The U.S. might be lagging other countries in broadband penetration and speeds, but we are slowly catching up. AT&T is announcing today that its fiber-to-the-curb/fiber-to-the-home broadband service U-verse is increasing its maximum download speeds from 10 Mbps to 18 Mbps. (Upload speeds are 1.5 Mbps). The cost will be about $65 a month, or can be bundled with TV and voice plans for more. That comes with free WiFi at AT&T hotspots, including the 3,000 it just added with its Wayport acquisition.
AT&T’s U-verse service compares to Verizon’s FIOS service, which offers maximum download speeds of 50 Mbps. (The price of its comparable 20 Mbps service is about the same as AT&T’s new fastest service, and it offers upload speeds of 20 Mbps).
U-verse has 782,000 subscribers nationwide in 15 markets, and AT&T is expecting to expand that to one million subs in 22 markets by the end of the year.
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Comcast too has started the service.
So I got uverse installed at my place last saturday and it was amazing. The service looked great and all but sunday night it went down then it came back just to go down for good! My uverse after 2 weeks has worked for a total of 3 days. Good luck getting consistant service, at least in GA.
still too slow… they need to catch up to Verizon’s FIOS service 20 mbps up and 20 mbps down baby… That’s the sweet spot.
But 18 / 1.5 is not really bad either.
Wish Time Warner could catch up to those guys.
yea i have fios im on the 20/20 and it is FAST
i downloaded a 1 gig file from a fast server at 2.33 megs per second took 7 min 17 seconds
my upload is just as fast on anyday at anytime it dont matter my bandwith is mine LOVEEEEEEE ITTT
i can host games run servers fios rocks
18mbps? Uh-yeah, just like they advertise their Ultra DSL downloads at 6mbps but are really like 2mbps.
Your infrastructur sucks …*g*
My Hometown (Cologne, Germany) IS-Provider build since over 1year a 100Mbit-Infrastructure, This rocks …
The telecom companies are still fighting against net neutrality and are loooking into bandwidth caps so wahats the point of adding all this capacity if you only intend to gimp yourr customers service?
My boondocks-ish corner of the Dogpatch in SF might soon be getting U-Verse, and I can’t wait. We’re so far from the CO that DSL is ridiculously slow and Comcast isn’t out here…when I moved out here I was amazed SF even had such dead zones.
For a guy who makes his living on the web I go home to a connection as slow as what I had in the late 90’s.
I have U-Verse TV and internet service. It’s pretty cool. I wonder if my internet speed will increase even if I don’t change to a higher service plan. I think I have the middle plan.
so if they keep the 150Gb bandwidth cap, that means you can use Uverse for 2hours and 20min at peak speed?
Does anyone know if Uverse will be immune to the BW caps under “test” at AT&T?
Had Uverse tv and internet for 3 months this year. Finally had to drop the TV part of the service, extemely unreliable using their dvr. Internet worked well though. Never had a problem with that part.
This just makes me miss Japan. I just left and came back to the states this summer. I had a 47Mbps line for the equivalent of $38 and only experienced 1 outage during the 3 years I had it.
Not all places have this service, I’ve been trying to get their line at my place for 3 years and still no good.
ya.. I agree with Diamonds… because not all place have this service, like my place not have this service.
This article states that you can get this package at a stand alone rate, but when I called they said I needed the TV service. What the crap?
I can tell you, I have the 6MBPS plan in San Diego, and I get:
downstream: 400-500kbps
upstream: 90-150kbps
They need to stop advertising 6mbps/1mbps (up) since every day is not even close to that. I work from home, so when I tell you the average above, that is really what I notice, day or night… they are capping me out, and I just became a customer from cox that switched over 3 weeks ago, and left that 1.2mbps/500kbps (up) that I was getting from COX.
for chad…you should really contact att and try to get a premise tech out there…chances are you have a bad phone/network line in your house because i consistently get 5-6mbps with my uverse setup and 1.5-2mbps upload rate
Thanks, I actually moved after like 2 months. I called them and they ran some network tests though, sent me to a site and it said I had like 10mbps/2mbps
Thing was, if I download a file using a tool like DAP, and add like 20 different downloads and split them into 4 pieces each, I can see the full bandwidth (my point being that they really weren’t giving me what they said). If I get 1mb/sec up stream, I would expect a 1MB file to take a second or so, not like 10-20 seconds as I was seeing.
Oh well, just wish upstream was faster… working from home, it sucks to get slow upstream
uhhh…that just doesn’t translate. 1Mb/sec is 1 mega-bit per second and you want to download a 1MB or 1 mega-byte file. Since 1B(yte)=8b(its) then it should take about 8 seconds to download a 1 MB file with 1Mb/sec service if you don’t count the overhead on the traffic. With the overhead, you are looking at about 10-12 seconds which is what you are seeing. Looks like they are providing what they claim. You people need to learn your terminology before you start bitching.
You are aware when DSL advertises 6mbps that equates out to 600ish KBps, right?
Big difference between megaBITS and megaBYTES
Learn it.
Been using wildblue broadband for several years now, just checked my download via toast it ran at 1557 and upload at 369 kbs. I have the top package for $79.00 per month.
Until DSL shows up this is still the better way to go.
When i called att, they said they would provide me with 12mbps download and 2mbps upload, now when i go to a website that tests my download speed and upload speed i only get 6.65 down and 1.5 up