February 2010
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Hello U-verse
We have now had U-verse for about six weeks. For the most part, I will say that we like the U-verse TV experience, but there are some pros and cons.
Background
The most obvious difference between U-verse and any type of cable set-top box (STB) setup is that U-verse is IPTV (Internet Protocol Television). A quick, over-simplified description is something like this:
With cable, all the channels...
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FreedomVerse
Well… I didn’t follow up my previous post as quickly as I promised, but I can blame that on U-verse itself. One component of U-verse is the Residential Gateway device, which serves as a DSL modem, router, etc. With previous routers, it was easy to map internal IP addresses to external ports, but not so on the RG. As a consequence, FreedomMind has been down since the U-verse...