I feel for you. After about a year of experience with AT&T's DSL, I came to the conclusion I do much, much better the further I get away from AT&T's technical solutions. Happy new year! On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 11:06 PM, Marcel Duchamp < marcel.duchamp@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > update on my AT&T uverse experience... > > Having the choice of the new uverse setup or none, I chose uverse. They > told me my existing DSL account was good for up to 1.5mbit/s and the new > uverse account would be good for up to 6 mb/s - four time improvement. > And the price would be half of what I was currently paying for a year, > then back to full price. And they would waive the $100 fee for the RG: > residential gateway. > > I bit. > > What I got: > The RG is a DSL modem with wifi internal. So I unplugged my old DSL > modem and also my Linksys WRT54G wifi router. The new device seems to > work as well as the old. > > In my area, the hi-speed television and VOIP are not yet offered. So no > change on any of that. > > About 2 weeks ago, our phone began to exhibit lots of static and > dropouts. None of the new setup affects that; it is still poor > quality. So poor that it's tough to get up to 1Mb/s on the DSL and the > analog voice still is full of static. My wife called and they said it > was a faulty DSL filter on our end. I eliminated all of them and > nothing changed. > > Sure would love to see 6Mb/s... > -- > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > --=20 Life is Good! --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .