Does At@t Uverse rewire the house?

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I'm reading that they drill holes in the wall and rewire the house. How big of holes do these guy drill? Trying to clean up the place so they have room for installation I hope they don't have to come back more then once.

I currently have 156K and will take anything over subed to 6MBS but I really doubt we will get that speed from what I'm reading.

Neighboring towns have something called charter which has 50MBS but I'll take anything.
 
Thats a good question. because i've got uverse 12mbps at the moment.and they're coming saturday to upgrade to 45mbps.right now it's setup through powerline networking and i get full 12Mbps at my pc.but would like an actual line run to my pc this time around.
 
The technicians usually do a piss-poor job wiring. They'll drill a 1/2 inch hole and use grommets. You'd be better off wiring it yourself (or hire wiring installation specialists) before they install.
 
Depends on the tech and what type of uverse you are getting as there are 3 kinds.

Around here they (almost) always run a CAT5 home run from the demarc to the gateway, ethernet to the DVR and then 2 WIFI stb's. After the first 3 TV's it just depends on what is in the house.

Typical hole size is 3/8" unless the cx asks for 1/4" where there is only 1 CAT5 passing though the hole. 3/8" can fit 2 CAT5 or 1 Coax and 1(or 2) CAT5.

Most tech's around here try not to wrap a house because it doesn't last, and the basement is usually easier to run wires though if it is open anyways. Even partially finished basements are usually pretty easy to run wires through.
 
Update: Well they came and upgraded it to 45mbps and i get that on my laptop but not my desktop in my room.using the pluglinks.and i also had an old phone jack next to it and he converted it in to a cat 5 but i only get 9mbps there and 13 on the pluglinks.as far as the cat 5 goes he said it might be old lines.any ideas folks.:confused:
 
I would do my own wiring before letting an ISP do it or at least drill any holes needed and make sure wire can easily be fished so that it can be done right. Typically what ISPs do is surface mount work and you'll probably have wires running along baseboards etc...

They're there to get the service to your demark and make sure it works, anything else is above and beyond and technically your responsibility.
 
Red Squirrel said:
I would do my own wiring before letting an ISP do it or at least drill any holes needed and make sure wire can easily be fished so that it can be done right. Typically what ISPs do is surface mount work and you'll probably have wires running along baseboards etc...

They're there to get the service to your demark and make sure it works, anything else is above and beyond and technically your responsibility.
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I'd take baseboard runs over the exterior crap that TWC does. They ran bundles of 4 - 7 cables around the outside of the house, and then just drilled holes through the siding and into the room where the wall plate was going.
 
wizdum said:
I'd take baseboard runs over the exterior crap that TWC does. They ran bundles of 4 - 7 cables around the outside of the house, and then just drilled holes through the siding and into the room where the wall plate was going.
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Wow that is brutal! Not to mention needless protrusions through the house and vapor barrier, and I would not trust them to ensure they seal up their holes properly either.
 
That's the norm for quite a few places - most DirectTV/Dish install I've seen is done that way.

Last company I worked for on our FTTH installs we did we drill a 1" hole and then install an LB + conduit to the ONT housing to run power + 5 cat5e's in. Current company we drill a 3/4" hole upward through the sill plate and feed power + 3 cat6 runs in.
 
Red Squirrel said:
Wow that is brutal! Not to mention needless protrusions through the house and vapor barrier, and I would not trust them to ensure they seal up their holes properly either.
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Out of 5 or so residential installs (Failpoint, TWC, DirectTv, Dish, etc), i've only had one good one. The third time we had Dish install a system for us they had a local contractor(not a Dish contractor, someone that did installs for multiple providers) do it. They actually took the time to hide the exterior wires under the siding, properly secured it so it did not sag at all, and waterproofed all the connections.
 
Letting a residential telecom installer wire up your house is a worse idea than letting a chimp in a shock collar perform brain surgery.

Don't even let them in your house.

Unless of course you like having bare holes in your walls with 2 feet of terminated wire coming out, and wires running along the wall from room to room. It's as if the installers had never heard of a basement or a wall jack.
 
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Adding on to the previous responses, I would not let a technician from an ISP wire my home. No offense to these installers, but from what I've seen, their work lacks respect and intelligence.
 
Yes they will, do not let them, DIY and have them hook into your work. They ran the fiber to my house, then snaked COAX at 90deg bends all over then drilled holes into my wall. They had to come back and redo all of it later that winter when the COAX failed in the cold due to tight bends. I had them run Cat5e through my garage, and out to the dmark. Had to supervise this.
 
I got UVerse years ago. They ran coax into the attic and through a couple of my rooms. I had various troubles throughout the years, not very often but often enough I almost canceled and called Dish back out.

One guy came out, went into the attic and said "i'm going to be here a while". He ripped out all that coax and replaced it with Cat5. Since then, I have had zero issues. '

After he left, i went up and clean his work up. I appreciated his efforts but he didn't give 100%. The outside wire coming into the attic was terminated into an RJ45. He then used a 100 foot cable with a double female connector to do the DVR run. There was plenty of wire left from his outside run so i re-terminated it into a wall jack and put a face plate on it. I also cleaned up the wiring a bit so it wasn't strung out all over the attic.

Those guys will do the bare minimum to make your product work, so keep that in mind.
 
OK just got off the phone with the guy that installed it.said he was gonna bring a usb wireless.lol when he does come tomorrow im gonna show him that i need cat 5 not wireless for desktop.and anyways i've a ps3 and xbone 1 in the same room.i just want a cat 5e line run so i can hook it up to my litlle 8 port switch dang it:mad:
 
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