[SGVLUG] ATT DSL Gateway choices, which gateway do you like?

[Doug]

Ugh story of my life...I USED to have under 10ms ping to my favorite counter strike server, att came out and made "repairs" and now I'm lucky if I get 50, it's a great quantitative measurement of how much they suck lol. Not to mention that their static ip service comes with a router THAT WON'T ROUTE IP ADDRESSES. I'm going to be switching isps, my deepest sympathies that you can't :(

Matthew Campbell <dvdmatt at gmail.com> wrote:

>I have uVerse and POTS.  They never asked me to drop one for the other.
>
>I had a 6Mbit connection for years, then AT&T 'upgraded' wiring in our
>neighborhood and my rate dropped to 2.  I called, I complained, I ranted
>and raved and they insisted that I had never had better than 2 and that I
>should go away.  I ended up having to cut the wire to my house and hook the
>modem up outside to show them the poor rate.  They came out and fixed it,
>back to 6Mb/s finally!  Four weeks later it dropped back to 2.  I ranted
>and raved and they eventually fixed it.  Four months later it dropped
>again.  This time they fixed it in 48 hours.  All in all, just counting the
>hours I have logged I have spent 92 unpaid hours on the phone with AT&T
>sorting out their incorrect billing or crappy service over the last 2 years.
>
>They are the worst company I have ever had the misfortune to deal with.
>
>And they have the government backed monopoly in my neighborhood, no way to
>change to anything else.
>
>Matt
>
>P.S.  In their favor their billing was never off more than $500 and they
>didn't cut my service more than twice due to their own internal billing
>mistakes.
>
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>*Matthew Campbell*
>Storage Solution Consultant
>Storage Design and Engineering
>
>*Kaiser Permanente*
>IMG-Systems Integration
>99 S. Oakland
>Pasadena, CA 91101
>
>626-564-7228 (office)
>8-338-7228 (tie-line)
>818-314-9897 (mobile phone)
>Green Center 3-North, 031W29
>---------
>*kp.org/thrive*
>
>
>
>On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 5:43 PM, Scott Packard <spackard at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> > Just make sure you still have a regular copper drop in the event of an
>> emergency. Sure, the VoIP gateway has a hefty battery backup, but I still
>> prefer having an old fashioned phone line just in case (911 doesn't require
>> a phone service account with telco, just a working jack with dial tone).
>>
>> You can't.  If you sign up for Uverse they force you off of POTS.
>> I've been there, tried that.  Fought that.  Wrote letters.
>>
>> Regards, Scott
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 5:28 PM, Dan Buthusiem <dan.buthusiem at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Just make sure you still have a regular copper drop in the event of an
>>> emergency. Sure, the VoIP gateway has a hefty battery backup, but I still
>>> prefer having an old fashioned phone line just in case (911 doesn't require
>>> a phone service account with telco, just a working jack with dial tone).
>>
>>
>>