

4/16/2009 2:18:43 PM

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"I can't get U-verse and after looking at the package prices, I'm not sure that's a bad thing."

I'm paying less for more so I'm happy.

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"lolol most ISPs do this to cut down on spammers using botnets to send out their mail."

ohhhhhhhhhhhh. Well I called and had it unblocked (?topic=563399 ). It was so simple, much simpler than anything I've dealt with through TWC.

4/16/2009 4:24:49 PM

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"I can't get U-verse and after looking at the package prices, I'm not sure that's a bad thing."

Compared to what? My bill from AT&T is about 35 dollars less than TWC was, and I had fewer channels and only one box with TWC. The price alone makes it worth it, then add it that the service and quality is much better, well I don't see how you can complain. I guess if I switched back to TWC I could get it cheaper for 12 months.. yea no thanks.

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"TWC costs me $40 for their 10Mb service"

That must be a promotional deal.... TWC 10Mb service is 60 dollars before tax in Raleigh, with just internet.

[Edited on April 17, 2009 at 9:32 AM. Reason : .]

4/17/2009 9:28:10 AM

^Same here. We have more movie channels, a helluva lot more HD channels, two boxes in the house (as compared to one with TWC), and we can record 4 channels at a time - all for $20/mo cheaper than TWC. Best. Move. Ever.

4/17/2009 9:30:04 AM

I get digital cable + standard internet from TWC for $108. For the cheapest not worse service from U-Verse is $112 + tax.

4/17/2009 9:57:29 AM