What is Uverse Internet? DSL, FIOS to house or FIOS to Street?

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@kyomagi wrote:

I am almost positive its not DSL, but my question is FIOS to the house or FIOS to the street?

 

right now i have comcast and they keep jacking my rates up.  i have the 100mb connection but its not worth it to me.  the 45mb is plenty for the two computers in the house

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U-verse is one of three things depending on your home's location:

FTTP: Fiber to the premises,

FTTN: Fiber to the node,

Copper from the CO.

FTTP can be Gigapower (300 or 1000 Mpbs), or lower in locations where Gigapower is not available but fiber was run to the home by the developer/contractor.  The actual service limits depends on the actual technology (GPON, BPON) in use and empoyed by the ONT installed on your home.

FTTN (VDSL2) can be up to 75 Mbps at this point, if you live in the right place,  45 Mbps is more widely available, and 24 Mbps is available a whole lot of places.  If you live too far from the node, your best offering may be 18 Mbps.

FTTN (ADSL2+) is up to 18 Mbps, and the availability is limited.

Copper from the CO is ADSL2+ with speeds from 756 kbps up to 18 Mbps depending on distance from the CO.

FiOS is the brand name of Verizon's fiber offering (similar to the term U-verse, but much closer in service provided to U-verse Gigapower), which doesn't apply in any way to U-verse.  Unless you live in a Gigapower city, or already have an ONT on the side of your house, the best you're going to get is FTTN.

Keep in mind that 90% of the AT&T U-verse sales rep you might speak to will have no idea what any of the acronyms in this post mean.

so i am getting 45mb speed offering, that means i am getting FTTN?  Another form of DSL?

45 Mbps most likely means VDSL2 on two pair (i.e. using two circuits) from a box called a VRAD in your neighborhood, though it could be fiber (if you already have an AT&T GPON ONT on your home) or possibly a single pair VDSL2 (if you live right next to the VRAD and it's been upgraded to offer this service over one pair).

VDSL2 is much better than traditional DSL, largely due to the short runs (less than 5000 feet) and thus higher freqencies.  But it isn't fiber, so can still suffer from various and sundry sources of RFI.  Properly installed, it can be much better than cable service.  I know mine is a lot more reliable than the Charter service I had previously.  With DSL you normally never got the bandwidth advertised, with U-verse VDSL2 you normally get overprovisioned and get more bandwidth than advertised.

well i have comcast right now at a 105mb connection, the reps i have talked to keep telling me its fiber to the house, but i honestly dont believe them

should i stick with the comcast cable i have now at the 105mb connection?

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@kyomagi wrote:

should i stick with the comcast cable i have now at the 105mb connection?

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** This is a question you have to ask for yourself, but to help you:

Do you reliably get 105 Mbps from Comcast?

Is it up all the time?

Are you paying too much money for it?

** To answer the question "will you be on fiber:"

Do you already have an AT&T box on the back/side of your house?

How is it labeled?

How big is it?

Does it get power from inside your house (i.e. is there a power adapter inside your garage or something feeding it power through the wal).?

yes, i get more actually, at 6pm last night i was getting 125mb down 25 up

its been down 4 total times in a year, once was not their fault, once for a few hours, the other times for an hour

There are two boxes on my house, i did not get a chance to read it, one where the cable go, one grey box that i am not sure what it is

The AT&T box is usually gray.  It normally will say AT&T (or one of the regional companies acquired by SBC/AT&T).

If it says "Network Interface Device" on it then that's the copper interface box and you'll likely not be getting fiber from AT&T.  If it says something else, then you can report back what that is.

However, if you're happy with your other vendor including service reliability, bandwidth and price, I don't understand why you would switch.