After a 12-day wait to verify that the last person that lived in this apartment has moved to Korea and is unavailable to cancel his/her AT&T service, I finally have a real Internet connection! I feel like a real person again. Since my new place gets poor LTE signal, I’m unable to use my Verizon iPhone 5’s tethering option in an acceptable way. For the last week, I’ve been working out of various cafes. It feels so good to have a zippy home connection. The Speedtest.net result above shows my naked connection, while the one below shows my connection through a VPN. Yes, AT&T U-Verse isn’t as fast as a Docsis 3.0 cable modem connection, but it’s cheaper and I don’t have to deal with crap bag Time Warner Cable.
Props to U-Verse technician Eric for being friendly and fast, as well as receptive to my wacky cabling ideas.
http://www.speedtest.net/result/2758236577.png
My Cable isn’t much better and it’s Docsis 3.0. I’ll be a UVerse sub this year though :(
Luckily ATT is going to offer a 45/7 tier soon.
What were ur wacky cabling ideas???
I had a bunch of schemes in mind, but settled on this one: RJ45 wired around the living room and into the entertainment center, router and cable box in the entertainment center, an ethernet line going from the entertainment center and through the wall to my home office. My initial idea was much more complex, but I kept paring it down to make it as simple as possible. If need be, I have an eight-port Netgear switch for additional hard lines.
Yeah that sounds pretty easy. In my experience its easier if u keep the wiring request simpler. Techs get behind with custom installs, like u were hoping for, the leave abruptly to make their next appt and u call in po’d off.