On Saturday 09 December 2006 7:06 am, you wrote:
> 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.
>
I watched them as they put in my fiber. They lay a nylon ribbon with an
embedded copper wire along with the conduit / fiber. They ground it in
the junction box in the street. I asked them what the ribbon was for,
and he said, that's so they can find it, if they need to.
By the way, I've had FIOS for almost 2 years now, and I've loved it.
15/2 service, and only had a couple hiccups. I also got the TV service
about 6 months ago. It's OK, the DVR isn't as good as the DirecTivo I
was running, but I've saved money over all. There are more HD channels
and I do belive they are clearer than DirecTV. So I'm happy.
Tom
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