[TriLUG] U-Verse for us

James Jones jc.jones at tuftux.com
Fri Nov 1 16:04:41 EDT 2013


Kevin

Uverse that I have uses a "Gateway". It doesn't seem to worry about extra
routers attached to it. ( no bridging by me ).

Almost sounds like your Uverse was the old dsl modems instead of a gateway
box.

My gateway is a 2wire unit .

jcj


On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 3:54 PM, Kevin Otte <nivex at nivex.net> wrote:

> My best friend up in Ohio has UVerse and we set him up with an HE 6in4
> tunnel. One day he had to bring the power down at his house to work on
> the lines. When everything came back up, the 6in4 tunnel didn't work
> anymore. They had pushed a firmware update out that nerfed proto 41
> traffic. AT&T support was completely and utterly useless in trying to
> ascertain what had happened, even going so far as to say he would have
> to pay for a minimum of one year of per-incident support before they
> would even talk to him about this obvious regression. His only option
> was to upgrade to a higher tier service which got him a different model
> modem that doesn't have this problem.
>
> There is another fellow in the #ipv6 channel in a similar boat where the
> higher tier option isn't available at all, so he's up (ahem)-creek
> without a paddle.
>
> Additional fun is their modems don't do a true bridge mode. You can do a
> DMZ-ish sort of thing where all external traffic is redirected to an
> internal IP, but it's clunky.
>
> So basically, UVerse is great if all you want to do is consume the
> interwebz. If you want real Internet, be ready to scream or walk.
>
> -- Kevin
>
> On 11/01/2013 11:28 AM, Brian McCullough wrote:
> > Folks,
> >
> > My AT&T store has been trying to pursuade me to change from my old DSL
> > and POTS line, to U-Verse for Internet and Phone, for "less."
> >
> > Well, it is less for the first year, but they forgot to include the
> > static IP address that I currently have, and want to charge my $15 per
> > month for that, so that will make it much more than I am currently
> > paying, after the year.
> >
> > In any case, the question has to do with other people's experiences with
> > this service, particularly for a Linux user with servers running on the
> > DSL line, and your own suggestions on this subject.
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Brian
> >
> >
>
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