Mon, Mar. 9th, 2009, 03:46 pm
The house is finally livable

A nice guy named Thomas came out and installed our AT&T u-verse service this afternoon. We've got television and Internet at the new place (yay). I swear I'd rather have this than running water. I've spent about $30 at the iTunes Music Store buying all the television we've been missing for the past 14 days and it'll be nice to get back onto the old broadcast/DVR bandwagon again.

I'm measuring a boggling 21Mbps download / 2Mbps upload from their top tier internet plan. I'm paying $65/month for that speed which is roughly 2/3rds of what I was paying for 6mbps DSL at the Austin house and about half of what I was paying for a 33.6Kbps dedicated modem connection a decade ago. I did give up all my fancy static-ip, routed subnet, reverse DNS goodness as a byproduct of the switch but to be honest I think I'm done with the whole "hosting servers from my house" thing. I just don't find that to be worth the hassle and complexity any more.

On the television side the DVR is no TiVo, but it's at least as good as the DirecTV HR22 that it's replacing. The online integration (for scheduling recordings from a web page) is pretty solid but the flexibility overall seems poor. HD quality looks good but HDMI support is sucky.

Looking forward to watching the Daily Show tonight!
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Mon, Mar. 9th, 2009 09:29 pm (UTC)
[info]paradox0220

*jealous* I was looking at u-verse and drooling until I saw it wasn't available in Austin. :(
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Mon, Mar. 9th, 2009 11:42 pm (UTC)
[info]greengalnblack

U-verse is available in Austin; it just depends on where you are. A bunch of people in my neighborhood (Hyde Park) have it, and I know they get it in Travis Heights too.
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Tue, Mar. 10th, 2009 01:42 pm (UTC)
[info]paradox0220

"At this time, AT&T U-verse service is not available for this address"

I'm near Mount Bonnell, that should be close enough darnit! :( :(
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Mon, Mar. 9th, 2009 10:28 pm (UTC)
[info]kevinblanchard

Glad you guys are getting settled in. :)
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Mon, Mar. 9th, 2009 11:44 pm (UTC)
[info]greengalnblack

I agree that no net access is like being homeless with a roof over your head. If I could only have one thing on a desert island, it would be the internet. I think I'd die intellectually without it.
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Tue, Mar. 10th, 2009 04:15 am (UTC)
[info]dbaker

After Hurricane Ike, I had functional internet but no water. It's all fun and games until the toilet stops flushing.
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Tue, Mar. 10th, 2009 05:02 am (UTC)
[info]hackard

...new house?

(checks site)

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
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