Re: [SLUG] fios

From: draeath (draeath@gmail.com)
Date: Sat Nov 01 2008 - 06:57:59 EST


Will these providers never get it? Just give us the damned pipe and be
done with it. Charge your business customers for SLA and guaranteed 9's.
All these invisible restrictions, caps, throttlong, resetting... just
ugh! Nobody seems to play a straight game!

On Fri, 31 Oct 2008 11:32 pm, chris lee wrote:
> had all kinds of fun with FIOS, dumped it after 3 weeks, would have
> been sooner but they cut both the phone and cable lines multiple times
> after they finished up the fiber install so i had to get those fixed
> first.
>
> thing would dump connection every 40 minutes like clockwork, if i
> wanted it with no dumps i could pay then $250 for a business line, they
> do it to stop people form running servers on their 20/20 lines
>
> On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 23:17, Paul Bransford <draeath@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I believe part of their setup involves using some windows-only CD
>> utility to configure their router. You may need to have some sort of
>> windows system available, perhaps if they know ahead of time the
>> technician can bring a laptop. You may be able to use a virtual machine
>> as well.
>>
>> Once the CD's done it's magic, you should be able to toss Windows
>> again.
>>
>> On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 22:36 -0400, Bob Stia wrote:
>>> Hello Sluggers,
>>>
>>> I have decided to go for fios. I have adsl now running into a
>>> router/firewall.
>>>
>>> Any advice? Verizon has already told me that they only support Windoz.
>>>
>>> Bob S
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