Verizon Fios

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Anyone have this or know anything about it? I'm probably moving to a house soon that is prewired for it so wondering what it's like.

Internet + HDTV

Gamers really like it. Fiber means less and consistant latency. It's been a while, but last I heard the TV options weren't as good as satellite. Most of what I see offered on TV is crap anyway - so it probably doesn't matter.

i have it, internet and phone service,

im not a gamer and i find it really good, its really fast, easy to use, if its slow its mostly the computer or the IP address that was givin to your computer (turn off modem and wait about a minute and turn it back on)

houses nomrally arent prewired unless done so by electrician or service installer,


note: verizon internet security suit/radialpoint internet security, if you are using a windows 2000, your better off with AVG.

what i likebest about it, if stumped and calling tech support, (differant depending on area) at least the number is within the united states and the techs are trained and to some (depending on your mood or skill level) will talk about vintage computing or craete intersting technical smalltalk (done to me a few times, taugth him a thing ot 2)

when getting modem, modems for broadband are actiontec (it will say verizon on the case, but is the m1424WR model) the installation tech may not know how to set it up by heart and may end up calling tech support(i have "taken over" during modem setup, one tech (last one) actually did was went to his truck, came back in with his laptop and had me set it up for him!

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We have had Fios for 1 1/2 years. We have been happy with it. Consumer Reports rated it the best internet and long distance phone service in the February '08 issue and TV service in the March '08 issue . It has never been down.
We have the 10MB Service which is the slowest in our area and roadrunner around here runs a 5. Fios is not subject to slowdowns when more than one person in the area is on like roadrunner is.

We have had 3 people on at the sametime in our house and have had plenty of speed.
We put the router in the basement next to the ONT (Optical Network Terminal). We disabled the wireless, and ran Cat5e in the house through metal Netgear Gigabit Ethernet switches. That way we could transfer files in the house faster without going through the router.

Our phone is on Fios also. It eliminated the buzz on the line and we don't get phantom rings when it rains. It even works with the old rotary pulse dial phones.

Fios TV is not available in our area yet

I got FiOS a year ago after many years of Verizon DSL. I have no complaints about it although it doesn't seem any faster than DSL did. Of course, I really only use it for casual web surfing and shopping on iTunes, maybe YouTube now and then. I'm not an online gamer (or really a gamer in general unless you count baseball and chess games).

When the customer service line is answered by an actual Verizon employee, you're speaking with someone in Bellevue, WA.

Until last January, the contractor who handled a lot of the CS call overflow did so in their Auburn, WA, office. However, last January the project was transferred to Juarez, Mexico. (I used to work at the contractor - when the contract moved, they transferred me over to the Verizon Wireless CS line, but I couldn't take the variable pay rate [based on multiplying your calls per hour by an amount derived from an average of your last eight QA surveys, changing every hour - could be anywhere from minimum wage to $18/hr]. Too much pay anxiety!)

In Northern New England, it used to be FiOS. Now its called FAST (Fiber Access Speed Technology) by FairPoint. Verizon sold all wireline business in the three Northern New England US states last winter, and they couldn't even use Verizons FiOS trademark, which kinda blows.

I am not sure if my street is on FiOS, because Verizon stopped the project in my area a little while before they announced the sale of the business. We don't get FiOS TV in many areas because of "franchise agreements" (read contracts) in many N.E. towns with traditional cable systems. Many New England towns' cable franchise contracts are going to expire in the couple years, in which Verizon or FairPoint could take over former cable systems like Comcast. CONcast as I like to call it has ripped off many customers over the course of a few years for a high price with less to use that subscribers money to build their skyscraper HQ in Philly.

It's interesting in FairPoint's end, where they are exploring IPTV, which could just replace cable. They are trying out a hundred people in my state to see if watching TV over the IP and using a on screen display like a webpage could make cable outdated. I like to see how that works out.