Comments on: U-Verse Installation Guide

By: Will

Will — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 22:04:51 +0000

I ordered ATT U-verse on July29th and they told me install date of Sept. 5th. Informed them this was unacceptable. Salesman told me to give him a day or so. Waited until Aug 1st whereas I received a text from the salesman, new install date Aug 20th $200 MC Giftcard and waived $36.00 activation. (Cha-CHING!) U300 Service / Max 12Mbps Internet will cost me $100.00 a month for 6 months then goes to $153.00 unless I drop to a lower package (2 room setup).

By: Mofo

Mofo — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 14:08:25 +0000

RE: Julius (What type of Cat5E wire)

If insistant on using Cat5, then unshielded solid copper wire is my recommendation.

However, I would urge you to run coaxial cable, rather than UTP (Unshielded twisted pair). The protocol currently used with U-verse is HPNA, which incidentally enough offers better QOS for video. Also Coaxial cable is very much compatible with other cable providers, making it more likely to have a higher ROI.

I would also recommend AGAINST using shielded cat5, where will you BOND your shielding to?

By: Caitlin

Caitlin — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 22:15:23 +0000

I just ordered ATT U-verse (TV and Internet) yesterday, and received an e-mail today telling me that the installation is scheduled for OVER A MONTH AWAY. That is absolutely ridiculous. I called them up, and they said they could move it up by 2 days (which obviously isn’t going to help much). I already had a lot of problems setting up the account (prices online didn’t match what I was being quoted), so after seeing this, I’m pretty fed up and already thinking about switching to a different provider. Just… wow. Who would wait that long for installation???

By: dee henry

dee henry — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 19:11:17 +0000

I’ve had Directv for 10 years now. I’ve always been VERY pleased with my service. I LOVE my Directv SAT. I recently order the new at&t u-verse. I have 2 weeks to find out more about it before the tech arrives to install it. Please, I need feed back on Directv vs. At&t u-verse. I.m still not sure I need to be reasured that I.m doing the right thing. If anyone out there has made this switch, please tell me what you think. Thanks DEE

By: Julius

Julius — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 23:08:37 +0000

What type of Cat5E wire would I need to wire my whole house?
Do I need the shielded or unshielder with solid coper?

Thanks.
Julius

By: willia hunter

willia hunter — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 22:19:48 +0000

I had a terrible experience with the horrible new AT&T it WAS a good co for 60 years .Now they have made it garbage!!!!!!

By: ana mejia

ana mejia — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 05:18:46 +0000

Yes, Uverse is the best, ATT has one of the best customer service, all the installations that I’ve had are very neat…I dont know if depends of the installer or the property…the 1st guy took 3 days to install the service!! I lived in a duplex now that I moved to an apt only took 4 hrs to this other guy (townhome)/ I recommend it!!

By: Vanessa

Vanessa — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 03:50:00 +0000

I am very much interested in U-Verse. However, I refuse to use my existing wiring. Dish Network ran wires around walls, under doors that I can’t close and it is a total mess, but that was their idea of “Basic Installation”. If this company can give me a clean installation, where my walls are not bordered with white wires, then I’m ready. I have heard from many people that I’ll be very happy with this service.

By: tim sullivan

tim sullivan — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 21:21:02 +0000

got U-verse, couldn’t afford / didn’t want to pay for all 9 TVs to be hooked up. Several rarely get used so no big deal. We were told we could move the digital box from room to room as needed as all wires would be “hot”. Got a new wide screen TV for the living room and moved the digital box from the kitchen to the LR. Can’t get a signal. The living room is a dead end run to the splitter with working TVs off of it. Connections are all tightly crimped, shouldn’t be any issues, but, still no TV in the LR. Still works in the kitchen. Anybody got any ideas?