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AT&T U-verse or Cable

My wife and I will be moving into our new home at the end of the month and are deciding on whether or not to continue with our current cable service with Time Warner or switch to AT&T's new U-verse.

My complaints with Time Warner are the shitty cable boxes, the $10 per month charge to have digital cable in another room, and the fact that the signal constantly degrades during peak viewing hours. Plus, only about 1/3 of the channels are actually digital. However, I have very few complaints about their internet service. it's fast and rarely goes down.

U-verse on the other hand, has 100% digital quality channels, offers three rooms at no additional cost (all HD with one a DVR), more channels, on demand, more HD channels and a better cable box (developed by Microsoft). However, their fastest internet service is only 6mbps down and 1mbps up compared to cables 10mbps down 1mbps up.

So here's my question, am I going to be lagging during my marathon online game sessions with the slightly slower U-verse DSL or will I not even notice it?

Does anybody have U-verse that can tell me more about the television and DVR service? Some things I've seen say it can only record 1 HD channel and three SD channels or 4 SD channels. Is this true?

Thanks

Update: I read a review article and it does in fact record up to 4 SD streams or 1 HD and 3 SD streams which is a bummer since most of the shows I watch are in HD. However, rarely are they on at the same time. Also, a big bonus that may have me overlooking the 1 HD annoyance is the fact that the other recievers in the house, can pull the content from the DVR.  NICE!!!!  Now my wife can watch her recorded Nouvelas in the bedroom without bothering me.



Posted by syphaqlies on Fri Sep 7, 2007 @ 11:08 am EDT | 4 Comments
Funny that you should blog on this since I made a post asking a similar question in the general forum.

My neighbor just got U-Verse. I'm going to go over to his place this weekend and see what I think of the picture, DVR box, etc. I'll let you know my opinions.

Posted by DarthClem on Fri Sep 7, 2007 @ 11:59 am EDT

Yeah I saw that but nobody really answered your question. So I was hoping more people might read it in the blog and respond. Doesn't look that way though. I'm already sold on the TV. I hate Time Warner so much it hurts, I'm just concerned about the internet speed screwing up my online gaming.

Posted by syphaqlies on Fri Sep 7, 2007 @ 12:14 pm EDT

If it's a solid 6Mbs down and 1 up it's should be fine. The problem with DSL is how far you are from the origin point. Farther away equals slower speeds. You might ask them how close you are to your origin point. ALthough I doubt any customer service would actually be able to tell you since most of them are idiots no matter what company they work for.

Posted by KingBayman on Fri Sep 7, 2007 @ 12:19 pm EDT

Thanks I'll see if I can get an answer on that.

Posted by syphaqlies on Fri Sep 7, 2007 @ 12:42 pm EDT

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