We signed up for AT&T U-verse last week and they came Friday to install the boxes and the router. This is the over-the-line service they offer as opposed to the deal they have for the dish. I became more and more frustrated with Cox and since I already had my cellular and home phones through SBC/Cingular/ATT, I could bundle them all together and save quite a bit. So far so good.

The picture quality on my Visio LCD is excellent and while the speed of the internet connection (at the level we signed up for) was supposed to be a tick slower than Cox cable internet, it is actually a bit faster than I was getting. They had a deal if you signed up you got free installation for up to 3 tv's (usually $495-additional tv's were $5 each), computer modem or wifi unit, a free DVR and all 400 channels for 2 months. While it's nice having all of the movie channels, the Mrs. and I rarely have the time to watch the ones we rent so I can see us probably paring the selection down to the 200 channel level and dropping a few of the movie channels.

They estimated between 2 and 8 hours to run new wire from the street to the control box and from the control box through the house. They were done in about 3.5 hours. If anyone is tired of the cable company but was leary of going with a dish, has Cingular cell service and ATT for their home phone I'd recommend the U-Verse. There were AT&T trucks EVERYWHERE around the neighborhood last week hooking people up. So much for breaking up Ma Bell.

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