#attfiber — Public Fediverse posts

Weekly output: AT&T’s mass-market plans, digital transformations, ROI of AI, AI in Android and Chrome development, Firefox as anti-Chrome, AT&T’s Build-A-Plan, DeepMind CEO on AGI, Starship v3 launch

After yet another week of travel–this time to the Bay Area, spending one day in San Jose at TechEx North America and then the next two days at Google I/O–I’m not going anywhere for the next two work weeks. I’m happy about that.

In addition to everything below, I wrote a post for Patreon readers about two recent challenges I experienced with public speaking: doing a solo PowerPoint presentation and then moderating a panel without being able to see how much time was left or even revise my handwritten notes.

5/18/2026: AT&T’s mass-markets chief: Consumers aren’t ‘chomping at the bit for 6G’, Light Reading

I interviewed Jenifer Robertson, executive vice president and general manager of mass markets at AT&T, at the wireless trade group CTIA’s summer in D.C. two weeks ago, and then getting some clarification about that company’s fiber-buildout plans took longer than I would have expected.

5/18/2026: Fireside Chat: My Transformation Stalled–What’s Gone Wrong?, TechEx North America

The first of two panels i did at TechEx in my second year speaking at this conference had me quizzing Manav Khatri, VP of product and strategy at Ford Credit, and Romona Brown, North American president at Prosci, about how companies can go awry when trying to advance digital transformations of legacy platforms.

5/18/2026: Panel: Measuring Success: ROI of AI and Automation in Business Transformation, TechEx North America

My second panel at TechEx, in the potentially dicey postprandial timeslot, had me quizzing Leo Le Hoang Dung, director of manufacturing digital systems and regional digital transformation at Procter & Gamble; Alice Hilson, senior director of digital innovation and enterprise technology at DuPont; and Brenton House, IBM’s principal advisor for automation and emerging technology. I was pleasantly surprised to see the number of people watching exceed the seats available.

5/19/2026: Google Unwraps Plans to Put AI to Work for Android, Web Developers, PCMag

I wrote part of this on the day before Google I/O and the rest early in the morning before the opening keynote.

5/20/2026: Firefox wants to be the anti-Chrome browser for the AI era, Fast Company

I scheduled an interview at Web Summit Vancouver with Ajit Varma, Mozilla’s head of Firefox, without realizing that my Fast Co. editor Harry McCracken had also booked time with him. But Harry didn’t have time to write something from his interview and generously handed his recording to me.

5/21/2026: AT&T Adds a New (But Retro) Wireless Plan Option: Data By the Bucket, PCMag

My advance copy of AT&T’s press release didn’t mention some important details, so I appreciated an AT&T publicist fielding questions I sent late in the day from Pacific Time while he was working in Central Time.

5/22/2026: DeepMind CEO: ‘AGI’ Is Coming Soon, But Here’s the Test It Must Pass First, PCMag

My one datelined I/O post from Mountain View covered a talk that DeepMind CEO and co-founder Demis Hassabis did with Axios co-founder Mike Allen that shed a little light about how one of the more accomplished people in AI sees where this technology is going.

5/23/2026: SpaceX Starship Hits Some Targets, Misses Others on Latest Test Flight, PCMag

I was ready to write about a launch of SpaceX’s Starship v3 Thursday, but a series of last-minute scrubs pushed that test flight to Friday and gave me enough time to write a little more of the story in advance.

Hulu just gave me a one month credit for the outages I’ve been experiencing, even though it now seems it wasn’t tecnically their fault. But I’ll still take it for having to deal with how persnickety they are with network settings that I had to troubleshoot. #Hulu #ATT #ATTfiber

For possible benefit to anyone.

I’m specifically referring to #Hulu and #ATT #ATTfiber but this may apply to more streaming services and ISPs.

I’d been getting more and more service disruption from Hulu lately and spent this afternoon troubleshooting.

I’m now thinking ATT’s default/automatic DNS service is awful for how VERY sensitive Hulu is to IP-based location. YTTV may be the same.

Switched my Apple TV to manual DNS using Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 and so far everything seems good again.

YMMV

How fast is your internet? I just checked
am Im seeing 789.71 Mbps down and 799.88
Mbps up. #attfiber. #smarthome

According to my latest speed tests Maison Des Lunes is getting
758.69 Mbps down and 805.31
Mbps up. That is #attfiber gigabyte plan. #smarthome

According to my latest speed tests Maison Des Lunes is getting
779.88 Mbps down and 805.31
Mbps up. That is #attfiber gigabyte plan. #smarthome

According to my latest speed tests Maison Des Lunes is getting
764.11 Mbps down and 781.46
Mbps up. That is #attfiber gigabyte plan. #smarthome

How fast is your internet? I just checked
am Im seeing 818.02 Mbps down and 781.46
Mbps up. #attfiber. #smarthome

According to my latest speed tests Maison Des Lunes is getting
761.66 Mbps down and 804.83
Mbps up. That is #attfiber gigabyte plan. #smarthome

How fast is your internet? I just checked
am Im seeing 759.68 Mbps down and 804.83
Mbps up. #attfiber. #smarthome

According to my latest speed tests Maison Des Lunes is getting
763.76 Mbps down and 804.83
Mbps up. That is #attfiber gigabyte plan. #smarthome

How fast is your internet? I just checked
am Im seeing 791.66 Mbps down and 816.02
Mbps up. #attfiber. #smarthome

Weekly output: Trump’s TikTok reprieve, Android + Samsung Galaxy S25 series, ISP performance, Android 16

For a little while Sunday afternoon, I thought I might have a home-team rooting interest in the Super Bowl for the first time in my post-collegiate life–but the Washington Commanders’ improbable renaissance season, one that somehow got me to appreciate pro football a little more, ended with a 55-23 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles in the NFC championship game.

1/21/2025: Trump Executive Order Hits 75-Day Pause Button on TikTok Ban, PCMag

I made sure this post included the most important bit of context in any story about privacy fears over TikTok: the continued, pathetic failure of Congress to pass a comprehensive privacy bill.

1/22/2025: Google Adds AI Shortcuts, Lock-Screen Updates, More to Galaxy S25 Series, PCMag

The context I made sure to add to this post: Samsung’s flavor of Android still isn’t getting the Hold for Me feature that I frequently rely on when calling customer-service lines from any of the Pixel-series phones I’ve used.

1/23/2025: What’s the Fastest Wireless Network in the US?, PCMag

I wish Ookla–owned by PCMag’s parent company Ziff Davis–would provide more clarity about how it factors upload speeds into its speed ratings. I would also like to see them stop treating AT&T Fiber as a separate service while lumping Verizon’s Fios in with slower residential services.

1/23/2025: Google Ships First Beta of Android 16: Here’s What You Get, PCMag

Google PR gave me a heads-up about this announcement only the afternoon before, but I’ve now had more than enough practice at summarizing release notes for upcoming Android developer-preview and beta releases.

#Android15 #Android16 #ATTFiber #GalaxyS25 #Ookla #SamsungUnpacked #Speedtest #TMobile5G #TikTok #TikTokBan #TrumpExecutiveOrder #WashingtonCommanders

According to my latest speed tests Maison Des Lunes is getting
820.9 Mbps down and 803.55
Mbps up. That is #attfiber gigabyte plan. #smarthome

According to my latest speed tests Maison Des Lunes is getting
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Mbps up. That is #attfiber gigabyte plan. #smarthome

Weekly output: AT&T’s wireless backup to AT&T’s fiber, new Android features, court approves TikTok commercial ban

This year has only two full work weeks left and CES is only four weeks away–and somehow I have yet to get a cold call from a publicist about the annual gadget gathering in Las Vegas. I’m sure that I just jinxed myself with that last statement.

12/2/2024: AT&T Rolls Out Free ‘Internet Backup’ Wireless Service for Fiber Customers, PCMag

I’m pretty sure that the only times our Verizon Fios fiber-optic connection has dropped since we had it set up in 2010 involved power outages, so I used some of this post to remind readers that AT&T fiber subscribers probably won’t ever need this backup connectivity.

12/5/2024: Latest Android Feature Drop Upgrades Speech to Text, Images to Words, More, PCMag

Of all the features in this latest round of Android feature updates, the QR code media-sharing shortcut seems like the one I’ll use most often.

12/6/2024: Appeals Court Sides With US Government on Pending TikTok Commercial Ban, PCMag

I hadn’t planned on spending half of Friday writing up the opinion from that Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit that agreed with most of the government’s arguments about the need to impose a ban on app-store and Internet-hosting transactions with TikTok, but I did know that a court ruling was coming at some point, and at least this one landed on a day that allowed me some time to digest it.

#AndroidFeatureDrop #ATTFiber #ATTInternetBackup #ChinaSpying #ChineseSocialMedia #fiberBroadband #PixelDrop #TikTok #TikTokBan #TikTokCourtRuling

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Mbps up. #attfiber #smarthome

According to my latest speed tests Maison Des Lunes is getting
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Mbps up. That is #attfiber gigabyte plan. #smarthome

How fast is your internet? I just checked
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Mbps up. #attfiber. #smarthome

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am Im seeing {{ states('sensor.internet_test_down') }} Mbps down and {{ states('sensor.internet_test_up') }}
Mbps up. #attfiber. #smarthome

How fast is your internet? I just checked
am Im seeing 884.14 Mbps down and 818.96
Mbps up. #attfiber. #smarthome

How fast is your internet? I just checked
am Im seeing 884.14 Mbps down and 818.96
Mbps up. #attfiber. #smarthome

According to my latest speed tests Maison Des Lunes is getting
881.0 Mbps down and 767.82
Mbps up. #attfiber #smarthome

According to my latest speed tests Maison Des Lunes is getting
881.0 Mbps down and 767.82
Mbps up. That is #attfiber gigabyte plan. #smarthome