Uturnaroun wrote:
Hey everyone. Remember me? I've been away for an exceptionally long time and though that I should finally come back. It looks like a lot has changed here. How's everyone doing?
Hi UT, good to see you back! 
Hey UT! How are YOU doing? Yep, most of us are still hanging on here with a few exceptions. Glad to see you back. Are you going to stick around for a while?
Pets:
Every so often Alfie pulls some little stunt which just sets us to giggling. I should mention that he has a little toy box in the hallway which is usually overflowing with his accumulation of 11 years worth of toys. But his favorites are his squeaky balls. A few minutes ago, my wife went into our guest bedroom to get something and there, neatly arranged on the guest bed....tucked up against the pillows....she found this:
We did not set this up. That is exactly where he put them. The door to the room was nearly closed, but not latched. So he had to nose it open to get in there, hop up on the bed and tuck the balls up against the pillows. Thank goodness his feet were not wet or dirty because the quilt is a treasure of my wife's....made by her mother years ago.
Only a dog or cat lover can really appreciate this.
Nice to see you back UT.
If I remember right the last time you were here you will helping us figure out if our computers were compatible with Win7. Thanks! 
I've been doing fine. I do hope to actually hang around for a while this time. I'm not sure if I can be much help though, I no longer have U-verse. 
What happened was that I had moved to a neighboring town about a year ago and at the time, U-verse wasn't available. So we went with DSL. However, the highest tier that we could get at our location was Express. 1.5 Mb/s was kinda slow, so we switched to cable. They offered us 8 Mb/s for $30 a month for 6 months. We ended up actually getting speeds around 20 Mb/s, which was great, except for the fact that it was unreliable and would drop out at times. Charter was no help and couldn't get it working after multiple service visits. They even tried to charge us for the visits even though it was their fault.
By this time we switched to voip and began using Netflix heavily, so it was getting annoying having the internet drop out. After the 6 months, we were going to cancel, but they got us to stay on again by keeping the price constant for another 6 months (even if it is unrealiable, 20 megs at that price was a good deal). After the 2nd 6 month period was up, we went back to DSL. At that point, Elite was available where we are. AT&T gave it to us for $25 a month, which isn't bad.
About a couple months ago, we finally got greenlighted for U-verse. However, the prices are MUCH higher than what we had when we first signed up back in 2006. So now we're stuck. I would love to have U-verse back, but it isn't affordable right now. Maybe someday they'll have an offer that's within reach.
So yeah, I'm not up to speed with U-verse anymore. Even if I can't help that much out in the main forums, I could definitely hang around the Lounge.
I thought you might have left UV since your profile changed; but that could have been more merge madness.
You actually started WOTTs, so feel free to stay and hang out in the Lounge. I'll bet you can still help with some Networking issues?
Welcome back.
Yup, and several members had problems logging in; others had _1 added to their moniker if someone on Wireless (or DSL) was using the same one...even if they joined, signed off, then never posted!
So now you have access to all three forums without needing a different ID, or having to sign in/out.
Ah, the merge:
In the merge, SJ lost his thousands of kudo's so he just went back to being some joe 
, well, you get my drift.
Google searches for older posts would look like they were taking you to the old thread but they just take you to the forum home. The threads are still there but it's like looking for a needle in the proverbial haystack.
After the merge, smcleod1106, who used to post here quite a bit, vanished and we had a few "casualties" along the way, after the Hallmark fiasco. 
Yep Dave, that's a period that's hard to forget. And the name "U-talk" went down in infamy and it's just known as the "U-verse Forums" or "AT&T U-verse Community Forums" now. Bigger is better! LOL.
At least when UT re-registered he was able to keep his original registration date of 07-29-2007 which some of us lost.
Hey, and if you visit UU you can still see Uturnaroun at the top of "General Discussion" list with his "THDVR Phase 2/Update" thread. Wow, that was only 3 1/2+ years ago and the thread has had some 70,000+ views.
Change is good.
Wow. So I have some catching up to do. First thing is I've got to learn to stop calling this U-talk.
Uniblurb3 wrote:
Hey, and if you visit UU you can still see Uturnaroun at the top of "General Discussion" list with his "THDVR Phase 2/Update" thread. Wow, that was only 3 1/2+ years ago and the thread has had some 70,000+ views.
Maybe I should make sure my UU login is still working and change that post?
Well, some will always call it "U-talk" and no big deal. And just about the time you catch up they will come along with another upgrade/update and change everything. They just had another upgrade on 4/29 and we've learned not to get used to anything around here.
Hey UT, your post over at UU is part of U-verse history and I wouldn't change anything about it. They must have left it up there for a reason.
Uturnaroun wrote:
Wow. So I have some catching up to do. First thing is I've got to learn to stop calling this U-talk.
Uniblurb3 wrote:
Hey, and if you visit UU you can still see Uturnaroun at the top of "General Discussion" list with his "THDVR Phase 2/Update" thread. Wow, that was only 3 1/2+ years ago and the thread has had some 70,000+ views.
Maybe I should make sure my UU login is still working and change that post?
We lost some others you probably remember, UT. Pip's health is not good at all and she only rarely jumps in just to say hi. Showtime is also much less active than he used to be. I still communicate with him once in a while via E-mail but even that isn't very often. The rest of us are just plain stubborn.
