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Just had mine installed today. Anyone have any experience with it? I like the TV so far and was just wondering how the internet was going to be for torrents ect. I just have a hardwired connection to my desktop. No wireless needed. Also does anyone have any tips or tricks to get the most out of FIOS when it comes to overall speed and torrent downloads? 15mpbs down and 2mbps up...
 
Only advice I can give you is get more hard drive space.
 
Quick question. Did they pull your copper? They did for me so I'm royally fucked if I ever want to change to something else.
Though, I don't think I'm going to change to anything else for a LONG time. This is pretty kick ass.
 
Please keep us posted. The damned FIOS site won;t recognize my zipcode as a valid city. When I call, I just get a loop... can't ever get through to the "I wanna buy FIOS" people.
 
SarverSystems said:
The damned FIOS site won;t recognize my zipcode as a valid city.
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There is an alternative to Verizon FiOS called AT&T U-verse. While FiOS is FTTP (Fiber To The Premises), U-verse is FTTN (Fiber To The Node) and copper from the node to the premises. You don't get as much bandwidth with FTTN as you do with FTTP. However, the US is divided up into areas where you can either get FiOS or U-verse. I think there are only six cities in the entire country where you have a choice of one or the other.

The area where I live is AT&T U-verse, and I have it. While it's not quite as good as FiOS, it's still better than cable or satellite. I won't ever go back to Time Warner Cable if I can possibly help it, hehe. My High-speed Internet connection is 6M down / 1M up.

Also, U-verse will eventually become FTTP, although that probably won't happen for another five years or more. U-verse chose FTTN because it's much faster to roll out, so that they can provide it to more customers in a faster period of time.

FiOS and U-verse customers seem to fight all the time on their forums about which is better. But for 99% of the country, you don't have a choice... it's one or the other.
 
I called Verizon and asked when they'll get the FiOS server to my area and she said, "later this year." They said that last year. :(

The only thing I won't be able to get is FiOS t.v.
 
10 years ago when I was struggling to pay for ISDN, every month I'd ask when DSL was going to be available in my area. For 10 years they said "Soon, maybe next quarter".

10 years later, it's still not available.

Luckily cable came along. As is FIOS. I would switch to FIOS, but I can't handle their ridiculous "must use our Router" requirement. I have too many corporate tunnels and other port needs to deal with a shitty router.


Gott said:
I called Verizon and asked when they'll get the FiOS server to my area and she said, "later this year." They said that last year. :(

The only thing I won't be able to get is FiOS t.v.
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TechLarry said:
10 years ago when I was struggling to pay for ISDN, every month I'd ask when DSL was going to be available in my area. For 10 years they said "Soon, maybe next quarter".

10 years later, it's still not available.

Luckily cable came along. As is FIOS. I would switch to FIOS, but I can't handle their ridiculous "must use our Router" requirement. I have too many corporate tunnels and other port needs to deal with a shitty router.
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My cable company (Cablevision.. I have iO, Optimum Online and Optimum Voice) makes me use a special modem to be able to get their phone service. I had a nice Motorola modem for years.. And now I have this annoying Scientific Atlanta modem that I hate.. Luckily I get to use any router I want, but still.. I hate this modem so much.

I've always been very loyal to my cable company... Optimum Online is pretty fast and reliable (most of the time).. but FIOS really seems like the better choice..
 
AndonSage said:
There is an alternative to Verizon FiOS called AT&T U-verse. While FiOS is FTTP (Fiber To The Premises), U-verse is FTTN (Fiber To The Node) and copper from the node to the premises. You don't get as much bandwidth with FTTN as you do with FTTP. However, the US is divided up into areas where you can either get FiOS or U-verse. I think there are only six cities in the entire country where you have a choice of one or the other.

The area where I live is AT&T U-verse, and I have it. While it's not quite as good as FiOS, it's still better than cable or satellite. I won't ever go back to Time Warner Cable if I can possibly help it, hehe. My High-speed Internet connection is 6M down / 1M up.

Also, U-verse will eventually become FTTP, although that probably won't happen for another five years or more. U-verse chose FTTN because it's much faster to roll out, so that they can provide it to more customers in a faster period of time.

FiOS and U-verse customers seem to fight all the time on their forums about which is better. But for 99% of the country, you don't have a choice... it's one or the other.
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How is FTTN any different than HFC?

HFC is fiber to the node, where it then gets converted to coax.


We have a small ISP here locally that does FTTH, but the speeds are weak, 1.5M/384k
 
TechLarry said:
Luckily cable came along. As is FIOS. I would switch to FIOS, but I can't handle their ridiculous "must use our Router" requirement. I have too many corporate tunnels and other port needs to deal with a shitty router.
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That depends. If you are not going to get tv service with it you can have them run ethernet from the box to a router instead(the coax is needed for the guide for the tv). You can get them to do this for a home connection(friend got them to do it on his) or if you get business class they will use ethernet by default. Using ethernet you don't need to use their router. Hell we just switched on of our clients over to it from DSL. Guy was like which router do you want and I told him I didn't need it. He laughed and handed me a peice of paper with the ip settings I needed.

If you have them run coax from the box on the side of your house you can always bridge the modem/router they give you so it acts just as a modem and run your own router behind it. Isn't that hard to do.
 
They sometimes cannot offer all of the services down the lines until they get in repeaters and such to handle the added bandwidth of a whole neighborhood with more than just one service. Especially if your on the edge of their service area. Even if they can handle it they dont take the chance.

And they always remove the copper lines, the cost to maintain two networks is high and so instead of having copper there just rotting essentially and needing maintanence they pull it. Besides the way things are going optical could fully replace it eventually.

The stupid apartment I live at signed a contract with the cable company that wired the place so I am shafted with anything but DSL. Fios is available but until that contract runs out no one here will get it. Called the cable company to check their prices when I moved in 3 years ago, they wanted to charge me 40 dollars for a 1mbit down internet connection. Laughed and hung up.

Congrats and enjoy the speed and the gorgious HD (you luckey pansy :p)
 
Man, by the time they get FiOS over here to the west coast, there will probably be some new, faster service for the same price :(
 
FIOS is starting to look better and better... Have been reading some great reviews about it. I'm lucky to have my speeds higher than 7MB up and 1.5MB down. (Cable company says it should be 15/2.. so it's less than half :p). I wonder if getting Optimum Online Boost (30mb up) would help at all... I really don't feel like spending MORE money a month though to my cable company.. And isn't FIOS like $70 I think? Decisions decisions..
 
Yep, I got the same, next year crap from Verison about the FIOS lines, 3 years later nada and I moved.

At my new apartment I was told, not in the next 2 years, crap, I am stuck with comcast cable or dialup, I don't even have a good facing for a dish.
 
dandragonrage said:
That's for the better.
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Yea if we are talking about a dish for internet you are better with dial up.

Everyone I know with verizon fios has been happy with it. I can't wait till I can get it where I live(they are within a few blocks of me but have been that way for a while)
 
I watched the Superbowl at my uncle's house with FIOS on his Sony LCOS RPTV. It looked like total crap. His TV wasn't set up as best as it could be; sharpness was about 1/3 up, but the picture was worse than Comcast gives me with my sharpness at max.

I do want FIOS internet, though. Hell, Comcast keeps lowering bandwidths for its channels, so it might drop below FIOS TV, too.
 
dandragonrage said:
I watched the Superbowl at my uncle's house with FIOS on his Sony LCOS RPTV. It looked like total crap. His TV wasn't set up as best as it could be; sharpness was about 1/3 up, but the picture was worse than Comcast gives me with my sharpness at max
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It's entirely possible there was something wrong with his cabling, or the TV. Just saying, don't blame the service until you eliminate other possible problems. BTW, you could always buy a $30 digital over-the-air antenna at Walmart to test if the TV is the problem. If the HD digital channels still look bad with that, it's a problem with the TV.

I enjoyed watching the Superbowl on my 52" Sony XBR4 with AT&T U-verse HD. Excellent picture quality :)
 
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