Sometime in the next couple of weeks we'll be changing from Verizon DSL to Verizon fiber optics (which they call Fios). Because we're an existing customer we're getting it for $30 a month. From what I understand it's much faster than DSL, but the main reason we're getting it is because we're going wireless and getting rid of our home land line (no DSL without phone service).

I was just wondering if anyone else has made the switch to fiber optics....specifically Verizon. How is it??

 

Had Fios once but the antibiotics worked Darn Skeeters!

 

Thats why we fog them

 

Hoss, go visit this site:
http://www.broadbandreports.com/forum/vzfiber

Pretty much good news, although there is always someone with a problem - just like our beloved Dodge CTD's (there is always someone getting crummy fuel mileage or what not).

I think I'll be changing over to FIOS here shortly; the conduit has been laid and we're waiting on Vz to pull the fiber through. I haven't seen any price discounts here yet so I'll keep my fingers crossed. Not sure if I'll go the 15/2 service ($49.95) or 5/2 ($39.95).

I was going to go naked FIOS and use a service like Vonage for POTS use, but I am not real happy with Vonage. I'm ready to ship the 2nd unit back to them and call it quits on VOIP for a while.

 

Thanks.

We're just getting the cheap 5/2 service....but since we're "migrating" from Verizon DSL they're giving it to us for $29.95 a month instead of $39.95 a month. DSL is somewhere around 1.5 Mbps and that is plenty fast for me.....so I figure 5 Mbps is more than enough for what I do with the internet (which is mainly stuff like this).

 

I think I had that one time Antibiotics and abstanance (doing without) for six weeks cured it.
A while afterwards, I got married.
No antibiotics required now, still doing without.

 

PCOD?

 

Yep
Somewhere around April/May '87

Shortround out

 

You guys are spoiled, Comcast won't even pull digital cable lines down our road.

We are the only idiots left in America with analog cable. Closest thing we can get to broadband is Directway. It's OKAY...... My Mom has it for the business, only beacuse it would take us 45 minutes to send a 1MB file otherwise.
I wish I was upgrading from DSL! I heard some BS that a compay was spreading this way that offered some type of "Wireless" signal that compared to Cable speeds, but after leaving three messages with them I figrured they weren't in fact spreading this way??
I give up on most downloads before they even finish, I'm blazing the WWW right now at 28.8!!

Took 30 seconds to load the "Smiles List" page!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

We got Digital cable ran a couple years ago (didn't partake, liked Dish better),
Cable internet took another year go get going.

Had a wireless system for about 4 years, then DSL finally was available in my neighborhood so I jumped on it.
Wireless (Sprint Broadband Direct) had faster download times, but slower than dialup upload times.
The wireless stopped being supported or sold a couple years ago,
so I was on borrowed time, thus the jump to DSL.

Haven't heard great things about the Cable internet in the neighborhood yet, I'm thinking half the infrastructure is still 20 years old, so won't be jumping to Cable anytime soon.

Fiber Optic is a pipe dream.


phox

 

Fiber is good all around for everyone; once it starts to be more common, the cable companies will start throttling up their own speeds as well to maintain a competitive playing field. Its already started. Unfortunately, not everyone will be able to take advantage of it all, but most will.

Even DSL is being bumped up to over 7MB down in places to compete with cable and where there is no fiber currently planned.

I'm happy at 3/768 (free upgrade from the previous 1.5/128 plan) with my DSL and its very stable; but those 15/2 speeds do sound appealing.

 

I got FIOS. It is GREAT! Hoo boy is it fast. Nothing like downloading a 92 MB file in 57 seconds. Really though, I can't stress how fast this is. I got the 15/2 package. If you switch to Verizon phone service, they give you a $5 a month break.

As much as I like it, if you absolutely don't need the speed, there are cheaper alternatives. SBC is now offering DSL service for a scant $14.95 a month !!! When you figure that FIOS costs 2 - 3x more than SBC DSL, it really makes you think if you need all that speed. But if you are a speed freak like me, then you just gotta have it.

 

wonder what Jack thinks of all these internet connections? Doesnt he house the DTR servers?

 

You're exagerrating.
I pray to God that you're exaggerating.
That is, what, 100 times faster than my DSL?

 

The main reason we're getting Fios is because we want to get rid of our home phone line that we never use. Unfortunately, you cannot get DSL if you don't have phone service. You can, however, get Fios if you don't have phone service. The combination of phone service and DSL service with Verizon is costing us about $70-75 a month. When we drop the phone service and the DSL, we will only be paying $30 a month for Fios....so we'll be saving $45 a month AND getting faster internet service.

DSL is plenty fast for me, but it's all about the money.