Giving up on AT&T U-verse

[ka9q]

I'm finally giving up on AT&T's U-verse service after four years of frustration.

Around October 1 AT&T pushed down a firmware update to my "residential gateway" (the AT&T-provided VDSL modem and router I must use) that supports IPv6. That would seem like a good thing, but it's not. IPv6 is disabled, I have no way to turn it on, AT&T's support

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[ka9q]

A followup: reading the U-verse forums I saw that higher speeds (45 Mb/s down, vs 24 Mb/s now) are now available through the use of "pair bonding", running VDSL2 over two telephone lines instead of one. This brings U-verse back into competition with TWC's DOCSIS3 service, on speed at least