AT&T Customer Support understands issue with DVR receiver but fails to properly correct 5 times in two months so far. Any Help available?

AT&T stores just deal with phones.

@T_L I've had some of these issues before.  If a dvr or other set top box is provisioned with the wrong number (they don't use mac address to provision boxes they use the GUID # on the bottom of the receiver box to provision boxes, which is sometimes related to mac address #).  Since the boxes get refurbished if they change the network cards internally the mac address will change and they usually forget to update sticker.  

Provisioning can be a real pain, and often take a day or 2 to go into affect after they do it, if they manage to get it right.

Once you start getting sent the wrong model of equipment its physically impossible for any agent, even an advanced one or customer loyalty to over ride the system.  It automatically sends out "like for like"  if you get a wireless receiver, it will just keep sending wireless receivers endlessly.  The quickest way to resolve this is to have them send extensive notes to a field tech and make a field tech physically drive to your house just to swap the DVR (and pray the one they pick up at the warehouse that morning happens to actually work).

What model is your original dvr? what model is the "upgraded dvr"?  it should be written on front of box or bottom.  

The only team you can try is calling customer retention, but getting the correct model # box provisioned is difficult unless you get really lucky with a really competent agent.

and remember last but not least NEVER  power on a box they mail you until AFTER the date and time they tell you it's going to be provisioned.  It's a ridiculous system, but if you plug it in early, it messes up the system and causes old box to stop working and replacement box, and the only way to fix it is to have them manually retype in guid again and re-provision it again starting all over.

Customer retention should be able to sort out any address errors in account.  I'm not sure what you mean by extra equipment.  It might be a "wap" wireless access point for the wireless receiver.  If you provide a model # of the various equipment I can tell you what it is.

Sorry, I'm unfamiliar about method to reply to each comment individually, so I am grouping them here as follows:

For baseballisback;

Thanks, that was what I thought. I meant to say 'brick and mortar' in place of 'box', but I guess the meaning was understood all the same.

For my thoughts;

We have the U450 with the Internet1000 plan. I'm not sure what is meant by 'Uverse IPTV' exactly, and I guess I may of misunderstood how a 'move order' actually works. As I explained everything worked exactly as I thought it would as I understood it would as implied by the information provided by AT&Ts website.

As for the bill increase, I guess I was unaware of any annual increases, it's just that each time I contact customer support, I noticed that there is a service change reported on my billing information on the My AT&T app even though nothing was supposed to changed, which does not make sense to me at all. I have a list of orders, most canceled, that I can not fine any information about said orders. Thanks for the reply, and as mentioned below I guess I'll have to have a Tech dispatched again.

For madmax988;

Beginning about the extra equipment, prior to the Technician showing up, in both residents, the fiber-optic cable came into a box that had a power cord and an Ethernet cable coming out going to the gateway, I refer to this box as the fiber-optic interface. As mentioned above, everything was working fine a few hours before the Technician showed up.

After the Technician supposedly checked the connections at that box, a box was added to that interface (piggyback style), so now the fiber-optic cable comes into a box with an Ethernet jumper cable coming out and going into the box with a power cord and an Ethernet cable coming out going to the gateway. I don't know why, but I keep thinking about how credit card skimmers work, which is really too late now.

As for the equipment prior and after the move, we have the following:

 5268AC Gateway,

 IPH8010 DVR receiver,

 VIP2500 Wireless receiver, with the

 VAP2500 Wireless Access Point

Everything was working fine as expected prior to and after the Technician showed up.

As for the upgraded DVR receiver the Technician failed to get working, I don't know the model because he took it back with him, I only have the hardware address listed in my home network device list.

It was about a month later when we were trying to resolve an issue about a large bill credit we got for no apparent reason with customer support that they kept insisting was correct and I knew was wrong, that's when the DVR stopped working. The first time they were to send a replacement DVR, the email about returning the equipment arrived before the equipment did, referred to the above VIP2500 wireless receiver. Sure enough, we received an ISB7005 wireless receiver which I actually liked because it would reboot faster than the VIP2500.

After four more attempts with customer service in resolving the billing issue and replacement DVR, supposably first time they sent the wrong equipment by mistake and then there were apparently issues with the shipper, they guaranteed that they would send the DVR, meanwhile the ISB7005 receiver worked fine. Well, we ended up getting another VIP2500.

I understand about not connecting the replacement before the specified date/time, but the last piece of equipment sent actually had two different dates/times specified. I am not sure exactly if I waited for the later date/time, but I figured I'd just forgo the DVR and just have two wireless receivers, but when connecting the second wireless (the VIP2500) receiver, it disabled the ISB7005 receiver. Anyhow, I am not sure if it's even possible to have two wireless receivers at once, or if I just did not wait for the later date/time, but I'm back with the VIP2500 while I believed the ISB7005 seemed better.

You referred to calling 'customer retention', is that a specific department I need to ask for as opposed to 'customer service' or 'technical support'? Or would it be better as the person above and you suggested to just call and have another Technician come out and replace the equipment? Shouldn't that have been done by the original Technician when he failed to get the upgraded DVR too work?

Anyhow, I really appreciate your reply, and I shall try to figure this out tomorrow after giving this some more thought if I don't get anymore replies. Thanks.

p.s. I don't know why everything seems to and should be so simple and worked ends up becoming a complicated mess not easily resolvable. 

@T_L 

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At&t has tprettt much the worst useless tech and customer support.  They hate customers except for our money and don't understand why we keep bothering them.

You need to have 1 dvr hooked up (the iph8010, which is the best dvr model they offer assuming it works since they are allowed and refurbished) or you won't be able to record and shows or pause and rewind live TV.

You can have 2 wireless receivers(isb7005 or vip2500) connected to the wap(vap2500). I happen to have 1 of each although the different models sometimes can have bugs with a specific wap model(I had to swap the motorla vip2500 for an older ven501 wap for both boxes to work). It also of course depends on if the wireless signal from wap reaches both boxes and you get full bars on both.

Also once they send you replacements the old box can becomes unprovisioned so you kind of are commited to switching after time it says.

You can ask for customer retention/loyalty or Google to get a direct number but att doesn't allow number to be posted in forums.