lol. i hate door-to-door guys. I never trust that they are legit and if they actually prove it, I never trust their deals.

5/27/2009 10:21:35 PM

Just got hooked up. The dude was competent. The gateway/router is the size of an X-Box 360, has wireless and a 4-port switch built-in.




[Edited on May 30, 2009 at 3:50 PM. Reason : image]

5/30/2009 3:50:08 PM

what speed tier did you get?

5/30/2009 3:57:12 PM

the 6.0 down 1.0 up. found out that the next tier up has 1.5 up, so i may upgrade to that.

also, i was watching HD TV at the time. i tried it again with the set box off and got the exact same speed.



[Edited on May 30, 2009 at 4:02 PM. Reason : also]

5/30/2009 4:00:28 PM

Quote :

"also, i was watching HD TV at the time. i tried it again with the set box off and got the exact same speed."

that's because your line is actually provisioned at around 27mbps

5/30/2009 4:21:50 PM

Dear AT&T,

I see that VRAD a few blocks from my house.

Lets be friends.

- Stein

5/30/2009 4:40:59 PM

^^^see?

5/30/2009 5:03:25 PM

Ability to program my DVR from the web is neat. It's like DirecTV's, only they implemented it correctly. Unlike DirecTV, I don't have to hook an additional connection to the TV box in order to do it.

Question: Is it stored on the local box? Do I have limited space?

5/30/2009 6:58:32 PM

is what stored on the box? your content? yeah, there's a hard drive in your main box.

5/30/2009 7:39:38 PM

Is the list of programs scheduled to be recorded kept on the box, in the gateway, or on their servers? That is, if I disconnect my gateway and login to AT&T from elsewhere, can I program what things are scheduled to be recorded?

5/30/2009 7:53:52 PM

Dear AT&T,

I see that VRAD a few blocks from my house.

Lets be friends.

- BigMan157

5/31/2009 9:00:12 AM

He raises a good point.

If its all IPTV due to the fact that their network supports all their users bandwidth needs simultaneously why don't they save DVR'd content in a C.O.?



[Edited on May 31, 2009 at 10:26 AM. Reason : negative i can see is inability to access during a network outage]

5/31/2009 10:26:02 AM

Is anyone else having a hard time watching HD channels without crazy freezing?! In the last two weeks it has gotten absolutely ridiculous, to the point that I can't watch an hour-long program on an HD channel without several instances of freezing.

Should we call AT&T and complain!? Or has someone else already complained about it and gotten a response?

5/31/2009 6:27:55 PM

^yes. I called and the tech said our box was on the wrong timezone. she changed it and the freezing stopped, for the most part. I see it freeze maybe every few hours now and am planning to call back soon.

definitely call and talk to tech support. don't let AT&T turn into TWC.

5/31/2009 7:07:08 PM

^^, ^

i'm seriously almost about to just throw the damn box out the window

it's so maddening

i guess i shouldn't really complain too much though, this is the first real problem i've ever had with them, compared to the 2395203958 i had with TWC... guess it's time to call.

5/31/2009 7:12:55 PM

Overburdened network?

5/31/2009 8:35:32 PM

glad we aren't the only ones with problems! i'll make sure he calls about it tomorrow.

and no, we aren't overburdening our network.

5/31/2009 8:39:25 PM

So... since the gateway doubles as a router & switch, I was trying to set it up so my httpd server was accessible from the outside. Setup the port forwarding through the firewall just fine, and indeed everything works for the rest of the internet. All of you should be able to get to shatner.philihp.com.

However I can't. From what I gather, the gateway doesn't support loopback (or something along those lines). So when I resolve shatner.philihp.com, it resolves to my WAN IP, then I try to connect to it and I timeout. However if I connect to the LAN IP, http://192.168.1.99, it works just fine. It's similar to the problem this guy had with his FTP server.

Shaggy suggested that if I could get the DNS on the gateway to resolve the domain differently for LAN users, it would work. And it looks like from the manual, that there used to be a quazi-secret management console that had a "DNS Resolve" page for doing just this. However a recent firmware upgrade totally removed this in order to fix some XSS attack. So that's out of the picture.

this guy got around it by setting up a router behind his gateway... I suppose I could do this, but it seems like overkill for something that should just work.

Right now, my solution (which doesn't really scale) is just to add in a line to my /etc/hosts file for all of my machines to make the domain resolve to the LAN IP of the HTTP server, rather than the WAN IP.

5/31/2009 9:08:51 PM

Can you disable the wireless on the gateway box and just run your current wireless router behind the gateway? I really don't want to try to reconfigure all of my static IP assignments and port forwarding settings in the new gateway. Can you even assign static IPs with the gateway?

UVerse is not in my neighborhood yet, but when they are I would like to switch to their internet service to get rid of TWC once and for all.

6/1/2009 8:09:22 AM

^^strange. i just tried it as well on my end, and it resolves to my WAN IP.

have you looked at this? or is this the quasi-secret management console you were referring to? i haven't found another way to change the DNS that DHCP hands out on the router itself - i think your hosts file solution is as elegant as you're going to get without setting up another dnsmasq server or something. i do love that MDC page, though, especially for the diagnostic info and the resets you can do (like forcing it to retrain on your line). there's also another page that basically dumps EVERYTHING in the gateway's config files and logs into a JSON-like format - i can't remember where it is right now, but i can see many potential uses for it.

^ (and somewhat ^^):
yes, you can disable the wireless. you can even stick your current router in the 2wire's DMZ so it basically just acts as a modem.

there are a few problems with this, however:
1) if your current router doesn't support passing multicast from the WAN interface, your STBs won't work (or, at the very least, they won't work consistently)
2) i'd be willing to say that all consumer routers (well, technically speaking, gateways) out there right now simply can't handle the traffic it takes to push iptv and do internet duties as well. the 2wire gateway has some sort of special firmware (or maybe an ASIC) that offloads the iptv stuff, apparently. i tried doing this with a damn linksys WRT600N that has a pretty beefy processor in it, and i still got dropped frames and pixellation all over the place on the STBs.

so, yeah. if you want to do this, you'd be wise to run two networks - one from the 2wire gateway that feeds your wireless router and your STBs, and another that feeds your computers from your wireless router.

the way i have it set up right now, my WRT600N just acts as a dumb access point. i use it for wireless instead of the 2wire gateway because it has 802.11n and will take external antennas without me cracking it open. all of the wireless clients get their DHCP leases from the 2wire gateway.

i don't understand what you're talking about when you say you're assigning static IPs in the router - are you talking about DHCP reservations? if so, i don't think there's a way to do that in the gateway, but you really have no need for them - the port forwarding settings on the 2wire gateway are tied to the MAC, not the IP. also, it's a whole lot easier to just use hostnames instead of IPs - i haven't found a way to change the domain name that dnsmasq uses for DHCP leases (i like using e00.lan, for instance), but all of your machines will receive (hostname).gateway.2wire.net as their hostname when they get a DHCP lease.

6/1/2009 9:43:13 AM

^Good to know. I currently assign static IPs to each MAC address at home. Then I use that IP to run machines remotely within the network. It may not be the most efficient, but once I got it to work, I just kept doing it. It sounds like host names would work just as well with UVerse.

6/1/2009 9:52:55 PM

A lot of freezing problems lately too, though pretty much only when watching TV on the DVR box (my office almost never has a blip).

WHat do your data error stats look like from:
http://192.168.1.254/xslt?PAGE=B04&THISPAGE=B01&NEXTPAGE=B04

Collected for 9 days 17:16:39
			Since Reset	24-Hrs	15-Mins	Time Since Last Event
DSL Link Retrains:		0	0	0	0:00:00
DSL Training Errors:		1	0	0	9 days 17:14:26
DSL Training Timeouts:		2	0	0	9 days 17:14:49
DSL Loss of Framing Failures:	0	0	0	0:00:00
DSL Loss of Signal Failures:	0	0	0	0:00:00
DSL Loss of Power Failures:	0	0	0	0:00:00
DSL Loss of Margin Failures:	0	0	0	0:00:00
DSL Cumulative Errored Seconds:	2	0	0	22:37:32
DSL Severely Errored Seconds:	1	0	0	22:37:32
DSL Corrected Blocks:		12079	670	0	1:47:16
DSL Uncorrected Blocks:		26	0	0	22:37:32

6/2/2009 12:22:55 AM

even better:

http://192.168.1.254/xslt?PAGE=J04


http://192.168.1.254/xslt?PAGE=J42

6/2/2009 1:36:38 AM

AVAILABLE OFF KAPLAN JUST GOT THE POSTCARD

6/9/2009 10:00:03 PM

anyone figure out how to program the remote if a code isn't available?

6/9/2009 10:13:41 PM

anyone had directTV and switched to uverse?

I like my directTV service but the DVR menu is pathetically slow and sluggish. Also I think my contract runs out soon.

6/10/2009 8:45:32 AM

So apparently AT&T U-Verse is available to me in Garner. There were some guys out there trying to get people to order. I caved in and orderd the U200 or whatever it's called with the internet service. Canceled it the next day when I did some research and found out all their stuff is IPTV and won't work with any of my QAM tuners. I really don't want a set top box or a DVR from the providers.

6/10/2009 8:53:34 AM

^^^ where off Kaplan? I saw the VRAD box down at the corner of Gorman and Avent Ferry, is there another one somewhere around here? I am over on Lorimer and just checked my address at AT&T's site and was told it's still not available.

6/10/2009 10:13:57 AM

Theres boxes all up and down Kaplan.

6/10/2009 10:50:06 AM

Still up over here at the corner of Gorman and Kaplan. Couple weeks into using it, and it still rocks.

6/10/2009 12:20:20 PM

Quote :

"Ability to program my DVR from the web is neat. It's like DirecTV's, only they implemented it correctly. Unlike DirecTV, I don't have to hook an additional connection to the TV box in order to do it."

A little old, but you can program DirecTV DVRs from the web/cell phone without any additional connections to the DVR, at least since I've had it. Now, the box does need a broadband internet connection to access most of their On Demand content. Lately they've been beaming down ~10 1080p On Demand movies to everyone with a DVR and storing them on your hard drive. These can be accessed without any internet connection as they are received during tuner downtime over the satellite.

Quote :

"anyone had directTV and switched to uverse?"

Never seen UVerse TV in person, but most people online say DirecTV's HD picture quality is better due to a higher max bit rate on the MPEG4 streams (8Mbps vs. 10+). UVerse's (and pretty much everyone's) SD picture quality is better though, since DirecTV still uses bit starved MPEG2 streams for their SD broadcasts.

I've been pretty happy with DirecTV overall, especially since I installed their single wire system, and probably wouldn't switch to anything short of FiOS for TV.

6/10/2009 1:07:06 PM

forgive me if this has been asked and answered already, but I don't feel like going back through this thread...

Is AT&T offering just internet service? I def. do not want home phone service and I am pretty happy with my DTV package, but I would LOVE to get rid of RoadRunner. Is anyone doing this? If so, what are you paying?

6/10/2009 4:16:31 PM

Yes they do. Go to the website and price it out. IIRC, it was ~$35 for their slowest service.

6/10/2009 5:50:05 PM

When I canceled my order last week, I told them I'd still be interested in getting their internet service. I was told that you can't just get internet without a cable package.

6/12/2009 11:47:52 AM

https://uverse1.att.com/un/lsBuildOwnOrder.do

Quote :

"18.0 Mbps Max 18 Starting at $65/mo. Max 18 Internet Speed 10.0 Mbps Max Starting at $55/mo. Max Internet Speed 6.0 Mbps Elite Starting at $43/mo. Elite Internet Speed 3.0 Mbps Pro Starting at $38/mo. Pro Internet Speed 1.5 Mbps Express Starting at $33/mo. Express Internet Speed "

According to their website you can get it alone.

6/12/2009 11:59:21 AM

wooooooooooot! The place I'm moving into in August has U-Verse available! Finally. Cable is a bit more than what I was expecting, but we're not going to get that anyways. This is the first time since I moved to NC that I won't have to deal with TWC.

6/12/2009 4:01:41 PM

Free WiFi Hotspots (normally $20) for AT&T Customers. I'm not sure if it's because I'm an iPhone user or a U-Verse user. http://www.att.com/gen/general?pid=13540

6/16/2009 5:35:01 AM

is the picture quality as bad as i've heard?

6/16/2009 8:12:05 AM

WHAT?

the picture quality is awesome

6/16/2009 8:35:56 AM

Quote :

"Free WiFi Hotspots (normally $20) for AT&T Customers. I'm not sure if it's because I'm an iPhone user or a U-Verse user."

damn. they have NC covered! and I'm thinking it's from the iphone. uverse has its own webiste, specials, department, etc. and everything that i have ever dealt with at&t about uverse has been completely separate than other at&t items. could be wrong though, but it just seems that way since its on the att site and not uverse site.

6/16/2009 8:38:18 AM

It's for DSL subscribers.

6/16/2009 8:45:33 AM

so not uverse....

6/16/2009 8:50:44 AM

Got my U-verse hooked up this morning (near Gorman and Kaplan). Works awesome so far.

As soon as the tech left, I called Time Warner to cancel. The guy just kept on offering me deals to stay. He offered to give me a matching rate for the U200 package I got from U-verse, plus $200 just to stay with TWC. I still said no.

AT&T gave me $250 to switch

6/18/2009 1:33:40 PM

I called to cancel my Uverse TV. I had U200. Really dont watch it much. Was going to go back to the $15 package from TWC. ATT gave me Ufam for$29/mo for 6mo and free hd for a yr. Not too bad, I get all the channels I would have watched anyway except sundance.

6/18/2009 11:12:14 PM

^^^Thing about it was I logged in through my @att.net username

6/18/2009 11:21:03 PM

I am considering At&T U-VERSE over TWC and roadrunner. Do I really need a box for every TV in the house. With Time warner you can still plug any TV in to the wall and get the regular channels (0-7X) , just not the digital cable channels. Am I missing something here? Maybe I do not understand how this works. I really don't want to have to pay extra for a box just to be able to watch tv in the bedroom.

6/19/2009 3:25:37 PM

Yes, you have to have a box for every single TV connection. There is no "standard cable" type feature.

6/19/2009 5:15:31 PM

^^yes, you do. u-verse doesn't work like traditional cable... it's all IPTV.


also:

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=312886438&mt=8
ZOMG IPHONE REMOTE SCHEDULING APP YAY

and

http://www.att.com/gen/press-room?pid=4800&cdvn=news&newsarticleid=26864

Quote :

"AT&T Rolls Out More U-verse Enhancements at No Additional Cost to Customers Upgrades Include Exclusive Total Home DVR Feature, Broadband Speed Increase, New On Demand App and More Dallas, Texas, June 16, 2009 Since its launch three years ago, AT&T U-verseSM has continually evolved and added new features. This month, AT&T* will rollout another series of enhancements that make AT&T U-verse even better for customers. Today and over the coming weeks, AT&T U-verse will add — at no extra cost as part of customers’ existing subscriptions — upgraded DVR capabilities and user interface enhancements for all customers, increased downstream speeds for AT&T U-verse High Speed Internet Max residential and business customers, and a new On Demand Top Picks application for customers in select markets. “Turning on the TV and seeing something new is what AT&T U-verse customers have come to expect from us,” said Jeff Weber, vice president of video services for AT&T Mobility and Consumer Markets. “These latest upgrades are further examples of how we’re using Internet Protocol (IP) technology to give you more control and more value. With AT&T U-verse, you’re getting DVR capabilities you can’t find from any cable providers, exciting and useful apps, and faster broadband speeds. We’re giving you an advanced entertainment experience, and this is still only the beginning.” The U-verse enhancements announced today include: Exclusive new AT&T U-verse Total Home DVR feature. AT&T U-verse Total Home DVR capabilities will be expanded market-by-market in the upcoming weeks to add the ability to schedule and manage recordings from any U-verse receiver — a feature exclusive to AT&T among multi-room DVRs. The feature adds even more convenience and control over recorded shows by allowing customers to set or delete recordings from any room in their home, instead of from the DVR receiver room only. The enhancement follows the launch of Total Home DVR in 2008, which allows all U-verse DVR customers to watch standard and High Definition recorded shows on up to eight connected TVs in the home — all from a single DVR. Free speed increase for AT&T U-verse Internet Max customers. All AT&T U-verse High Speed Internet Max customers have been given increased downstream speeds from up to 10 Mbps to up to 12 Mbps — a 20 percent increase in speed at no extra cost. The faster up to 12 Mbps downstream speed is available to all new and existing U-verse Internet residential and business customers who subscribe to the Max service. New On Demand Top Picks application. U-verse TV movie buffs will also have a new way to find that perfect movie with On Demand Top Picks. The new application will enable U-verse TV customers to view On Demand recommendations based on their past video rental history and view a list of the top ten On Demand titles U-verse TV customers are renting. The app will also give customers the ability to rate a movie they have previously rented, which will be averaged into other U-verse TV customer ratings and displayed next to the title in the On Demand recommendations list. On Demand Top Picks will be available to customers in Los Angeles, Cleveland, Hartford, St. Louis, Atlanta, Sacramento, San Antonio and Austin within the next few weeks. AT&T plans to make the app available to all U-verse TV customers next year. Web Remote Access to DVR enhancements. U-verse TV customers will soon have a new interface to schedule and manage their DVR recordings from any web-connected PC. Powered by Yahoo!, the enhanced functionality enables faster browsing of the program guide; sorting the program guide by genre, favorites or High Definition (HD) channels; easily referencing recently recorded shows and upcoming scheduled shows on a side panel; targeted searching by title, actor, and channel; and personalizing favorite channels. U-verse TV customers will also be able to utilize sub accounts — in addition to their U-verse master account login — to access this app. AT&T was one of the first providers to introduce online DVR control in November 2006, and brought three-screen DVR access to all U-verse TV customers with Mobile Remote Access to the DVR in April 2007. On average, more than 100,000 U-verse TV customers use Web Remote Access every month to schedule and manage their recordings. U-verse TV navigation improvements. U-verse TV customers will have a more simple and streamlined way to navigate and find programming with enhancements rolling out market-by-market along with the Total Home DVR upgrade. From within the U-verse programming guide, users will be able to select Enter to pull up a panel of options to jump to another channel, time or day to find the programming you want to watch. Customers will also be able to select Enter while watching live TV to bring up a side panel that allows them to select from zoom and audio options. Free movie month. As an added bonus, all U-verse TV customers will get even more options for their summer entertainment with unlimited access to Starz at no extra charge during July. These upgrades are the latest examples of standard AT&T U-verse services and applications that give customers more freedom and flexibility over their entertainment experience. U-verse TV customers can also enjoy several other integrated applications, including personalized, on-screen weather, sports, traffic and stock information via AT&T U-bar; local and national weather forecasts on-demand; the ability to view personal photos on your TV that you have uploaded to flickr.com; remote access to the DVR from any web-connected PC or wireless phone; and more. AT&T’s U-verse deployment is rapidly introducing competitive choice and next-generation services to more consumers. AT&T U-verse customers enjoy quadruple-play integration, enhanced features and greater value, all made possible by IP technology. AT&T U-verse TV ranked “Highest in Residential Television Service Satisfaction in the North Central, South, and West Regions,” according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2008 Residential Television Service Provider Satisfaction StudySM."

6/25/2009 8:28:36 PM

I really <3 AT&T now. It is amazing what a company that actually gives a damn can do.

6/26/2009 2:10:05 AM

Anyone remember how to reset the DVR?

6/26/2009 2:17:23 AM