Quote Originally Posted by stevech View Post
Neighbor ordered Uverse. AT&T goons worked inside house for two days, pulling wire, undoing existing Time Warner cables. Then they pronounced that the signal from the crummy copper pair (U-Verse uses old copper wire), was too weak. Copper wire route was underground to the U-Verses VRAD and thus much longer than as-the-crow-flies. Duuu. They abandoned the job. Neighbor was left in a lurch to revert to Time Warner withoout high costs.

Just remember: they are trying to cram 30Mbps or so on old copper wire to your house, versus cable or FIOS (Verizon) which has hundreds of megabits or more of capacity.

AT&T (SBC renamed) is an absolutely unethical, dishonest, pack of liars. I suffer them in my POTS phone service.
I switched from TW to UVerse. When the UVerse guys came I told them to leave my TW service alone. My UVerse guys were professional. The very first thing they did was measure the signal at the NIC to make sure it was adequate. They worked with me so I had both services - I let TW go only some days later when I was convinced that UVerse was what I wanted. I have nothing but praise in my dealings with AT&T. And, no I don't work (or have ever worked) for them.