Sylver Dragon's Journal: Layfette, we are here!

I'm not sure if someone from AT&T is readin my Journal, or if the AT&T rep Kim went yet another mile for us; but, on Friday, our services jumped to the correct settings. We now have HBO as planned and are at the Elite internet level as planned. So far, we're happy. We now have a DVR in the living room and bed room (big plus). While it would have been nice for the guide to self-limit to only the channels we have a subscription to, I understand why they don't. However, the box provides the ability to go in and manually trim the guide list to only what I want to see. So, all of the non-subscription channels are now gone, as are all of the religious, shopping and non-English channels, at least on one box. I haven't done the other yet, and I'm hoping to find a way to just transfer the settings, but I'll be ok if I can't.

The Internet connection itself seems to be stable, and the wireless router which is provided with the service doesn't seem half bad, so we've gone to just using it and not having the extra DLink router on the network.

Picture quality has been good, and the On Demand service has been good (at least for the HBO/Showtime stuff, haven't tried paying for anything yet). The DVR boxes are nice and responsive, though I'm still getting used to the remote control layout.

So far, the only complaints we would level against the AT&T setup is that the DVR boxes don't have a clock on them and that little green LED on the front of the box is damn bright at night in the bed room. Though we can easily work around both problems. Put a clock where we can see it a for the first and use a piece of opaque tape for the other.