AT&T UVerse experiment

We're giving UVerse a try. Documenting here. So far:

Salesperson made a big deal of the speed. It's sounding like, at best, it will be 1/4 the speed we get with cable.
Salesperson said they had AWESOME routers, there was almost no way ours was better. Tech said ours is definitely better, in fact theirs aren't even dual band. I'm not even taking it as a backup/repeater.
J's primary email address is bound to our old ISP, so that would go away. Yes, it's a bad idea to have an ISP based email address for this very reason, but it's still a consideration.

Charter speed test results, May 31 10:52AM (I have seen up to 60 Mbps here but it's not reliable)



More updates here eventually.

Well that didn't last long

We had AT&T UVerse service for about 8 minutes. That's how long it took to measure top speed at 6 Mbps, and determine that the salesperson was full of crap when he said they measure things in megaBYTES per second "because it's so much faster."

Oh yeah, this salesperson is getting a review from me.

My tweets

• Tue, 10:19: AT&T UVerse experiment https://t.co/YTQFA10zHM
• Tue, 13:56: Well that didn't last long https://t.co/2PBuKeVIPO

Book finished: Shadow Puppets

Shadow Puppets by Orson Scott Card

★★★☆☆

All the Shadow books are good. I don't think this one was exceptional, but it wasn't bland. Just so-so. Worth a read simply for completionism. I've already read the book after this, but #5 is coming up next - the library had both available.