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Uverse service is not necessarily fiber service... It can be either FTTN (Fiber to the Node) or FTTP (Fiber to the Premesis.) Most areas in the United States are FTTN which is a fiber conntection to a VRAD (Video Ready Access Device) located somewhere within 3000 feet of your house. FTTP was 1st generation service which brought a fiber drop to your house but this was deemed overkill as most customers do not require those types of speeds.

In a FTTN setting, the distance of your residence to the VRAD determines which profile you receive (32mb, 25mb, or 19mb.) IMHO, a 19mb profile isn't worth having. The best you will be able to receive is 1 HD stream and 3 SD streams.

The inside and outside boxes actually indicate that you have an iNID (Intelligent Network Interface Device) which uses two conventional copper telephone pair to transmit and receive versus the standard one pair. Having said that, you are on a FTTN network and unfortunately don't have a fiber drop to your residence.

Yes but it is still label as Fiber.. So it is still fiber.. Also I have 3 HD steams and 2 SD streams at the same time.. So that part is wrong too.. Also I watch the person install the box and it was not a copper telephone wire but a fiber cable.. There was no copper but small white glass wires (fiber optic).. I know the difference between fiber optic cables and copper.. Also I live in a new area where they started adding it first.. So we have fiber cables in the ground...
 
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It installed fine on my intel iMac with 10.6. But on the 'ol faithful PowerBook G4 with 10.5, im repeatedly getting this :confused:

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slicecom said:
Why all the negative ratings for a itunes update :confused:

Because not all of us have unlimited bandwidth.

Must save bandwidth for downloading movies.
 
Whenever you have a problem with an update, the "people who know better" tell you that you should have backed everything up before updating. Yet there is no such warning with the updates.
You should have a backup already anyway always--nothing special about the update.

This is very easy to do if you hook up any sort of external storage with Time Machine.
 
It installed fine on my intel iMac with 10.6. But on the 'ol faithful PowerBook G4 with 10.5, im repeatedly getting this :confused:

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my roommate has a mac mini G4 w/10.5 and I do updates on it periodically, sometimes it just won't work, iTunes especially, gives me weird errors, sometimes if there are more than one upate, update items one at a time, restart the computer, doing iTunes last. OR if that doesn't' work, you may have to go to apple's website and download the update and install it manually instead of using the software update app.
 
well i just called again and referenced that article saying it says the 40gb cap and they said again no we are UNLIMITED.

you're full of _____ (insert fav word). You read the response you got, called a cable company (that takes 5 minutes of automated system to even begin to get anywhere) and posted back all in under 10 minutes?

If you even got a live person in 10 minutes from a cable company, I'll kiss your butt. And even then, they probably wouldn't have spoken a lick of english or understood you.
 
Found a bug in 10.2 which may not have been in 10.1.x. Changing the rating while editing multiple items doesn't work. Can anyone confirm whether this is fixed in 10.2.1?
 
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BackcountryBoy said:
It's great fun listening to all the complaints about internet speed. By the way... what in the world is a Mbps? Never heard of that before! :D

Here's what I got. If anyone wants to trade just give me a call... :p

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Mbps is Mega bits per second

Vs.

MBps which is Mega Bytes per second

Most everything today is using the bits per second term since it makes there service appear faster to the layman. If you want to see the real speed (As in your 100 MB Ethernet connection) then you must devide you Mbps number by 8 to get the real throughput as it's normally stated on just about all other hardware.

-LanPhantom
 
you're full of _____ (insert fav word). You read the response you got, called a cable company (that takes 5 minutes of automated system to even begin to get anywhere) and posted back all in under 10 minutes?

If you even got a live person in 10 minutes from a cable company, I'll kiss your butt. And even then, they probably wouldn't have spoken a lick of english or understood you.

did you even look at the times of the posts? your right it wasn't 10min it was 17min, start kissing because i did.
 
mine does not say that.

It is strange, as I installed on another computer and it doesn't say it either. The other computer is my iPhone/ iPad syncing machine. The one which displayed the image is an iOS virgin.

Beats me... .

Ciao. Joel.
 
Yes but it is still label as Fiber.. So it is still fiber.. Also I have 3 HD steams and 2 SD streams at the same time.. So that part is wrong too.. Also I watch the person install the box and it was not a copper telephone wire but a fiber cable.. There was no copper but small white glass wires (fiber optic).. I know the difference between fiber optic cables and copper.. Also I live in a new area where they started adding it first.. So we have fiber cables in the ground...

You misunderstood me... I said the distance you are from the VRAD determines the profile you are on... a 19mb profile can provide 1 HD stream and 3 SD streams. A 25mb profile is capable of 2 HD streams and 2 SD streams, and a 32mb profile can provide 3 HD streams and 1 SD stream... All fo these profiles are available via FTTN with copper backhaul from the VRAD. In no case does anyone get 5 streams off of a single account. The current hardware in the field is not capable of this.

I'm not going to argue with you but rest assured that the information I am providing you is correct. If you want to PM me your area, I will tell you exactly what is in the ground from your residence all the way to the VHO.
 
Funny, my download was about 75 MB. Not so long ago they were around 100 MB. Sounds like they're doing anti-bloat these days. ::grin::

This one also is good for both Leopard and Snow Leopard, last time I paid attention there were separate versions. Or it could just be my foggy memory, my only non-10.6 machine usually gets a semi-automatic Software Update update.

I grabbed this image, wonder what "Activation-only" means.

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Ciao. Joel.
If I'm not mistaken, that's what the mode that Macs in the Apple Stores run iTunes in, in order to prevent customers from syncing. You got that on your personal Mac?
 
I reported a bug with the iTunes store - where if you typed even 1 letter in the search box the whole application locks up for 5 seconds while it tried to find some results
 
After trying to install the 10.2 update unsuccessfully 3 times last week on my HP laptop (keeps freezing) running on Windows 7, I'm a bit hesitant trying to download 10.2.1. Can anyone advise why this is happening?

Never had any problems downloading it onto my dad's Macbook or my G5 tower. Maybe a deliberate ploy by Apple to make software updates for Windows as problematic as possible :D Doesn't seem to work as nice in Windows as opposed to OSX which is no surprise really.
 
Colour me unimpressed. Like many people I downloaded 10.2 only a few days ago. Saw that 10.2.1 was up so did the same. Followed the install to the letter after the reboot of my Win 7 machine tried to start ITunes and it is completely broken, won't even start, get error "iTunes cannot run because some of it's required files are missing . Please reinstall ITunes". So I try to download the 64 bit version from Apple and when I try to run it complains that I already have a newer version on my system.

Way to go Apple, completely screwed my iTunes install. Not worried about data loss as I backup 2-3 times a week but not sure how I can get this back up and running and 4.3 is due today.

Any advice would be appreciated.
 
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