Re: [SLUG] Verizon FIOS

From: Chris Mathey (slug@mathey.org)
Date: Sat Dec 09 2006 - 07:06:47 EST


Paul M Foster wrote:
> Chuck Hast wrote:
>> On 12/8/06, Eben King <eben01@verizon.net> wrote:
>>> On Fri, 8 Dec 2006, chris lee wrote:
>>>
>>> > On 12/8/06, Richard Smoot <rsmoot@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
>>> >> How is Fios?
>>> >> They were supposed to have the whole county set up with FIOS by a
>>> year ago.
>>> >> I still can't get it. I get the adds in the mail for it quite offten.
>>> >> I have gotten very negative comment on their cable TV service.
>>> >> Just how happy have you all been that have had it for a while on
>>> their
>>> >> broadband internet service?
>>>
>
> <snip>
>
>> It is also under ground so unless it gets ditchwitched, or a node gets
>> full of
>> water or otherwise taken out, it should be more resiliant than the above
>> ground stuff.
>
> Here's an interesting point-- when you want to dig on your property, the
> state insists you call some place where they dispatch people from all
> the utilities to mark up your land, wherever they've laid stuff. Now,
> for plumbing, gas, electric, cable, and phone, there's metal involved.
> These guys walk around with little things that look like metal detectors
> to find where stuff's been laid. So the question is, if there's no metal
> involved with fibre, how do the detector guys know where to mark things
> so you don't cut the line?
>
> Paul
>
Maybe the conduit is metal?
/would like to know also.
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