On 9/4/05, Bill Glidden <bglidden@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: slug@nks.net [mailto:slug@nks.net] On Behalf Of steve szmidt
> > Sent: Saturday, September 03, 2005 11:09 PM
> > To: slug@nks.net
> > Subject: Re: [SLUG] verizon dsl
> >
> > On Saturday 03 September 2005 09:22, Joe Brandt wrote:
> > > >Technically, if you don't know something about a subject - you ARE
> > stupid
> > > > on that subject.
> > >
> > > Wrong!!!
> >
> > Nope. Ignorance and stupidity IS the same thing.
> >
> Would poor grammar be considered ignorance or stupidity?
>
> (Sorry, couldn't resist!)
>
> Back to FIOS momentarily, does anyone know if it's true that with FIOS one
> MUST use the Verizon-provided router for it to work? Their web page makes
> this statement. I missed it before.
>
> If that's true I suppose I'll need to spend the $70 to purchase the wireless
> router from them.
>
> Verizon isn't making this easy ... First, they cut my brighthouse cable and
> my neighbor's when they ran the fiber from the street to the house. I wonder
> if Brighthouse will cut the fiber when they come to bury the new coax they
> had to run :) Now, it looks like I may have to pay $70 to replace a
> perfectly good wireless router. At least the one they sell if 802.11G.
>
Now out the 5 or so jacks they will install your house you are more
than welcometo hnook up your own wireless router to them. Just the
one that sits in the ont is nothing more than a dlink.
> I hope it's all worth it.
>
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