AT&T Uverse speed upgrades to 75mb in Charlotte (Raleigh: home, shop)

[Ex-LI]

Now available in parts of the service area

New high-speed Internet option takes fast-forward leap across U.S.

[tambrose3]

If Kansas City and Austin are any indication this should happen more often and for free as Google Fiber rolls out.

[WaldoKitty]

I'd be more interested if they were actually rolling out their gigafiber product instead of bonding together more pairs of copper wire to get more speed out of it.

[TJJT]

Originally Posted by WaldoKitty

I'd be more interested if they were actually rolling out their gigafiber product instead of bonding together more pairs of copper wire to get more speed out of it.

It's not copper.. It's fiber to the old POTS copper trunks. You'll probably not see full fiber for a long time unless you get a business line and pay for the line. Like they use to do with T lines and the old OC.

[WaldoKitty]

Originally Posted by TJJT

It's not copper.. It's fiber to the old POTS copper trunks. You'll probably not see full fiber for a long time unless you get a business line and pay for the line. Like they use to do with T lines and the old OC.

It's copper telephone wire from the home to AT&Ts VRAD. From there it can be fiber or anything else they want to use but that part isn't relevant. It's the copper pair(s) that is the limiting factor. The further away you are located from the VRAD, the less speed they can give you. It's not very far, maybe a couple of 1000 feet before it becomes unusable. This is why many areas in Mecklenburg still can't get Uverse and are stuck with DSL.

Now that DOCSIS 3.0 (cable) has made Uverse completely obsolete, AT&T has decided to do pair bonding to try and squeeze more speed out of it. Same issues. IMO, they made a bad choice years ago to use telephone wire to push high speed communications. It was never designed for it and in fact designed to filter out higher frequencies because it sounds bad when talking on the phone.

i.e Uverse is a square peg being pushed into a round hole.

AT&T is rolling out gigafiber in Winston Salem & Raleigh. https://www.att.com/shop/u-verse/gigapower.html