On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 7:04 PM, John F. Eldredge <[email protected]>wrote:

> I did have to reset my AT&T DSL modem a couple of days ago in order to
> restore connectivity, but it had been six months or so since I last had to
> do so.
>
> --
> John F. Eldredge -- [email protected]
> "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not
> to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria


I have had AT&T DSL for several years.  Service going out has been very
rare.  There was a couple of days when it went down in our neighborhood once
about three years ago, that was the longest down time, sounds like some
central point went down that took a while to fix.

My wife just decided we needed to switch to AT&T UVerse.  (The salesman was
billing it as less expensive, but I showed it was almost the exact same
cost, possibly a few dollar more with taxes/fees as what we had been doing.
 "The internet will be so much faster than DSL", we didn't have the base DSL
so his recommended speed would be the same as what we had plus voice and TV
going across.  My wife still wanted to try it.)

The jury is still out on UVerse (TV and phone at least).  It's been one
problem after another.  They keep giving us free upgrades for a time and
promising things will get better and "this isn't the way it's supposed to
be", "please give us a chance to make it right"...  Then the techs get there
(initial install and trouble shooting) and they seem somewhat exasperated or
put-out about being there at all and like they want to leave ASAP whether
they see the problems or not, whether they are fixed or not.

The most recent thing was "you shouldn't have been billed for that [$300 of
installation charges]" which isn't resolved yet because the fax number they
gave me "The number you have reached is disconnected or no longer in
service"....

In summary, AT&T DSL was fine.  UVerse computer-internet has been largely
fine so far.  If you have problems... be sure you have at least an hour to
stay on hold (to connect to different people who might be able to assist
you, or not).

Paul

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