FIOS Board

[Dubya91]

Anybody else here have Verizon FIOS? I know you guys are very smart and updated about this stuff. Anything I should know?

[ChuckR]

Verizon sucks...

[Robert T Ackerman]

FIOS is ridiculous though Chuck... you have no idea what you are talking about.

[Ogolo]

Watch you bill!!  It has never been right since I got it.
Oh it won't happen on you next bill!

Internet = Ridiculously fast,  TV has a great picture

And stay away from any bonus promotions such as gift / cards and free TV.
Go for free service as you will have a hard time actually getting the free TV or Gift Card.
Record your conversation with the sales rep...and get everything in writing.

Still better than Comcast!  But I do miss Dish Network.

[Steve]

Verizon sucks...

You must have not seeing the commercials where the light goes everywhere and into houses, and family's are amazed at the picture and speed of the internet.

Its not just a commercial, its based on a true story

[overlord]

I <3 FiOS

[rjholla2003]

The only reason I don't have FiOS is because there isn't service in the area.  After standing a few feet from the HDTV in Space Mountain's break room and seeing pixels everywhere, then going to a FiOS cart and standing nose-deep in the same TV and having not one pixel in sight, I'm hooked.

[Dubya91]

Verizon sucks...

You must have not seeing the commercials where the light goes everywhere and into houses, and family's are amazed at the picture and speed of the internet.

Its not just a commercial, its based on a true story

The commercials I used to get on Crap Warner was the snob eating cereal bashing the verizon guy that came to his door. Here it is if anybody has a free minute

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyaPwe528NY

FIOS really is amazing, I have 20/5 Download Upload. Super Fast. The HD picture is also amazing as it dont pixelate with black squares and lag. Also, I have not lagged out of an XBOX Game since.

[WadeJ]

I have the 20/20 plan.  The DVR is no TIVO (not even close) but it freakin kills Comcrap.

No issues on my $200 gift card though Ken.  I heard they had major issues due to overwhelming popularity when they started those offers.

The TV picture is AMAZING

[Ogolo]

Yeah...I think I was one of the unluck ones.  I've had to call them some many times.

And if you want to split the $100 referal fee! 
It is credit towards Verizon service not actually $$.

[Fjask]

FiOS isn't available in my town, even though its available in the town next to mine...

Time Warner really needs to get more HD channels.

[PcMan]

In my part of town I can only get Comcast (which I had since they came out)
I'm at the 16/2 speed and most of the time its faster
but the upload speed stinks
Just a few miles down the road FIOS is available but when I stopped and talked with a technicin he told me my area would be another 6-12 months
he said he even didn't have it at his home.
But the 20 Mbps/20 Mbps $69  Plan looks good since the 50 Mbps/20 Mbps is a little to much at $139.00.

But I'm hoping Comcrap starts pushing out the DOCSIS 3 modems by the end of the year in this area which can download up to 100 Mbps and more (eventually)
but comcrap is full of crap with slowing selective users down.

TV I have basic cable, Dish and bell express

the most informative info on Broadband on the web 
www.dslreports.com

speedtests: test vary greatly from location and service/time etc.

http://speedtest.net 

http://myspeed.visualware.com

www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/

[Dubya91]

FiOS isn't available in my town, even though its available in the town next to mine...

Time Warner really needs to get more HD channels.

Crap Warner has no interest in giving you more HD channels for free. Not to mention, Waste Of Time Warners HD channels tend to be very laggy, unclear and constantly showing squares.

Fios runs at the speed of light, theres nothing faster

Tom, Crap Warner was fighting FIOS in court for control of the NYC Metro Area. In Staten Island alone since TV became available there are over 35,000+ Requests for Fios. The technician told me that and also that they have to call guys in from all over to help out.

[PcMan]

HHmm
not sure whats going on but my speed test today have been very high (DOWNLOADS)
uploads are still slow
thats 176,300 kb/s
Maybe Comcast is messing around in my area  ?
I normally been getting 18,000 to 26,000

[overlord]

176 mbs? Is that even possible?

[PcMan]

Locally

[overlord]

What the hell is comcast doing to make you get 60 mbs? I thought they were throttling everyone.

[PcMan]

don't know
maybe its speedtest.net  ?

on speackeasy I'm getting 47689 from NY  ?
maybe the powerboost is extened ?
maybe FIOS is coming in the area and they are boosting  ?

[Dubya91]

Last Result:
Download Speed: 19975 kbps (2496.9 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 4544 kbps (568 KB/sec transfer rate)

FIOS is the future, these numbers are at one of the slower network packages 

[WadeJ]

don't know
maybe its speedtest.net  ?

on speackeasy I'm getting 47689 from NY  ?
maybe the powerboost is extened ?
maybe FIOS is coming in the area and they are boosting  ?

Just so you know (since I know folks in this industry), I can tell you for a fact that Comcast actually tailors their throughput for all of these type of sites.  They can't sustain those speeds anywhere else and they end up killing the speed of real full size downloads.

I don't know if they caught on already or not but try testmy.net and see if it has the same results.

[overlord]

And ComCrap's secrets are revealed!

[Ogolo]

It really bothers me that they can get away with these things.
Give high QOS to the network speed test sites only...Brilliant!

Even more astounding....
Comcast to Cap Data Transfers at 250 GB in Oct.

With those rates you are getting you can meet your cap in minutes!!

[overlord]

Why are they being such rapists?

[PcMan]

on other test sites they are back to normal
must be some caching on speedtest.net or something  or the extended powerboost.

I'm now averaging around 20 give or take with the crappy 1.5 upload

And by the Way a few months back I did get a call from Camcrap about using to much bandwidth
I asked what was the limit and they said they didn't know.
they threatened to shout me down for a year if I didn't cut back (to the unknown amount which is now known)
if they are going to place a cap they should have some type of "meter" on my account that I can view when I logon the the comcrap site.
I do have other meters on my machine but thats only for this machine.
I know some routers can "meter" and log traffic.
The FCC better step in or this will spread to FIOS and other services.

this is a Good time for FIOS to advertise their services and beat down comcrap in the process  Make them look bad.

FIOS: unlimited bandwidth
Comcast: Limited and no ideas when/where/when you will reach that limit

FIOS: speeds up to 50mbps
Comcast: inconsistent speeds up to 16

FIOS: Uploads up to 20mbps
Comcast: 2 if you can even get it (I can only get 1.5)

FIOS: no FEARS of disconnection
Comcast: always in the back of you mind FEARED/stressed that your connection/VOIP/EMAIL/Business/communication can be cutoff at anytime without notice.

instead of building the tallest building in Philly they should have spent some of that money on infrastructure improvements.

[Dubya91]

Comcrap, Crap Warner and Craplevision are running scared because of FIOS. I returned boxes into Crap Warner the other day and so were about 20 other people. Comcrap, Crap Warner and Craplevision are ALL going to be losing money and customers due to FIOS. You can only screw your customers for so long before they screw you in the end....