AT&T's 'Expansion' of 1 Gbps to 100 Cities is a Big, Fat Bluff

Re:AT&T's 'Expansion' of 1 Gbps to 100 Cities is a Big, Fat ... by earlz on Monday April 21, 2014 @03:20PM (#7623082)

This article is spot on. I've had countless reps try to sell me on U-Verse "It's fiber to your neighborhood, so it's faster"! My next question is of course "How fast?" "Well, you can get up to 18mbit/s".. I have faster than that with cable. wtf

That's not to even mention their HORRIBLE modems that they force you to use after migrating to U-Verse. Search for "nvg510" and you'll see how happy your service will be afterwards, assuming they aren't using old unreliable DSL pairs that make it so your specific house can only get 6mbit or 1.5mbit, despite your neighbor getting 16mbit

Oh, and also in my city you can't even buy just U-Verse internet. you have to buy into their crap "digital" (another word for heavily MPEG compressed) TV service

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Re:AT&T's 'Expansion' of 1 Gbps to 100 Cities is a Big, Fat ... by ilyanep on Monday April 21, 2014 @05:55PM (#7624215)

Yup. I had to specifically buy another router to use with the modem because the U-Verse default routers don't even let you set custom DNS servers and AT&Ts were significantly slowing my connection.

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