The Big Day event, switching to U-verse.

[Buggyman]

Well, it's 8:05 am, the appointment was made to be here from 8 to 10 am time line.
I was told they would call before coming, I've not recieved the call.
But I'm a realistic.. Those instructions are best case senario.
But talking to my neighbors who got the U-Verse, the main problem was the Clock arrangement.
Some were on time, but there over 6 hours.
Some where there late, but only a few hours.
I don't know if they got the call.
I'm mostly nervouse about the phone end. the rest will fall in place soon enough.
Good thing is.. It's now approaching 8:1o am and I still have the internet

More as the day progresses

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[Buggyman]

Well, we're obviously got off to a good start.
No phone call yet....
No truck yet.....

At least the DW will be happy as the house has been cleaned up before they got here

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[Buggyman]

Got the call just now. 8:35 am
Josh (?) will be here in 20 minutes.
The call was courtious and professonal.

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[chpalmer]

Watching in anticipation!! 

[Buggyman]

Well.... we's on u-verse now and my day was long, I took notes all day and it was facinating what they did.
Right now everything is in a default mode since they set it up.
That will change over the next few days.
But we have tv, IP phone and 1.5 mbps internet (which the DW says she can't tell a different).

More after whie
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[Buggyman]

Well, got our secondary e-mails up and running (oh boy was that fun)
Testing the speed factor showed no different than the comcast high speed prrformance.
The TV did show a couple video blinks last night, not sure what cause it because nothing else was running on the U-verse.
I recorded my first Movie during the night on the DVR  and it's set up to record my DW's  Y&R shows daily. Since that show is repeated daily on the soap channel you have to program the dvr to only record one time slot or it will record the show every time it comes on no matter what channel it's showing.

There are problems in the Outlook 2003 about the sed/recieve function, but going the one account at a time works fine.

I'll do a brief post on some notables on the installation later on, but it was neat seeing advance technology bring used,


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[chpalmer]

Hows the honeymoon?   

[Buggyman]

Hows the honeymoon?   

With Duh Wife or The U-Verse 

Kidding, Lovely as you learn more and more and get used to the different between U-Verse and Comcast. like the new channel line up and the on demand and so forth.
My only disappointment is that they only allow one "Favorites" list whereas with Comcast you could build them all day like Movies or Buggy's and so forth.
But that's the only thing I don't like, Expecially when you have almost two hundred channels to chose from 

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[Buggyman]

OK.. I'm going to show some pictures to show how they used the comcast cables lines for the u-verse.
I'm going (I hope) to do three sections, The NID, The attic and then the front office where the gateway router is. 

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[Buggyman]

First the nid box the installed. I took three pictures in sections of Top, middle and the bottom.
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[Buggyman]

Then we go into the attice where I learned and now understand how they did it.
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[Buggyman]

Now we go into the front office of the house, The tag on that one line says "Data"
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[Buggyman]

If you couldn't tell, that first attic picture was where he deadended the comcast cable from the outside box to the splitter.
The second attic picture with the splitter has the top center (black) cable as the data feeder from the front office gateway router to feed all the TV lines (4) in the house.

I'm going to assume (since I'm color blind and I can't see behind the Phone jacks) the servive works this way.
From the CO to the NID is phone cable
From the NID to the front office is cat-5 which he used one pair
I think he use one color pair of the cat-5 for data feed going to the front office as you see the data cable plugged in the top jack.
Then he used a second color pair for in house phone lines
The bottom jack feeds (I assume) the Phone jacks inside the house. so when he checked each phone jack he probally use a different colored pair from the data line.

So.. how did I do?

[dannjr]

so far looks normal... 

[Buggyman]

so far looks normal... 

Well it makes sense to me know, You recall I said by not checking the attic I may have missed how it was set up.
Which buh duh way, He plugged these little tabs with numbers into all the comcast lines. I assume that was his way of marking the lines and where they went.

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