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  • AT&T Fiber installation?

    From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to All on Mon May 4 06:45:00 2020
    Does anyone here have AT&T Fiber? I'm considering going with them and wondering how the premise install works. Do they leave fiber on a box and leave it to you to bring gig ethernet into your house, or did they install cabling into your house and leave you with a modem/router inside?


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  • From Android8675@VERT/SHODAN to poindexter FORTRAN on Wed May 6 07:21:33 2020
    Re: AT&T Fiber installation?
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to All on Mon May 04 2020 06:45 am

    Does anyone here have AT&T Fiber? I'm considering going with them and wondering how the premise install works. Do they leave fiber on a box and leave it to you to bring gig ethernet into your house, or did they install cabling into your house and leave you with a modem/router inside?

    I am fairly certain they will wire fiber to your house and run a ethernet port to whatever room you want, and I guess you connect that to a fiber "modem".

    My new place has an AT&T hookup, there's a cable that runs to an AT*T box on my home, then a ethernet cable runs to one of my bedrooms with a green ethernet port.

    I tried to get fiber when I moved, but they insisted it wasn't availabe dispite the line being live (I probed it with a multimeter), so no idea what's up with that. I got comsuck for a year, 200/10 for $50/month, which I think is a ripoff. I'm trying to get them to work on my upspeed, because I want to livestream shit eventually.

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  • From Android8675@VERT/SHODAN to poindexter FORTRAN on Mon May 11 07:04:53 2020
    Re: AT&T Fiber installation?
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Android8675 on Wed May 06 2020 10:14 pm

    I took the easy way out and stuck with Comcast -- basic cable (the broadcast channels), 1 DVR, the Comcast Stream app, and 100 MB internet for $100/month. Less unknowns, my house is already wired for cable, and there's no contract. It'll do until things settle down.

    That sounds like a good deal, but honestly it's not paying money for cable I have the problem with, it's paying money to watch tv with commercials. When you have options like Netflix, I just can't sit through 20 minutes of commercials in a 40 minute show.

    I guess it would be a good excuse to make my daughter go brush her teeth before bed, and local news I guess, but that's why I put in a terestriall antenna and roku has all the network news apps... I just can't bring myself to even hook up cable, BUT... all that said, I may have to get cable so I can get them to run a couple cable hookups to my garage. They don't seem willing to do that without a reason.

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Android8675 on Tue May 12 07:08:00 2020
    Android8675 wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    I took the easy way out and stuck with Comcast -- basic cable (the broadcast channels), 1 DVR, the Comcast Stream app, and 100 MB internet for $100/month. Less unknowns, my house is already wired for cable, and there's no contract. It'll do until things settle down.

    That sounds like a good deal, but honestly it's not paying money for
    cable I have the problem with, it's paying money to watch tv with commercials. When you have options like Netflix, I just can't sit
    through 20 minutes of commercials in a 40 minute show.


    The nice thing is that there's no contract, and I've gotten to play with
    some of the Roku options. There's Locast for local channels (we do watch
    local news a lot) and there's a ton of free content out there that'll help
    us save money.

    I introduced my kids to MTS3K last night - Teenagers from Outer Space. They liked it a lot.

    I guess it would be a good excuse to make my daughter go brush her
    teeth before bed, and local news I guess, but that's why I put in a terestriall antenna and roku has all the network news apps...

    I tried with an indoor amplified HDTV antenna. The scan didn't pick up any channels. :(




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