Suprise, Suprise...

[rh71]

I have FIOS now but those mailers came like 6 months before they were actually on my block doing the cables. False advertising FTL. All the towns around me already had it for nearly two years... when I got that mailer... I said to myself... I'll believe it when I see it.

 

[mb]

Originally posted by: E equals MC2
Fios is just a different format and is a hype right? Meaning my dad already gets full HD through Comcast but he's convinced VZFios would provide even BETTER quality pictures of the same channel.

I think that's ridiculous unless I'm in the dark. Can you verify?

fios HD >>>>>>> Comcast HD.

Comcast compresses the hell out of their HD. It looks blocky in fast moving scenes. Verizon on the other hand is always stunningly clear. Even standard def looks better on fios.

 

[rh71]

^ FIOS HD is crisper than Cablevision HD to me.

 

[Gibson486]

Originally posted by: Lothar

Originally posted by: Gibson486

Originally posted by: aphex

Originally posted by: waggy

Originally posted by: Lothar
Verizon FiOS (Phone, Internet, and TV) is coming to town. YEAH BABY!!!!!
About freaking time.

You can bet I'll be calling the cable splicing tech first thing tomorrow morning while I'm at work.
I've already put his business card in the lab coat that I'll be wearing tomorrow.

ahhh you fricken lucky bastard! i wish i could get fios

Its even worse here, EVERY DEVELOPMENT AROUND ME has Fios, except mine.

You live in a condo? I am in the same situation. Apparently, they have to go through your condo association to do everything, so they do condos last.

With the amount of restrictions I keep hearing about condos/HoA on ATOT, why do people even bother to choose them?
What exactly are the benefits of living in a condo?
I surely wouldn't buy a house in which I won't have full control.

not everyone buys a condo. I rent one. To me, it's liek any other apt. Would I ever buy one? Only if I lived in the middle of city of boston ( Ilive in the boring city of natick now). Other than that, I would just rent it.

 

[Qacer]

FIOS TV is okay. I've had it for almost a year and I hate the menus. When I try watching a recorded show or go through an On Demand listing, the menus have a tendency of freezing up for a few seconds. It not only happens to my TV, but also on my parents' TV. They live about 10 minutes away.

Plus, Verizon really needs to improve on getting the set top boxes to read the IR remote signals a little better. With my old Brighthouse cable subscription, I can point the remote any where and the box would be able to pick up the signal. With FIOS TV, I have to point the remote directly at the box.

FIOS Internet, on the other hand, is a different story. I am satisfied with it. The only thing that sucks is the Actiontec router wireless range. I had to chain a firmware modified Linksys WRT54G router to take advantage of faster and longer wireless connections. Solely using the Actiontec wireless feature only limited me to a few feet, and streaming DivX movies via wireless from another local computer was painfully choppy. This was all fixed using a Linksys router.

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: ObiDon

Originally posted by: moshquerade

Originally posted by: andylawcc
a spell checker?

he likely spelled it just like he pronounces it.

like gomer pyle?

so much wasted on these kids even when it's still syndicated.

 

[Chaotic42]

You suck. They redid all of the buried lines here after Katrina... They just buried the same old type of crap over again. We will never get FiOS.

 

[JS80]

Originally posted by: flxnimprtmscl

Originally posted by: Pabster

Originally posted by: flxnimprtmscl
I really don't understand wth anyone would do with that much bandwidth. Maybe that's just me, though.

Get a few hundred gigs to backup remotely and you'll understand. Fast. :laugh:

HDDs are cheap. Unless you're worried about theft or fire why would you opt for remote backup?

Oh yea that's right HDDs never fail.

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: JS80

Originally posted by: flxnimprtmscl

Originally posted by: Pabster

Originally posted by: flxnimprtmscl
I really don't understand wth anyone would do with that much bandwidth. Maybe that's just me, though.

Get a few hundred gigs to backup remotely and you'll understand. Fast. :laugh:

HDDs are cheap. Unless you're worried about theft or fire why would you opt for remote backup?

Oh yea that's right HDDs never fail.

He should sell his idea to every Fortune 500 out there, the money they'd save on backup's offsite would be insane.

Oh, he'd need to rewrite some SOX compliance and stuff first.

 

[nerp]

I have FIOS. It's nice. I read somewhere that they're boosting my 20/5 to 50/20. That would be pretty spiffy. Bandwidth is essentially a non-concern now and a download or streaming video won't affect anyone else on the network. Grabbing files from MS's servers and Steam is pretty impressive, too.

I live in a fairly rural area in the Northeast in Rhode Island. The main reason we got it is because Cox has had a monopoly on cable TV service for years and years (used to be Heritage Cablevision in the 90s). Verizon is being extremely agressive in this area and they had to do some serious infrastructure work to get the lines here for NOTHING. Cox wanted to have us pay $15,000 to run cable from the street down our dirt drive along several poles.

Before FIOS, we were going with DirectTV for tv and subpar DSL from Verizon in a weird package of sorts. I still think it's funny that Cox wanted us to pay that much money to run cable here when Verizon was willing to hook us up.

 

[Regs]

Originally posted by: E equals MC2
Fios is just a different format and is a hype right? Meaning my dad already gets full HD through Comcast but he's convinced VZFios would provide even BETTER quality pictures of the same channel.

I think that's ridiculous unless I'm in the dark. Can you verify?

I would assume that most of the quality comes from the source and not just the format or median they are on. Most of these shows are just formatted with 16:9 res and aren't really hi-def, though I must admit, at least better than being stretched out and pixilated on a lcd or plasma.


It's more or less like the internet. Your download speed is only going to be as good as how fast the source can deliver it to you (which is why they offer you more for d/l). It's the upload speed that is more important and is most used. Fundamentally, it's a very good progression that they now offer the same upload as their download as users with only half the speed for upload compared to their download which can only download as fast as others can send (upload).

Im sure I could of wrote that better, but it's 8 in the morning, and I just don't care right now.