I want my FIOS
They ran the fiber past my house. It's just not lit yet
They better give me a damn good rate on TV service too.

 

I was thinking about that. How is fios tv? Worth it? Will it suck the juice out of fios the way cable has "peak" times.

 

Me too Got the flyer on my door last week about contractors laying the cable...

 

Not a psychic... I'm just watching you.

 

From what I have read on other forums, SD from FIOS looks better than SD from cable because they have so much bandwidth they don't have to compress the signal. They seem happy with the HD stuff too.

 

http://www.verizon.net/fiostv

Expanded basic starts at $35. Not bad at all. I pay over $55 for Comcast basic.

 

Steve wasnt even thinking about this thread untill i brought it up you fool. Let us know the speeds. run some test like Steve did and show off #@$%#$%@#$

 

I am going to put my server back up and let some people upload shit from me so i'll prolly make a gunny account.

 

That would be great. Let me know when its running. I can share some and have some!! lol.

 

Just finished setting up the FIOS and the shit is crazy fast. It is only at 5MB right now I have to call in tonight for the 15MB because the order was bad.

BTW the reason I am using this name or made 2 names is that JJ4short is banned and I don't know if I am banned or if theres something wrong. I didn't get an email about it and I tried to contact SOOPA but hey whatever happens happens.

 

Word on the street is you were banned for some thread that's been deleted

 

Well I am talking to Jatt and apparently it might be because I made the post about forum fights? I dunno Well if it is then erase this name and my bad I didn't know because the email address you guys have is an old one later.
Permabanned? or a week or what? I dunno I didn't get any info from Soopa I will PM him and tell him to email me or something.

 

Just got it installed at work:

 

 

fucking insane!!!

 

I did my test just now but that is with 2 people downloading from my server and I am downloading a DVD off of Azureus

 

JJ4short, you're not banned... but maybe it's because of something else...

oh, I see JJ4short viewing this thread... nevermind...

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it was all cleared up with the soop. I was banned for a few days for being bad but I hadnt updated my email, so thats it.

 

the FIOS is lit in my town. The verizon website says I'm good to go. I'll order it next month. I'll let them screw up a few other houses first. Plus I'm still on $19.99 from Comcast.

 

I’m so jealous, I’m still stuck on pos Adelphia that charges us 45 a month since dsl is not available in my area and I only get like 2mb down when its suppose to be 5mb down. Not only is it slow and pricey, it’s very unreliable, it dies like 5+ times a month

Moral to this story: stay away from shitdelphia

 

let's see if it's available in my area....






damnit!

 

Holy shit mang, Ive been thinking about this fiber optic stuff all day since I read the front page of the Wall street Journal!! I could not believe what I was reading. Just to fill some in on some fun facts, Verizon is investing some serious money for this fiber optic upgrade. Right now it costs them $1,490 per home to do, but they hope through more experience they can shave it down to $840 dollars very soon. The speeds are truly sensational. They say thta a 2 hour movie can be downloaded in under a "1" minute!!!

AT+T will be offering this service too very soon. They are still unwinding from the merger with SBC. Now the difference between Verizon and AT+T is that Verizon will bring the fiber optic cable right the the outside wall of your home, and then use standard cable wires to go the rest of the few feet resulting in very minimal loss, vs. AT+T will just be feeding the fiberoptic line to local points in cities and such and then going to individual houses via copper wires losing much more speed!!

Now once all this gets going, I believe that there will be some swwet package combining tv, phone, broadband, and even cell phone voip!! Things are going to be very interesting in the coming 5 years and I cant wait!!

 

hehe

Look at the download speed

 

Can you post the results of the vonage speed test?

http://www.vonage.com/help.php?article=497

I think I'm going to order the 15/2 service you have and then switch my phone service to Vonage.

 

Nice!s

 

I'm at work and our speeds here are MUCH faster than 15/2.

I'll do the test tonight at home if I can remember.

 

Did you get just the internet service? FIOS for the television is also supposed to be the bomb! As soon as its available here in Dayton NJ,I'll be changing over.I have heard nothing but fantastic reports about FIOS

 

I am getting my FIOS internet installed on the 30th of this month. I asked about FIOS Tv, but they haven't rolled that out in my area yet.

 

Stupid question time: can Internet servers serve up content fast enough to take advantage of this super duper speed? At our office we only have a T1, so to download something from our FTP must be like sucking through a straw fro your guys, right? Where are you finding content to keep up with your speed?

 

what cities is this available in right now....just a select few?

 

yes. check their website. they show map of Us with locations.

 

Just ordered mine today

 

Wish it was avail around here.

 

For internet thats supposed to be so fast their site is slow

 

Anyone have an answer for my question? What's the use of such a fat pipe when so many corporate sites are stuck at T1 or T3 speeds?

 

Anyone have an answer for my question? What's the use of such a fat pipe when so many corporate sites are stuck at T1 or T3 speeds? Seems like a 5000hp car on a highway of speed bumps.

 

Might be good for bittorrent

I'm going to order the 5/2 package for $35. I don't need a 15Mbit pipe until my kids get active on the net.

I'm more interested in the 2Mbit upload more than anything else.

 

Their arent many hosts out there on just a T1, if any at all. Most sites are hosted by compaines that have multiple T3's, OC3's etc. The bandwith is out there.

Personally, I will use this for newsgroups mostly. I'll actually end up saving money since I can drop my voice services from Verizon (needed to have it for DSL). The wife and I both have cell phones that work fine in the house. And since I'm prepaying for the year, its 39.95 a month, 1 mo free and no activation or install charge.

 

I thought Comcast bought out AT&T? Does this mean comcast will do this soon too? I sure hope so, 46 dollars a month for 3/256k down and up respectively sucks.