AT&T U-verse ping/latency

[Gabe3]

I'm thinking about going from comcast cable to uverse since its a lot cheaper. I'm concerned about ping since I found a couple threads on the uverse forums with some complaints about high pings in gaming. I'd like to know how your experience has been with uverse and what kind of pings your getting. If you could post what state your in that'd be helpful too.

[Ridlas]

As bad as Comcast is, I recommend you stay with Comcast. Uverse is just plain awful and the speeds are horrible.

[McCordRm]

^^

What??? I'm loving my U-Verse speeds.

[DR3AMxCATCHER]

I was with Time Warner before Comcast bought them out here in Houston and loved them. Around 2008/2009, I switched to AT&T U-Verse and boy did we have issues with the TV'S and Internet. When one thing went down, it all went down. Speeds were very slow even with the 24MBPS.

I'm currently back with Comcast and had 1, 5 minute outage because of rain. 35 MBPS and 10-50 ping is perfect. AT&T was giving me about 80-200 during early morning hours. I would stick with Comcast, if you are not in a 2 year plan, I advised you to try to get into a non-contract as this is when they make up for their summer deals, we are actually in a cheaper plan with 2 cable boxes and faster internet with comcast than we had with U-Verse.

[+Chsoriano Subscriber²]

I agree with almost everyone here... the AT&T U-verse pings are high(er) than I would like or expect. I live in Houston, and my pings are always 35ms or higher. My brother, who lives in the same apartment complex, has Comcast and I have never seen his pings (to the same servers) higher than 10ms.

As the above poster stated, this is with the fastest U-Verse residential package. I'm considering switching to Comcast Internet, but I like the convenience of having all my bills (TV, Internet, Wireless) with the same provider... however I'm strongly considering getting Comcast for Internet. It's also worth mentioning that U-Verse TV is better than Comcast Xfinity in most regards, except for one of the most important: picture quality. The PQ of cable is better than U-Verse IPTV but the DVR, Guide, mobile apps, and web GUI for U-Verse are significantly better than Xfinity.

[Gabe3]

well uverse is getting hooked up in a week. hopefully the pings are not to bad. I pay $60 for comcast 12megs, the uverse is almost half the money for same speed. they are bringing a modem/router combo device. I want to use my existing linksys wrt54g router. can I avoid using the router part of their device and they can just feed internet into my router.

[arukun14]

We have U-Verse... TBH, my opinion on AT&T is somewhat mixed. Sometimes, the connection would be flawless; other times, it would be crap awful. And that's the highest tier too (Max Turbo).

[McCordRm]

well uverse is getting hooked up in a week. hopefully the pings are not to bad. I pay $60 for comcast 12megs, the uverse is almost half the money for same speed. they are bringing a modem/router combo device. I want to use my existing linksys wrt54g router. can I avoid using the router part of their device and they can just feed internet into my router.

You have to use their router... but nothing says you can't go from it to your own router.

Also, you can go into the settings and change things a bit. For example, I turned off it's wireless capabilities because

I absolutely hate using wireless. The numerical password will be located on the router, itself.

[Gabe3]

You have to use their router... but nothing says you can't go from it to your own router.

Also, you can go into the settings and change things a bit. For example, I turned off it's wireless capabilities because

I absolutely hate using wireless. The numerical password will be located on the router, itself.

Ok, would I just plug a ethernet into the broadband port on the uverse device and the other end into the lan port on my linksys router? do I need to change any settings on my router? thanks.

[Gabe3]

I got the uverse today, I changed my routers IP to 192.168.2.1 cause I wasn't getting internet from my router with the default 192.168.1.1. I disabled wireless on the uverse modem/router and a few other security features. anything else I should do?