For several years now I have been aggressively pursued by AT&T’s U-Verse to dump Cablevision. After numerous evaluations I just could not make the numbers work to make the switch.
Then a stormy gal named Sandy gave me the reason.
First, I noticed all those orange generators running at various telephone poles around town. Turned out the generators were powering U-Verse to keep its TV, internet and phone service online in the aftermath of the storm. AT&T trucks were everywhere filling up the tanks of those generators. i did not see a single Cablevision truck.
One catch: You had to have power – which I had by virtue of a generator acquired after Irene – in order to get the continuous U-Verse service. What I really missed during the storm was my internet service. Camping out at Starbucks in order to work was not optimal.
Then the power came back on Thursday night … but still no Cablevision and no internet.
AT&T U-Verse, here I come!
We have AT&T phone service and get internet from a DSL line (no cable). We also get TV from a traditional antenna. Our power was out from Monday through Thursday but our “land-line” phone never went out. We also have a small 300 watt inverter that runs off a car battery, and for several days we used that power source to recharge our cell phones and laptops. We also discovered that by plugging our DSL modem and router into the inverter we could access the internet. Made for lots of wires into and out of the garage but allowed us access to email. We even ran the TV off the inverter one evening and and got to watch the evening news. Only did it for a short while because did not want to end up with a dead car battery. Cast one vote for old tech.
I have had AT&T Uverse for a few years. I was amazed to have power and all my AT&T services on Tuesday after Sandy rolled through but then on Tuesday afternoon I lost AT&T (TV, Internet and phone)but not my power. AT&T initially told me I needed a new residential gateway, shipped that, installed but no service, they then told me that there was an outage in the area ! Their recorded message said that any outage would be resolved within 3 hours but 4 days later I still have no service from AT&T….