So, I know that AT&T was planning to install fiber in my area after it has been dominated by Comcast for decades and AT&T only had 5 Megabit DSL, seems that happened sooner than expected as there was a rep at our door today asking if we wanted to schedule an installation.
I want to switch actually, but I want to know if anyone who uses or used them might have any opinions positive or negative about them and their other service. I tried to Google for these answers but wasn't able to find much, and half the articles were from nearly 20 years ago.
For starters we basically have the full package from Xfinity right now, Internet (800Mbit down, 100Mbit up... after finally being upgraded from the laughable 20Mbit up we had for years), Cable TV and a landline.
The rep said that they have all of that, for less (without it being a temporary introductory price) and better speeds, but with a few caveats for the TV. Namely that the TV boxes are not hard-wired like ours are which I prefer but would be WiFi boxes just simply connecting over the internet. Has anyone had issues with those causing congestion? I have my own router and prefer to go that route, and use the internet heavily for both streaming and gaming. Would having now multiple tv boxes using that WiFi cause any latency or congestion?
Also the rep said that unlike Xfinity, their landline service is an actual landline and not just VoIP. Is that true? I would far prefer that over VoIP, but few places offer that service anymore over it just being a VoIP service.
Has anyone ever had or is AT&T known to interfere with any sort of servers or service? I know that just about every ISP blocks port 25 but Xfinity has been in trouble in the past for trying to spy on encrypted traffic or block services like torrents. I am not planning to host an e-Mail server, but I do experiment with my systems a lot with remotely accessing them, using a VPN, temporarily hosting a file server to transfer files between them, and many other services, none permanent. Has anyone ever had any trouble doing anything like this over AT&T? Or knows if there is anything like this they actively block?
The rep also said they have something called ActiveArmor that is supposed to protect me or something, but I have seen others complain that it just causes issues. I know I can deactivate it, but does anyone have any opinions or personal experiences about this? Apparently it would be able to block fraud calls (which we get a lot of on our landlines) but it doesn't mention if this is just for their cellphone service or for landlines too. If it works for landlines, can I only enable it for that and disable it for my internet?
Anything else I should know about or expect that anyone is aware of from switching from Xfinity to AT&T Fiber?
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