AT&T No Longer Offering Broadband In Most Areas

[R-T-B]

When will you expand to the Thurston County area of Washington state Brandon?

Lol... I have to deal with comcast, and believe me, it's been painful. Could be worse I suppose. I could have DSL... (but then, that'd be about 1/5 of the price too).

 

[eidairaman1]

FTTH (Fiber to the home)

PON, to ONT to Ethernet in back of Modem.

 

[brandonwh64]

PON, to ONT to Ethernet in back of Modem.

Pon to ONT to gig Ethernet no modem

 

[remixedcat]

It's a good thing I have comcast.

Try that on a different speed test site. ISPS whitelist speed test.net
Try that on a differe

 

[newtekie1]

 

[FordGT90Concept]

Just saw a CableOne TV ad. Bet you can guess what they were selling: "High-Speed Internet." I haven't seen the word "broadband" in advertising materials in over a decade. The FCC effectively made the word taboo when they "defined" it years ago.

 

[R-T-B]

"Broadband" actually has a sort of obsolete ring to it, don't you think? Kinda feels in the same category as "ISDN" and such now. Almost feels like the word would be more harmful to use than not, regulation be damned.

 

[xfia]

that is def a lot to spend on improving infrastructure. competition is good and all but It's so much better to see companies working together. don't really want att to sink ship.

 

[remixedcat]

thing is if you future proof and build well you spend less on repairs overtime and get more profits... instead they went cheap and have something with a higher TCO. Shortsightedness at its worst.

 

[R-T-B]

thing is if you future proof and build well you spend less on repairs overtime and get more profits... instead they went cheap and have something with a higher TCO. Shortsightedness at its worst.

The article makes it sound like they ARE future proofing their network, it's just not ready yet. Or am I misunderstanding?

 

[eidairaman1]

Pon to ONT to gig Ethernet no modem

ok so the ONT acts like the modem for that Setup, because How do you get Wifi then? a Residential Gateway(modem)? or just a router?

Uverse DSL Equipment other than 7340/42

http://www.dslreports.com/faq/uverse/5.2_AT_T_U-Verse_Equipment

for Uverse FTTP- ONT is either GPON or BPON on home to ethernet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100BASE-TX#100BASE-TX

then to the RG which feeds TV, Internet and Phone. Either the Pase 2Wire Model 3800(B/GPON), 3801(B/GPON), or the Motorola/Arris NVG 589 (GPON Only)

 

[brandonwh64]

ok so the ONT acts like the modem for that Setup, because How do you get Wifi then? a Residential Gateway(modem)? or just a router?

Uverse DSL Equipment other than 7340/42

http://www.dslreports.com/faq/uverse/5.2_AT_T_U-Verse_Equipment

for Uverse FTTP- ONT is either GPON or BPON on home to ethernet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100BASE-TX#100BASE-TX

then to the RG which feeds TV, Internet and Phone. Either the Pase 2Wire Model 3800(B/GPON), 3801(B/GPON), or the Motorola/Arris NVG 589 (GPON Only)

We either give the customer a static IP (5$ charge) or they run of our own dynamic NAT that runs through 3 ISG-2000 juniper firewalls and Infoblox DHCP server. These are being replaced with a new DNS setup as well as a new firewall. The reason for the NAT at the ISP level is the shortage in IPV4 addresses we got from our BGP. We are trying to get more blocks of IP's to give customers a public IP but until we do or change over to IPV6 we have to do this.

 

[eidairaman1]

We either give the customer a static IP (5$ charge) or they run of our own dynamic NAT that runs through 3 ISG-2000 juniper firewalls and Infoblox DHCP server. These are being replaced with a new DNS setup as well as a new firewall. The reason for the NAT at the ISP level is the shortage in IPV4 addresses we got from our BGP. We are trying to get more blocks of IP's to give customers a public IP but until we do or change over to IPV6 we have to do this.

Good Explanation.

 

[CrAsHnBuRnXp]

Try that on a different speed test site. ISPS whitelist speed test.net
Try that on a differe

Taking suggestions on that one. Im unaware of any other type of site like speedtest.

 

[eidairaman1]

Taking suggestions on that one. Im unaware of any other type of site like speedtest.

testmy.net

 

[xorbe]

AT&T also just slashed my and my parents' DSL connections from 9.0 to 7.5Mbps, how nice.

 

[remixedcat]

Taking suggestions on that one. Im unaware of any other type of site like speedtest.

speedof.me

 

[rtwjunkie]

Try that on a different speed test site. ISPS whitelist speed test.net
Try that on a differe

I can believe this. The last time one of the Charter guys was at my house, to check if his repair work succeeded in fixing my speed, he went to speedtest.net!

 

[eidairaman1]

AT&T also just slashed my and my parents' DSL connections from 9.0 to 7.5Mbps, how nice.

could be a issue with the modem, data chord, jack, home wiring, adsl/vdsl-pots splitter or line protector in the phone box outside(demarcation point), buried or aerial drop wire going from home to aerial/burried/encapsulated terminal, or burried/aerial cabling to the street Cabinet then VRAD/IPDSLAM RT/CO

I can believe this. The last time one of the Charter guys was at my house, to check if his repair work succeeded in fixing my speed, he went to speedtest.net!

those are the only 2 i know that can give a guage of your connection speed. I've repaired customers service when they were only getting 15Mbps on a 18Mbps HSIA profile, and afterwards they'd get 20Mbps (2mbps bufffer), Too many fixes to count honestly, a good start is a Brand new Modem/RG (Not refurbed), from there its wiring all the way to the cabinet, beyond that its the customers account/co troubles