I had a cable modem through BrightHouse, but it was VERY unreliable. Six
months they worked on my connection and could not figure out why I dropped
the IP address every 24 hours and had to reset my modem EVERY Time in order
to pull another one. I finally threw in the towel and went to Verizon.
Never regretted that move. ZERO outages, and the speed...well, it speaks
for itself.
I was less impressed by their TV service. Everything worked well until they
migrated to a new system, and somehow lost us in the mix. For two months I
had very poor TV service (if I had it at all) and was told, "Sorry...all I
can do is put in a help desk ticket and in 24 hours, someone should contact
you. I can credit you two weeks service, but that's about all I can do."
DirecTV offered me a sweet deal to switch back, so after begging Verizon to
PLEASE fix my account in their system, which I was told wold take at least
48 hours, I said no thanks. Went back to DirecTV and I'm happy again.
On 5/29/07, steve szmidt <steve@szmidt.org> wrote:
>
> On Tuesday 29 May 2007 06:48, David Meyer wrote:
> > I was pissed when they did that to me too, but since all my stuff was
> > already at GoDaddy, I just left it there. I got so addicted to the
> speed
> > that FIOS has that I didn't worry about the rest :-)
>
> I can imagine! :)
>
> There are things to consider for those who have not yet signed up.
> Part of the purpose with fiber is to partly deregulate their local loop.
> (Which is the wiring done between the local Central Office and your
> building.)
>
> By implementing fiber they no longer need to share the bandwidth with
> others.
> They will in fact as part of their installation requirement move your
> phone
> service to the fiber, or not install it at all.
>
> We can see how they have all but stopped servicing the local loop while
> preparing to replace it with fiber.
>
> I'm curious to see anyone who had cable to see what Verizon said about it,
> when you asked for fiber and they found out about the cable. FIOS is such
> a
> big strategic move by Verizon I'm sure they are going gangbusters to
> remove
> competition.
>
> Cable meanwhile, claim to be able to deliver the same bandwidth already,
> or
> soon.
>
> --
>
> Steve Szmidt
>
> "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety
> deserve neither liberty nor safety."
> Benjamin Franklin
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