Posted on 07/25/2014 9:30:58 AM PDT by Dallas59
Ever since AT&T Inc. CEO Randall Stephenson revealed in March that his company would bring its ultra-high-speed broadband service to the Dallas area this summer, potential customers — and there appear to be many — have wanted more specifics.
What neighborhoods will get the service and exactly when?
Four months later, there are still few specifics. But AT&T did indicate Thursday which areas of the Dallas-Fort Worth region will receive its U-verse With GigaPower service later this summer.
The company said the initial launch will include parts of Highland Park and University Park, with upload and download speeds of up to 1 gigabit per second.
The service will also launch in parts of Dallas, Allen, Fairview, Irving, and McKinney at speeds up to 100 megabits per second, the company said. Customers will be able to upgrade to 1 gigabit by the end of 2014.
Parts of Fort Worth, Arlington, Euless, Granbury, North Richland Hills, Weatherford and Willow Park will also get the service this summer. Initial speeds will be up to 100 megabits with 1 gigabit available by the end of the year.
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Rich white areas. Surprised that west Plano isn’t on their list. Plano was GTE territory, but I think Allen was, as well.
We have FIOS here in Flower Mound, so I am wondering which one is better....I am looking hopefully to cut FIOS TV next year, and strictly go Internet so I wonder if AT&T would be better.
Your download speed is only as fast as the upload speed of the server the file you are downloading from. I have never seen a server/PC allow an upload speed greater the 2mb/sec.
I have Cox Cable. It offers 4 packages. I have the Preferred package which just upped their speed to 50Mpbs. (Premier 100 Mbps; Ultimate 150 Mbps.)
I stream Netflix and web videos via Plex. I am allocated 250gb of downloading per month. I seldom use half of that, even when I ‘marathon’ some TV series.
The price is in the $69/month range.
I have thought about going with their next lesser service, but it only has about 50gb/month download.
I do get 1.0 mb on Steam and few other servers. It’s still faster than the Elite service. I could watch a 720P video on Youtube without buffering. Netflix loads faster now. Only problem is they allow you 250 GB of data per billing cycle.
I’m in far north Plano (almost Frisco) and get Uverse.
All I know is that I pay a fortune for TV,phone and internet.I only watch about a dozen of the 9,000 channels I get,I don't make all that many calls on my home phone and my internet speeds are much faster than I need.
I think Plano is Verizon now and has FIOS.
The Raleigh, Durham, Cary area is supposed to be high on the list.
Laying the main fiber cable behind my house right now. The cable is about as big around as my arm.
I’ve got uVerse at 20 mbps and don’t have a need for more speed right now. Don’t stream video, etc. May change though.
Download Speed: 13026 kbps (1628.3 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 1074 kbps (134.3 KB/sec transfer rate)
With Carolina.rr.com Basic service on WiFi with the Laptop
You got Some BADA$$ Service there!!!
At Your speeds I’d be worried about knocking the end off the Computer slamming that much data into it;)
BFL
I have 100Mb service, but increasingly the bottle neck is becoming the ability of your end point service to deliver, Netflix for example.
Sure have come a long way from 1200 baud modems!
I'll take your word for it...I know basically nothing about computers or the internet.If my service is,in fact,exceptional it's pretty much going to waste as I said earlier.My contract's up for renewal in a few months and I'll probably downgrade at that time.I wish you could get a la carte channels because I watch so few *and* I hate paying for trash like MSLSD,Lifetime,The Pervert Channel and all those silly shopping channels.
I guess what I’m getting at is 100mbs is over kill and a waste of money.
faster that FiOS?
I have the 100mbs as well and the only thing that I get my money’s worth is watching online MLBTV. Crystal clear 1080p. Everything else is either choked or limited by the up speed restrictions.
Gigabit speeds and a 100GB monthly download limit
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