This is a sample guest message. Register a free account today to become a member! Once signed in, you'll be able to participate on this site by adding your own topics and posts, as well as connect with other members through your own private inbox!
I'm not aware of any difference. The installer used ethernet to connect the set-top box for the SDTV in my office (where the gateway is located) to the gateway and an existing coax run to my living room HDTV STB. I'd like to have ethernet into the living room as well, but running cable through my attic is a job for another time.
pretty sure its fiber optic.
Can you describe this to me like I'm about 4 years old?
Not into my gateway. The UVerse installer put a new whatever-it-is box (let me know when I get too technical here) on the outside of my house, but he left the same wiring both into that box and from that box into my house, and the gateway is plugged into one of the existing phone jacks. I think for most places it's "fiber-to-the-node".
Yes, please explain more before I drop Uverse and go back to DTV.Talk me off the ledge.
pretty sure its not. one single twisted pair into the house.
But you can drop TV after 1 month and keep Uverse Internet.
Well there are several ways you can do this. Having an XBOX360 helps, but if you don't the way you set it up isUVRouter--->Cheesy desktop win7 box--->UVTuner--->TV]]\/HDDThat's the simplest implementation. Now when you boot your machines you get a different UI than what Uverse has and it gives you access to your TV, Movies, Pictures, and Xbox games. (plus email and other #### like that)The big advantage is virtually unlimited DVR capacity. Only limited by your budget and HD stack. Some use a RAID array to accomplish this running linux, but this is not necessary. So if you DL a bunch of movies and TV shows on torrents they can be played directly from your WMPUI rather than having to do a reach around.If you have a second box you can use a 360 as a WMP extender and still have access to the WMPUI on that TV.
do I have to buy TV equipment / pay for TV install?Dragons said:
No, they don't make you purchase equipment to view their programming, like DTV does. They have been offering rebates (I received like $375 for signing up), so if you keep the service at least as long as it takes to receive the rebate (6-8 weeks), they will pay you (if sign up rebates are still available, I can't tell).
OK, I know most of you probably understood that, and I got some of it...like the good part, where you said "virtually unlimited DVR capacity", but I was serious about the 4 yo thing. I have an XBOX360, so please explain this to me like I'm a 4 yo with an XBOX360. Again TIA, oh wizard of the unlimited DVR capacity.
A 360 won't allow unlimited DVR capacity. The max HDD of a 360 is not that big right and probably not cost effective? (They could have expanded, but I don't know). A 1TB network drive is under $100 now. A 360 just acts as an extender so if you have two TVs you can have the 360 extend the WMC to your next TV. You'd either need to get a network enabled HDD or have your main machine have a large enough HD that could serve your needs. Typically though the huge HD is not found on basic desktops so it's more cost effective to get a HDD a Desktop machine and a 360 (For multiple TV setups). You also have to get an IR Blaster, but those are not super expensive. Some of the IR Blasters are just sick though. The dude had one that was like the size of two Iphones and full touch screen.the hairy scotsman said:OK, I know most of you probably understood that, and I got some of it...like the good part, where you said "virtually unlimited DVR capacity", but I was serious about the 4 yo thing. I have an XBOX360, so please explain this to me like I'm a 4 yo with an XBOX360. Again TIA, oh wizard of the unlimited DVR capacity.culdeus said:
malware? The internetz portion of this should be the most stable part.Got the uverse this past weekendEverything was great until I hooked up my computer(just moved and couldn't find my key board)The #### hit the fan. Damn thing freezes up every 15-20 minutes, and my wife is yelling at me because I wanted this crap. Anyone else have these problems?........not talking about the wife either
Sounds similar to the problem I'm having. Good luck with customer support. Horrible.Got the uverse this past weekendEverything was great until I hooked up my computer(just moved and couldn't find my key board)The #### hit the fan. Damn thing freezes up every 15-20 minutes, and my wife is yelling at me because I wanted this crap. Anyone else have these problems?........not talking about the wife either
how/where did you hook up the computer?
OK - I'm in the 4-year old camp here. This sounds awesome, but I am still a bit confused.I have UVerse. I have a PC with Vista and a 1 TB external hardrive consisting of legally purchased movies and absolutley no porn. What do I need to purchase/do to watch said legal/non porn movies on my TV?
There ain't much on U200 that U100 doesn't have now. VS and Golf seem to be the biggest ones.
baby steps
Still a very satisfied customer here after nearly three years with no problems, great service.Dragons said:Sounds similar to the problem I'm having. Good luck with customer support. Horrible.Wrigley said:Got the uverse this past weekendEverything was great until I hooked up my computer(just moved and couldn't find my key board)The #### hit the fan. Damn thing freezes up every 15-20 minutes, and my wife is yelling at me because I wanted this crap. Anyone else have these problems?........not talking about the wife either
I was very satisfied until I had a problem. I would still be satisfied had they been able to correct that problem with a reasonable amount of effort on my part. But tech support has been atrocious and I have put in hours of troubleshooting/waiting on the phone time and the problem is still not completely resolved over a month later.Still a very satisfied customer here after nearly three years with no problems, great service.Dragons said:Sounds similar to the problem I'm having. Good luck with customer support. Horrible.Wrigley said:Got the uverse this past weekendEverything was great until I hooked up my computer(just moved and couldn't find my key board)The #### hit the fan. Damn thing freezes up every 15-20 minutes, and my wife is yelling at me because I wanted this crap. Anyone else have these problems?........not talking about the wife either
Are these all still legit issues with Uverse TV/DVR? The price hikes in sunday ticket have me near jumping ship. These listed things make me unsure. Also, so I'm understanding this -- you only get one "master" DVR, and all other boxes in the house read from this? Is this still correct? Currently with DTV and 2 HD DVRs, we can record watch 2 HD programs on each DVR at the same time (4 total in the house, simultaneously.) We would be limited to 2 simultaneous HD channels at once accross the house, no matter how many TVs/recievers/DVRs we have from them?
You can get more than one master DVR, but they cost an additional fee. You are still limited to 2 HD feeds regardless of how many of the hard drive systems you have. Remember this is IPTV you are getting so there are going to be some drawbacks.Most of the rest of the issues above are still present, but the space available thing has never been an issue. If you are tech savvy you can put the system on a RAID array and have unlimited DVR space if you wish. You can't do that with DTV.
Sure it does.To check it:
I couldn't do what you're talking about with TW. I have MUCH more functionality with UVerse's DVR. Re: your Gameday problem, when you set up the series recording intitially, did you set it to record "First run only" or "First run & Rerun"? It should probably be set for "First run only". Also, on the Time setting, you can narrow it down to the time of day you want it to record, such as "Any day, around 7:00 PM", or set it for "Any day, any time, once per day", as opposed to "Any day, any time".
Yes. The only differentiator is whether the box has a hard drive or not. Without the hard drive it can't pause/rewind live TV or record. There is an easy workaround which I described in some detail. All you need to do is start straight recording a show then start playback from the recorded TV menu and you can pause/FF at will. This is why hardly anyone has two HD (hard drive in this case) boxes since they made the software switch to allow control from any box to a central one.
space available has been an issue for me. Any suggestions as to how a non-tech-savvy person can increase the DVR space?
The cheap route would be to install a different SATA drive.Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3500630AS 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Hard Drive (Perpendicular Recording) -Bare DriveIs an option. 500GB is the max HD that DVR will take internally. If you do the external install it's a much more hardware and software intensive swap. This one is the same form factor as the 125GB Seagate drive that went out in the first gen boxes. 250GB is the largest HD Uverse is currently shipping.You are responsible for damage to the box, but they won't cut your service off if you damage your box trying to mod it like DTV will.
All you need is a phone junction box outside of your house. Even if you don't have a land line, you should still have that and be capable of getting service. If you don't have that, you're out of luck. What they'll do during the installation is switch your phone junction over to their fiber lines. They have a fiber run somewhere in your neighborhood, but the final leg will be copper and runs over the phone line. From that phone junction box, they'll run another set of twisted pair cable that will go into your house. This is what will connect to the gateway. Even if you have phone jacks in your house, they won't be used to make that run. Technically they might be able to if you have cat5 at your phone wire, but I seriously doubt they would. From that point, they can either go to the rest of the house via Cat5 or Coax.
So it might be possible for them to have multiple sets of wires running into your junction box - one to the fiber drop and another to the traditional POTS network. I know that my guy switched mine over, so at this point I'm fairly certain I can't run analog phones. There may be some extra wires though and I could demand it, it's just their default policy to just cut people over. I don't really care - analog service costs too much.
Love NFL Redzone. I talked a guy at work into dropping DirecTV for U-Verse just on that basis alone. He was sick of paying for the Sunday ticket.I'll also be ticked off if I can't get U-Verse where I am moving to.
WTF? Scott Hansen died? And RedZone is going away??I've been contemplating returning to DTV and this might just do it, just before the NFL season starts.
I'm pretty sure he wont have it cause he's moving.
yes, i'm moving and can't see Scotty anymore. he's alive, just not to me anymore.
Yes -- it's VOIP. There are two price levels, I think -- around $35/month for unlimited calls anywhere in the continental US and Canada (not sure about Alaska or Hawaii), or around $25/month for 250 minutes worth of calls to the same geographic footprint.To set it up, they run a phone line from your 2Wire gateway into a wall phone jack. That lights up all the phone jacks in your house.You get caller ID on the TVs, voicemail, and a lot of VOIP call forwarding features, too.
phone is nice. one of the best features is that you can get voice mail on the internets plus you can block numbers, or send some numbers straight to VM.
How old is your DVR? I was using the one they gave me in July of 2007 when I first signed up - called a couple months ago and asked about it and they sent a guy out the next day who replaced it with a newer one that has much more storage space.
They are usually quick to send someone out.
