Subj : Re: RE:BBS on Cell Hotspot
To   : KURT WEISKE
From : LEE GREEN
Date : Mon Feb 17 2025 05:55 pm

-> -=> LEE GREEN wrote to Ward Dossche <=-

->  LG> I am waiting 10 days for them to show up, AT&T doesn't care about their
->  LG> DSL and landline users they want them to upgrade to the latest and
->  LG> greatest.

->  "Never attribute to malice what you can attribute to organizational
->  ineffectiveness and monopoly mindset"

->  (Massively paraphrased from someone else...)

->  AT&T isn't great with their latest and greatest, either. My next-door
->  neighbor has AT&T Fiber, and because of our street layout, he has a
->  long run from the utility pole to his house. There's quite a bit of
->  slack in the line, which means once a year a passing moving truck takes
->  his fiber down.

I've read some of the complaints.
I had slack in a line that I thought was the cable company line so I
called them out but it was AT&T phoneline so they came out and tightened
it up now it's hanging again, I think I'll let a truck snag it this time
screw AT&T.

->  He calls AT&T, and within their 4 hour reponse window, a guy with an
->  AT&T fleet subcompact car comes out, says "Yep, your fiber's cut, we
->  need to roll a truck". They've stopped the response clock with the guy
->  in the car. 4-5 days later, a truck rolls and fixes the fiber.

->  Their "permanent" fix was to throw the fiber over the comcast cable
->  line on the pole to give it a little more height. That'll work until
->  the fiber degrades from rubbing against the Comcast wire.

But by then those techs will be long gone so they don't care how they
fixed it.

->  I've wanted to get AT&T fiber, as I need the upload speeds and lack of
->  bandwidth cap, but I'm concerned about the run to my house. I think I
->  might be OK if they can be convinced to do less than the absolute
->  minimum to get the fiber to my house.

->  I'm not confident of that.             

I wouldn't be either.

Are all ports open in AT&T fiber?  residential or business?
I'm thinking of trying Earthlink fiber but they can only get me 12mbps
or 24mbps where I'm at, right now I'm at 3Mbps DSL with AT&T.

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