Thread: AT&T Re-adds Slingbox Ban on 3G Network

Welp the IDIOTS at AT&T are at it again...


Electronista | AT&T re-inserts Slingbox 3G terms

That is why in 2010 ATT will not get Apple next device and may lose the IPHONE Apple is getting tired of ATT act.

That does not surprise me. Not one bit.

Hint Hint E* own sling box

Engadget Mobile has a different take on things.


AT&T's "new" video streaming terms are a non-issue

There's an awful lot of hubbub going around today about "new" terms in AT&T's wireless contract agreement that seemingly forbid streaming video from your television to your PC or your phone -- in other words, using a Slingbox -- which would seem to be a rewrite of language added and pulled a few weeks ago. Here's the problem: the terms aren't new, and they don't forbid video streaming. One of our editors has a month-old hard copy of AT&T's terms that were mailed to him after agreeing to a new contract, and they're exactly the same -- word for word.

Furthermore, the language in question is this: "This means, by way of example only, that checking email, surfing the Internet, downloading legally acquired songs, and/or visiting corporate intranets is permitted, but downloading movies using P2P file sharing services, redirecting television signals for viewing on Personal Computers..." but the problem is that the examples given here are referring to earlier language. In that language, we see that AT&T is more concerned about "server devices or host computer applications" -- that's subsection (i), if you're interested. In other words, AT&T's trying to stop you from uploading a television stream using its connection, not downloading -- and frankly, that sounds like the most painful operation ever conceived by man anyway, so we don't think we're going to get too many violators here.

In other words, rest easy; we still don't know whether the now-overdue SlingPlayer for iPhone will ultimately be approved, but if it's not, it shouldn't be because of this.

AT&T doesn't surprise me. Not like you could do anything with their broadband network anyways. A friend just signed up with their 3G service to use on his PC at home. What a joke...slow...kept dropping connection...etc. And this was with -80 dbm signal, so that wasn't the issue. Too bad he can't get Verizon or Sprint at his house. I know those two work just fine.

digiblur-

I had a minor problem with my Verizon EVDO Rev A card too dropping connection. Seems it would work great until I used it here at the house. Wasn't signal either. The problem turned out to be that my wifi was also active for home network and it would conflict with the Verizon card some how. If I had the wifi active, even though that network was not connected to a cable modem, just wifi LAN, the Verizon card would lose connection in about 20 seconds. Very annoying! Disconnect the wifi transceiver and the EVDO card would stay active all day and night and speed was like greased lightening. Go figure. I don't know why that is. The two cards, Verizon and wifi are separate cards plugged into the mother board. They even use separate antennas. Maybe I would understand if the wifi also had internet gateway but I shut that off to see if that was the problem. It wasn't.
Anyway, see if your friend has a similar issue with the AT&T card and maybe an active wifi LAN card too.

Originally Posted by Don Landis

digiblur-

I had a minor problem with my Verizon EVDO Rev A card too dropping connection. Seems it would work great until I used it here at the house. Wasn't signal either. The problem turned out to be that my wifi was also active for home network and it would conflict with the Verizon card some how. If I had the wifi active, even though that network was not connected to a cable modem, just wifi LAN, the Verizon card would lose connection in about 20 seconds. Very annoying! Disconnect the wifi transceiver and the EVDO card would stay active all day and night and speed was like greased lightening. Go figure. I don't know why that is. The two cards, Verizon and wifi are separate cards plugged into the mother board. They even use separate antennas. Maybe I would understand if the wifi also had internet gateway but I shut that off to see if that was the problem. It wasn't.
Anyway, see if your friend has a similar issue with the AT&T card and maybe an active wifi LAN card too.

Nope. No wifi in his house at all...no routers...no wifi adapters. Not even a single cordless telephone. Last time I talked to him the AT&T adapter was back at the store and Wildblue was on their way. Apparently his neighbor came over and looked at it, then his neighbor showed him Wildblue and his mind was made up quickly. No DSL there, no WISPs, and the cable doesn't come down his road. They had a cable plant expansion estimate for the 8 or 9 houses down the road and it was like $9,000. Only cell provider there is AT&T, which you can see the tower blinking at night about mile away.

Originally Posted by digiblur

Too bad he can't get Verizon or Sprint at his house. I know those two work just fine.

It doesn't sound like Verizon and Sprint work any better in his case. It sounds like it has more to do with location than AT&T in general.