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ATT U-Verse vs Cox

Wednesday, July 9, 2008, 07:07 AM CST

Yesterday an installer from ATT came out to hook me up with U-Verse at my house.  U-Verse is ATT's Fiber-to-the-Node solution for triple play network access (Phone/TV/Internet).  Newer houses actually have fiber to the home--in my case I have fiber to the telephone pole and then 1000 feet of normal twisted pair to my house.

I haven't had a chance to dig into the service too much thus far, but I am thus far impressed with the TV picture quality, channel availability, pricing and Internet connection.  I have more premium HD channels than I had with Cox, and the DVR also has a much slicker interface.


I trust the all-digital strategy more than the limited bandwidth of cable providers.  ATT hasn't invested as much in their consumer fiber infrastructure as Verizon, but they definitely seem to be aggresively attacking the cable barons.  All in all competition is good.

 

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so how does the cable box for u-verse actually connect to your normal phone jack? and how many cable boxes do u have?

Bill
July 09, 2008
07:23 AM CST

There is a Wireless router which apparently is the master device in the house. It is in my study hooked up to my computer.



There is one real cable box and one secondary cable box. Only the master cable box has DVR capabilities. It is run off of coax.



The secondary cable box is run directly of of ethernet from the wireless router.

nscm10
July 09, 2008
08:55 AM CST

Just in time to watch Shawn Johnson tear it up at the olympics. GO USA :) competition is good.

Charles
July 11, 2008
10:48 AM CST

I had U-Verse for about 6 months and had to switch back to Cox in the new house recently since it's not available in that area yet. Between the two services, I liked the online control of the DVR unit with AT&T, but I had a lot of problems with scheduled recordings not always recording. If AT&T can work the bugs out of the DVR system and increase internet speeds on their DSL service, they'd have a real winner. Cox just seems to work how it was designed...just doesn't have all the same bells and whistles.



J.R.
July 11, 2008
11:31 AM CST