What's the deal with FIOS in Pinellas County? Are they ever going to
install it?
I have a friend that works for Bright House and he said the Verizon got
such a poor return on FIOS offers in the South part of Pinellas county
that they have discontinued any plans to wire the rest of Pinellas
county. Not sue how a Bright House guy would be privileged to that info
anyway. Say it ain't true.
Sorry for the slight OT.
Monday, February 16, 2009, 11:38:20 AM, Chris Mathey wrote:
CM> steve szmidt wrote:
>> On Saturday 14 February 2009, Robin 'Roblimo' Miller wrote:
>>
>>> Does anyone have FiOS? If so, any problems with their wireless and
>>> Linux? And does their wireless router have Cat-5 ports for at least two
>>> computers, or do I need to add my own router/switch?
>>>
>>
>> I've been running with cable for almost a decade. A while ago I upgraded to
>> 20Mb/2Mb but could never exceed 12.5Mb. After half a dozen techs one finally
>> pointed out that the default modem they give you is not able to exceed 12.5.
>>
>> The new one is an Ambit according to the slip. I've not been able to read any
>> name or model on the box itself. It is flatter than the other model and comes
>> with four Ethernet connectors.
>>
>> (This I run into my firewall and then into switches.)
>>
>> I now have something like 19.8 Mb/2Mb.
>>
>> I've been looking at getting FiOS as a backup for when the cable goes down so
>> I'm also interested to hear what people are saying. There are a lot of
>> unhappy people making noise about FiOS. But then happy people usually don't
>> make as much noise.
>>
CM> I have the 20/20 FIOS service.
CM> My previous cable service was supposed top be 15/5, however like Steve
CM> said I never got more than 12.5.
CM> My FIOS I can get about 19.2 down (remember you have to account for TCP
CM> overhead) and
CM> about 15.5 up (I think I could get more though, just never stressed it).
CM> Comparatively speaking FIOS is a lot more stable for me. For the year I
CM> have had it I cannot remember a single outage.
CM> I've had cable modems in 5 different houses and I would lose service at
CM> least once a month. Mostly brief outages though but annoying at least.
CM> A friend of mine is an engineer at brighthouse and is testing the new
CM> DOCSIS 3.0 modem. He can saturate his 100mb LAN.
CM> wow.
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