Uverse and Directv installation preplanning

My U-Verse modem has two phone jacks built in. Perhaps you can tap your house into one of the jacks. Not 100% sure if that will work. I’m on Vonage. I have my Vonage box plugged directly into my house. This way every phone jack in my house has a dial tone.

 

I had them install the TV because it was the only way to get free installation (I think it also increased my mail in rebate amounts). The good thing about getting TV installed was that I was able to talk the installer into running Cat5 to the 3 rooms because I wasn't disconnecting the DirecTV.

As far as the phone line, they will back feed the phone cable coming out of the modem into your internal wiring. This should allow all of your phone jacks to continue to work.

 

They installed Cat5 because I was using the coax for D*. U-verse can run on either coax or cat5. If you read the uverse forums, most people would agree that cat5 is the better option (I don't know the specifics). Nevertheless, I now have cat5 in my rooms which is nice.

I didn't keep the tv because uverse can't match up with D*. Many people have stated the downfalls of uverse in other threads, so I won't list them all again. I kept the tv long enough to get the rebate cards. I think it was about 2 months. After I cancelled the TV, i just had to take their boxes back to a UPS store and they boxed and shipped them back to AT&T.

The internet and phone are great, it's just the the television works better for households with one or two persons max due to the lack of streams available.

 

U-verse uses HomePNA (over twisted pair or coax) to connect things. Where wire doesn't already exist, CAT5 is cheaper and easier to install than coax and offers the same throughput (HomePNA is rated to 320Mbps).

I suspect that you're thinking of FiOS that uses MoCA that is implemented exclusively on coax.

 

I have Uverse for phone and DSL. We had the phone connected through the jacks in the house, but with that, we lost caller ID. I bought a wireless phone system with 3 bases and connected it directly to the modem and all features of the phones work.

 

My install was back in Oct and NID to RG was wired, I really doubt there's a wireless NID to RG support. I'm <500ft from the VRAD. I had UVerse tv/internet/phone installed and canceled the TV part a few weeks ago to get the free install and $300 rebate. I only wanted voice and internet anyways.
Our install:
NID-->twisted pair-->cat5->RG

None of the other phone jacks work if you plug in a phone line. I'm not sure if that's what most installs do, but it is fine for us since both our fax machine and landline cordless phone base station hook up to the RG anyways.


Even if wireless NID to RG is available, I would opt for a wired install regardless. One less item to go haywire .