So, my mom is attempting to have uverse/dsl installed at her house (5mbps). But I see a problem that will probably cause issue.. The lines running up the hill to her house from the nearest pedestal are the older type and to top it off, the poles are way to distant apart for the newer lines to be dropped.....
My question is.. What are the odds of them burying a line up the road for her so she could obtain service? In theory, they are supposed to come out tomorrow mid day. Is there a process to maybe have them either bury a line or at least let her qualify for fixed wireless if they can't/won't run the new lines to her house? She attempted the fixed wireless route first but they denied her due to qualifying for uverse internet (again, at 5mbps)
Thoughts?
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Unlikely install
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[VDSL] AT&T LTE Backup
We have a LTE backup for our VDSL service, acting our 3RD backup device,
We have the CDS-9070 which is really great but what sucks we can't even configure the dam boat anchor.
Does anyone know if it's possible to use another device like a Cradlepoint? Since we want to add Verizon as another backup, and I don't wanna spend more for another lte modem.
Any thoughts, if it's possible?
Thanks!
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Fiber location (and moving it later)
I am in the process of buying a house, which supposedly has AT&T fiber availability, but I don't believe it's been installed at that house yet. I have a little bit of a dilemma with regard to where I should have them bring it into the house, and I am wondering what you all recommend.
In the long run, I want my router, switches, etc. to be in the basement of the house. I will run cable from there to various points in the house for both wireless access points and hardwiring things. However, I probably will not have time to do this cabling project before we need to get internet at the house so we can work. My worry is that if I have them bring it into the basement, and I just temporarily use their router/wireless, I'm not going to have enough coverage in the house to be usable.
Is there any reasonable option for having them bring it into the house on the main floor, and then I later relocate it myself? If it was all cat cable, I would have no hesitation with this, but I assume they will be bringing actual fiber into the house, which I have no experience with and I don't know if I'd be able to move and re-terminate it myself. Would they come out later and re-locate it for me? I assume there would be a fee if they did that, and I'm ok with that, but I'm not sure if it's even something they do.
Other ideas (besides finding the time to do the cabling first. There's a tiny possibility I could pull that off, but I would like to have a plan assuming I can't.)
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UVerseTV Gone In 2022?
I saw this over at TheLayoff site.
https://www.thelayoff.com/t/11T8lZhZ
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Should I bother AT&T with this?
I’ve been gone from the Chicago place for about a week, and just happened to check in the modem to see if it’s had errors (a few devices went offline a few days ago for a bit while I was gone)
I’ve noticed my line is no longer balanced but is giving my full 100/20 when on Ethernet (100.10/21) and seems to be working fine currently, it’s been a while since I’ve seen an unbalanced pair-bonded line and just want an opinion
The line had similar stats/error logs (other than a re-train a week ago), and the 70/21 is about right for the WiFi from this 5268ac
So essentially before I waste my time, should I even bother?
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Privacy violation ??
https://bocanewsnow.com/2019/11/12/police-do-not-let-att-uverse-techs-in-your-home-unless-absolutely-needed/
[moderated: changed title (originally "Interesting")]
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[AT&T Fiber] 2nd Router
AT&T installed a combo router/gateway in my apartment and I'm currently using my own behind it. The problem I have with this setup is that I can't access the configuration page of the AT&T router when I'm connected to mine. So to fix it I'm connecting via wi-fi. What am I doing wrong or that I need to do in order to see the configuration page without the wi-fi? Thanks all.
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[AT&T Fiber] Upgraded to 1000
I went online today and upgraded my ATT Fiber service from 100 to 1000 on the ATT site. I just received a UPS tracking number from ATT and it appears that a 5268AC is being overnighted to me. I don't understand why, my BGW210 has been working fine. All I wanted to do was upgrade my speed. What should I do if the 5268 arrives tomorrow? I'm worried that this is the start of a billing fiasco.
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Hpna(uversetv) and moca on the same cable
The question has come up fairly frequently, "Can you put hpna (uverse tv) and moca on the same cable?"
The answer is yes. While this has been known and answered for some time I thought I would put together some information for anyone needing it in the future.
The best posts about the subject are in this thread https://www.dslreports.com/forum/r31968881-Can-MoCA-2-0-adapters-and-Uverse-coexist~start=30
As I have been recommending this but never actually tested it, I put my money where my mouth is, and put together a demonstration setup.
My setup has Deca, Trendnet HPNA, and goCoax MOCA 2.5 adapters all coexisting on the same cabling.
The cabling is pct triton rg6, pct trs fittings and a two way Antronix cable splitter. Its about thirty feet of wire from computer to rg.
The rg is an ATT BG210 on gig fiber. The line going to the rg is connected to the top of the splitter, one leg goes to the pc, the other leg went to my old sb8200 used as spectrum analyzer for this project.
The DECA's coax is connected to the tv out port on the Trendnet HPNA adapter, the hpna in port on the the adapter is connected to the tv out of the the goCoax adapter which then connects to the splitter. This is the same for both the computer and the rg.
While I have used the moca adaptors for a couple of months now, I have been using the TRENDnets in this configuration for about a week. The DECA's were thrown in for the fun of it today since I had them laying around.
[att=1]
[att=3]
This is a picture of the results from running my SB8200 as a spectrum analyzer on the second leg of this network.
I actually expected the to see a higher power level in the various in use bands, but I don't think the modem has a fast enough sampling rate to catch them.
Further the frequency with the highest power level you see there 960Mhz or so hitting at -50dbm, is not even associated with moca and was just noise.
[att=2]
Speedtest.net results for the goCoax MOCA 2.5 adapter
https://www.speedtest.net/my-result/d/f6509c7d-643e-4125-a5b4-ce47ef6a2c69
Speedtest.net results for the TRENDnet HPNA adapter:
https://www.speedtest.net/my-result/d/62ebf5c1-25e0-44ff-92b7-055a63e177f2
The upstream appears to have some buffering before it hit the test server since
that speed is clearly too high for the fast Ethernet port in the TRENDnet.
Speedtest.net results for the DECA:
https://www.speedtest.net/my-result/d/88d0272e-a7a7-45bd-88b2-52878b665104
Just for comparison speedtest.net results for cat6 Ethernet:
https://www.speedtest.net/my-result/d/a8070794-6469-4f06-b3cf-61158003939b
I was actually surprised that both the Trendnet and the DECA beat the much nicer newer goCoax on latency
and I would be tempted to recommend the TRENDnet to gamers over the other two,
but you really cant beat the price for DECA. If you need bandwidth though its goCoax all the way.
I hope this demonstration helps, and answers definitively that yes HPNA and MOCA can coexist.
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Consistent ping spikes every 5 mins for 5 seconds?
Hey all. I have Fiber 1000 in the Atlanta area. I recently upgraded from our Linksys Velop setup to Ubiquiti gear (USG3p, UniFi APs, PoE Switch) and followed the instructions here (https://medium.com/@mrtcve/at-t-gigabit-fiber-modem-bypass-using-unifi-usg-updated-c628f7f458cf) to bypass the AT&T RG. Aside from the RG's DMZ+ / IP Passthrough performance being shitty, I was hoping bypassing it would stop this issue. No dice.
Almost exactly every 5 minutes, for about 5 seconds each time, my ping (to various sites - I've tried google and the Google and Cloudflare DNS servers) will spike from 2-4ms to 200+. It's not the end of the world, but it causes trouble with anything I'm trying to do in real time (video conferences, gaming) and occasionally breaks streaming services (mostly YouTubeTV because of the low maximum buffer health).
I'm at a loss for how this might be happening or what could fix it. The RG is now only sending authentication information and the only configuration I've done on it is to disable its wireless networks, and the issue occurred with both the Velop and the new USG + UniFi APs. The only other hardware on the property that's the same is the ONT... so at this point, it has to be an issue on AT&T's side, right? I wouldn't even know the right words to say to get to someone on the phone who could help, not to mention I'm sure they wouldn't want to help considering my network setup. Has anyone else experienced this sort of behavior?
I've attached a screenshot of the ping running for quite a while demonstrating the issue. Each horizontal bar is roughly one minute, so this is 35 minutes of this behavior.
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[AT&T Fiber] Incredibly slow speeds
I have Gigabit fiber service. After a 10 mb/sec stream buffered endlessly, I ran speed tests to about 30 servers and tracroutes to about 15. Other than the AT&T server in my town, the best downstream results were under 500 down and all that router through Dallas were under 60 mb/sec - one as low as 38. I tested with a Cyberpower PC via Ethernet directly to the modem. I confirmed these results with an Alienware laptop, also via Ethernet directly to the modem and several wifi devices (same basic speeds as Ethernet site by site). These problems occur repeatedly in peak hours.
AT&T support told me because they had a perfect connection from my home to their local DSLAM, that they would not even look into it. When I asked what I should do, they said "check my equipment". When I reiterated that I had confirmed the problem with multiple high end pieces of equipment, they said, "check my equipment". The direct support link said "connection refused. I'm in Austin TX. Does anyone have a contact at AT&T that might help me?
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[AT&T Fiber] Slow speeds and high ping from 7pm to 11pm CST for past week
Had service for around a year and half now and have never had speed or ping issues that I have noticed. Starting in the last week or I started noticing ping issues in games and decided to run speed tests and got the following results. When
this issue starts happening I can't watch a single twitch stream without constant buffering. Netflix is just as bad...
Attached is a picture of SpeedTest.net results over the coarse of the day to the same server.
Here is a link to a PingPlotter that shows the ping issues starting at around 7:20pm today. https://ibb.co/yPw3jsX
That is on Fiber 1000 btw. The issue starts at 7-8pm everyday and is always gone by 11pm. Live chat is useless, they just tell you to reset/restart gateway which has zero effect. Looking for some help to get this issue resolved asap.
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Latest atnt u-verse mobile
What is the latest U-verse modem available. We have the arris bfw210-700. And we upgraded service to 25 Mb per second. They say that we need a new modem. Just was not sure if we have latest modem or not.
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SFTP and rsync failures with Pace 5268AC DMZ+ 11.4.1.532484-att
This is a very recent problem, it started in the last few weeks. I believe it is related to firmware 11.4.1.532484-att that I got upgraded to.
I have a 5268AC modem that I have been running in DMZPlus mode for well over a year. It connects to my router running pfsense and then to the rest of my network.
I have backup jobs that connect from my home machines to a server on the internet and transfer files - either via sftp, rsync, or borgbackup.
Normal internet is working fine - I can run iperf3 to my VPS and speeds are great. I can run ssh shell connections just fine. Speedtest runs fine. I can open a VPN tunnel to my VPS and everything works great.
But when I use something as simple as SFTP to my VPS, the transfer starts and then when it hits a size of 32K it stalls and doesn't go any further. Same thing happens with rsync.
I did a wireshark capture. Looks like a normal SSH session for a while, you can see the file transfer start. Once it begins, after 32K of traffic or so, I get a stream of this:
1. client->server size 1454 client sends encrypted packet (last good packet)
2. server->client size 134 server: TCP spurious transmission
3. client->server size 78 TCP dup ack
4. client->server size 1454 TCP retransmission
And then repeats 2,3,4 over and over.
If I plug a laptop into another port on the 5268AC (i.e. a non-DMZ) everything works great. It is just the DMZ port.
I'm at a loss here, but I can't help but wonder if this is a similar issue to others having voice call issues with DMZ plus enabled.
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New BGW210-700 Double Nat
Has anyone came up with method to prevent double nat when using a second router behind the gateway?
Removing the gateway is not a option for me.
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[AT&T Fiber] VPN question
Can you use VPN with AT&T Fiber?
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[AT&T Fiber] Upgraded from 300MB to 1GB, drastically diff speed test results
I upgraded on Saturday and it's seeming a bit erratic.
That night I test about 920/920 up/down after a reboot.
I was just trying some downloads now and was still capping off at about 35MBps, preupgrade speeds.
I check speedtest.net, 700 down, 938 up. Dslreports speedtest is 285 down, 944 up, and fast.com 500 down, 580 up.
Should me Pace modem be enough?
I just canceled TV as well so I can at least now try and do the dummy switch swap with an Asus AC66u with Merlin firmware, if that should be better.
Thoughts?
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Upgrading to AT&T 25 mbps
The tech is coming tomorrow to upgrade us to the fastest package which is 25 mpbs Down but they said we will need a new modem we have the bgw210-700 is that the latest model. If not what modem would we get.
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ATT TrueBridge Mode for for Ubiquity Security Gateway (USG)
So, I have taken the plunge and replaced my PFSense firewall with a Ubiquity USG. This is an affordable device, around $110 on Amazon, and is the perfect companion to Ubiquiti Unifi wireless access points and its controller if you happen to use any. For the same reason as "rockstar" did with his PFSense thread, I decided to open up a separate topic for those searching for information, without having to go through the "True Bypass" monster thread.
During my research before purchasing, I came across this gem:
https://blog.taylorsmith.xyz/att-uverse-modem-bypass-unifi-usg/
It explains in clear steps what you have to do. The most difficult portion is the trimming of the .json file somewhere halfway. I spent a good 20 minutes on it, and the examples that were given on the site above were of good help.
Remember: when you start following the guide above, you will eventually disconnect from the internet, so make sure you have all the sites open you want open, and have all the files you need before proceeding. Make sure you read every step, don't skip any.
PROS:
Latency decrease. As if the gigapower itself wasn't good enough, a ping to 8.8.8.8 has changed from 3-4ms to a solid 2ms. If you are further away from bigger datacenters, the latency decrease can actually be noticeable.
Speed: Speedtests are the same, really.... 930/930 to 940/940, the maximum you can push through gigabit. No change.
DPI: This is with deep packet inspection enabled on the USG, so you can really keep check to see where your data is going. This is actually a cool feature, it shows you exactly how much hundreds of applications take in data, ranging from Facebook to P2P/Torrent to Netflix to OneDrive to Speedtest.net to Gmail to online games, you name it, and all displayed in a userfriendly and accessible way.
CONS:
No decent IPv6 support yet. Ubiquiti is working on it, and current firmware has "alpha" support for it, but it will be coming soon. If you need IPv6 NOW, don't use this.... if you can wait a few months till Ubiquiti really has their IPv6 ironed out, we may be able to get it to work in a similar fashion. It may actually work now, I just haven't gotten around to really testing it yet.
NEUTRAL:
I have static IP's. I have them mostly "just because", for the geekness of it, to run servers etc.... but the reality is I managed to consolidate all those back to the one DHCP IP for now (which never changes anyways), so I can take my sweet time figuring out how to get them to work. I'm sure its not that hard, just will take some digging.
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Pace 5268AC - why can't I whitelist the 5 GHz radio?
In the advanced wifi options, MAC filtering seems to only apply to the 2.5 GHz radio. Why is that?
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