Whats your opinion on it?
I'm thinking of switching to them from Brighthouse Networks digital cable. I'm not un-happy with my cable provider - I get great reception and fast internet, it just seems like U-Verse offers so much more, like online features, mobile watching, etc. just some perks that Brighthouse does not have.
I used to be a Uverse technician:
How well it works depends on several factors;
The F2 infrastructure, If the telephone wires in your neighborhood are faulty, there will be lots of "Line Errors" and your TVs will freeze up/pixelate frequently...if you live in a Fiber To the Premises neighborhood that is the best, only physical destruction of the Fiberoptic link will affect the link.
In the residence itself, are you going to link the Gateway to the TV set boxes with Ethernet?..Using Ethernet is the best way to link the system together in the house,...if you use coaxial cables the tech will have to change the fittings on the coaxial cable system lashing it all together, and he will have to change out the splitters, and the wall plates. If the Uverse tech doesn't do this, eventually the digital signals will reflect off the old fittings, and splitters and make you TVs freeze/pixelate.
If you want Uverse voice for your home phone, that is CVOIP. If the electricity goes out to your system, you home phone will stop working. They will install a UPS that will keep your phone working for 4 hours during a power outage,...after which the phone is dead until the lights go on again.
If you want your phone to work the old fashioned way, with the phone company standards of reliability, you have to order POTS when you put in your Uverse order...Don't say "landline"...Say POTS which stands for Plain Old Telephone Service.
If your DVR goes bad, and they change out the box, you will lose all your recordings.
Remember, the Uverse goes into the residence on the Telephone wire,...not the cable TV drop...it helps sometimes if the cable TV drop and the telephone drop are close to each other...The tech is going to have to be able to get to the wall fittings and the cable TV splitters and such in the attic, have the way cleared for them...Have the furniture pulled away from the wall fittings at least three feet.
