FIOS test

[SUBMAN1]

My first post from my new inet connection. Its only 15 MB/sec right now, but I think I'll do the 25 MB/sec upgrade and see how fast that is.

-S

[Sailor Steve]

I responded as soon as I read this. Is that fast enough?:88)

[antikristuseke]

Do you actualy utilize that bandwith or is it more like a dick extension?

[AVGWarhawk]

I have FIOS. I'm happy with it. Plenty fast for me. The rest of the house is wired with FIOS.

[SUBMAN1]

Do you actualy utilize that bandwith or is it more like a dick extension?Do you even need to ask that question? :D How long have you known me on this board? I see your point though. Some people have no idea what they have.

Now I need to get all the damn spray paint off my lawn and rocks, and driveway!!! They spray paint everything for gas lines and comm lines, etc.

-S

[SUBMAN1]

I have FIOS. I'm happy with it. Plenty fast for me. The rest of the house is wired with FIOS.I'm going to finish it off myself. Verizon was going to charge me $99 a drop for Cat5e. I'll drop Cat6 for the cost of the cable myself. I need two drops to the TV from my media server is about it for now.

-S

[antikristuseke]

Do you actualy utilize that bandwith or is it more like a dick extension?Do you even need to ask that question? :D How long have you known me on this board? I see your point though. Some people have no idea what they have.

Now I need to get all the damn spray paint off my lawn and rocks, and driveway!!! They spray paint everything for gas lines and comm lines, etc.

-S

For some strange reason asking that seemed humorous a moment ago, i blame my 38C fever.

[FIREWALL]

Do you actualy utilize that bandwith or is it more like a dick extension?


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[August]

I have FIOS. I'm happy with it. Plenty fast for me. The rest of the house is wired with FIOS.I'm going to finish it off myself. Verizon was going to charge me $99 a drop for Cat5e. I'll drop Cat6 for the cost of the cable myself. I need two drops to the TV from my media server is about it for now.

-S

How much are you paying a month for Verizons fios?

[SUBMAN1]

How much are you paying a month for Verizons fios?Its part of a package deal, but about $35 to $38 a month i think.

-S

[NEON DEON]

Do you actualy utilize that bandwith or is it more like a dick extension?Do you even need to ask that question? :D How long have you known me on this board? I see your point though. Some people have no idea what they have.

Now I need to get all the damn spray paint off my lawn and rocks, and driveway!!! They spray paint everything for gas lines and comm lines, etc.

-S

Subman I am sure you have a lot of ------


Digital

Internet

Connection

Knowledge


:ping: :ping:

[August]

How much are you paying a month for Verizons fios?Its part of a package deal, but about $35 to $38 a month i think.

-S


I'm paying 38 per month for just DSL. What else do you have to buy in this package?

[SUBMAN1]

Subman I am sure you have a lot of ------


Digital

Internet

Connection

Knowledge


:ping: :ping:Do I detect a little bit of anomosity towards me here? :D

-S

[SUBMAN1]

How much are you paying a month for Verizons fios?Its part of a package deal, but about $35 to $38 a month i think.

-S

I'm paying 38 per month for just DSL. What else do you have to buy in this package?I just bundled it up with my phone service for free calling in the US/Canada for $79 a month. I might switch that to VOIP at some point, but I really don't want my phone messing with my inet speeds.

The fastest they offer is 30 down / 15 up, though you would have to buy a biz package for this. For home pricing, fastest speed is 25/15. Slowest they offer is 5/2.

The greatist advantage - you get faster than cable speeds, and you don't have ot share the pipe with your neighbor. That is the biggest thing I hate about cable - when all the kids get out of school, your inet slows to slower than any DSL line. I'd keep DSL over cable any day though due to lower latencies provided and non shared pipe, regardless if it is slower than cable - but this is off topic now.

-S

[AVGWarhawk]

I have FIOS. I'm happy with it. Plenty fast for me. The rest of the house is wired with FIOS.I'm going to finish it off myself. Verizon was going to charge me $99 a drop for Cat5e. I'll drop Cat6 for the cost of the cable myself. I need two drops to the TV from my media server is about it for now.

-S
How much are you paying a month for Verizons fios?

I have FIOS TV, computer and telephone service. My cost is $125.00 per month. Unlimited long distance calling, internet service (the speed is nice), TV is the basic package. We do not watch movies much and if we want to there is video on demand. Most movies are $3.99 and a lot are free. It does us no good to pay for HBO or Cinemax. We do not watch these channels but we can order a movie from them if we want. Overall, by switching to all their services I saved about $50.00/month over my old way with separate services for TV, internet and phone. Plus, just one bill a month that is always the same amount give or take a few dollars so budgeting is a bit easier.

[AVGWarhawk]

I just bundled it up with my phone service for free calling in the US/Canada for $79 a month. I might switch that to VOIP at some point, but I really don't want my phone messing with my inet speeds.

The phone on my FIOS has no effect on my FIOS internet or vise versa. They all play nice together.

[SUBMAN1]

I have FIOS TV, computer and telephone service. My cost is $125.00 per month. Unlimited long distance calling, internet service (the speed is nice), TV is the basic package. We do not watch movies much and if we want to there is video on demand. Most movies are $3.99 and a lot are free. It does us no good to pay for HBO or Cinemax. We do not watch these channels but we can order a movie from them if we want. Overall, by switching to all their services I saved about $50.00/month over my old way with separate services for TV, internet and phone. Plus, just one bill a month that is always the same amount give or take a few dollars so budgeting is a bit easier.I did the $79 for unlimited calling to US and Canada + I got the 15/2 package. I went Direct TV since Comcast is encrypting all their digital content, making it incompatible with Media Center 2005, and I can't have that. So I went with Direct TV. I got an unlisted package for $19 a month, and I get 300 or so channels (100 of them are XM Sat radio only though) which includes Encore Stars and Showtime. I think the Showtime is a trial however and expires in a few months.

Anyway, I worked it for less than $100 a month for all 3 services.

-S

PS. Direct TV will work fine for all media recorders in the future by the way. Microsoft is making sure of that - http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060105-5913.html - I wouldn't use any other service now because of that. Any Media Center or Media recording device, such as a Tivo, works fine with DTV.

PPS.
The phone on my FIOS has no effect on my FIOS internet or vise versa. They all play nice together.It has an effect on ping times for sure.

[AVGWarhawk]

PPS. Quote:
Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk
The phone on my FIOS has no effect on my FIOS internet or vise versa. They all play nice together.

It has an effect on ping times for sure.

I see no effect. My wife is on the friggin phone all the time...hence the unlimited calling deal;). I notice no effect when she is gabbing away.

[SUBMAN1]

PPS. Quote:
Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk
The phone on my FIOS has no effect on my FIOS internet or vise versa. They all play nice together.

It has an effect on ping times for sure.
I see no effect. My wife is on the friggin phone all the time...hence the unlimited calling deal;). I notice no effect when she is gabbing away.There is no way for it not to effect time sensitive packets - mainly online game play. You probably get double the ping times when she is on the phone, espcially since phone packets are also time sensitive and probably have priority since you probably have a QoS router to deal with it.

-S

[August]

Thanks fellas. I may have to make the switch to fiber.

[SUBMAN1]

Thanks fellas. I may have to make the switch to fiber.You must. That is if you can get it yet. It is starting to appear in most of the US though, but it is defintely not everywhere yet.

-S

[PeriscopeDepth]

How much are you paying a month for Verizons fios?Its part of a package deal, but about $35 to $38 a month i think.

-S

Daaaamn. Comcast is charging me $40+/month for 1.5 MB/S. Add that to the fact that I generally despise them, I see a switch in my future.

PD

[SUBMAN1]

Daaaamn. Comcast is charging me $40+/month for 1.5 MB/S. Add that to the fact that I generally despise them, I see a switch in my future.

PDSounds like you are getting gouged! I was only spending $29 a month on 3.0D/1.5U for DSL. Beat up the sales guy till he spills his guts on special deals.

For example - I beat up my Comcast rep to the point where I was paying $9.99 a month for basic cable. They upped it to $13 recently before I just made the switch to Direct TV, but still, thats a palatable price for something that should be free. If I'm paying for TV service, I'd at least expect no commercials. If I were paying $50 a month for TV like some crazy people do, then I'd demand not to have to watch commercials! :x

Oh - I forgot - My MCE 2005 system makes it so I don't have ot watch commercials! :D

-S

[PeriscopeDepth]

Daaaamn. Comcast is charging me $40+/month for 1.5 MB/S. Add that to the fact that I generally despise them, I see a switch in my future.

PDSounds like you are getting gouged! I was only spending $29 a month on 3.0D/1.5U for DSL. Beat up the sales guy till he spills his guts on special deals.

For example - I beat up my Comcast rep to the point where I was paying $9.99 a month for basic cable. They upped it to $13 recently before I just made the switch to Direct TV, but still, thats a palatable price for something that should be free. If I'm paying for TV service, I'd at least expect no commercials. If I were paying $50 a month for TV like some crazy people do, then I'd demand not to have to watch commercials! :x

Oh - I forgot - My MCE 2005 system makes it so I don't have ot watch commercials! :D

-S

No kiddin'! My girlfriend's been bugging me for a few weeks now to talk to Comcast and see if I can get our bills lowered. I guess this weekend OPERATION COMCAST FALL commences.

And how do you like Direct TV? I've been wanting to get it as soon as I move out of this damn apartment complex.

PD

[AVGWarhawk]

PPS. Quote:
Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk
The phone on my FIOS has no effect on my FIOS internet or vise versa. They all play nice together.

It has an effect on ping times for sure.
I see no effect. My wife is on the friggin phone all the time...hence the unlimited calling deal;). I notice no effect when she is gabbing away.There is no way for it not to effect time sensitive packets - mainly online game play. You probably get double the ping times when she is on the phone, espcially since phone packets are also time sensitive and probably have priority since you probably have a QoS router to deal with it.

-S

I'm not sure Subman. You have more technical know-how then I do for sure. All I know is, if I pay on time they leave it running. ;)

[AVGWarhawk]

Thanks fellas. I may have to make the switch to fiber.You must. That is if you can get it yet. It is starting to appear in most of the US though, but it is defintely not everywhere yet.

-S

Verizon has committed billions in getting FIOS just about everywhere in the US. They are banking on FIOS to be the future in transporting data and I think they are right about that. Anyway, I'm happy with it. They came in and did all the wires, set up the boxes for the TV and programmed all the remotes to run the TV, FIOS box, DVD and VCR. One remote for all! I came home and was ready to enjoy. No fuss and no muss. I was quite pleased really.

[SUBMAN1]

No kiddin'! My girlfriend's been bugging me for a few weeks now to talk to Comcast and see if I can get our bills lowered. I guess this weekend OPERATION COMCAST FALL commences.

And how do you like Direct TV? I've been wanting to get it as soon as I move out of this damn apartment complex.

PDKind of tricky when they already have you as a customer and you are already paying for a much more expensive package. Good luck on getting it lowered though.

DTV - works. I have strong sat signals though. I get about 95% sig strength, and 85% is supposed to be great. Too many channels to bother with too. I don't watch enough TV to justify what I've got. All I really care about though is PBS / Sci-Fi/ and History Channel. Wife likes other stuff, but as long as I have those 3, I'm good to go. What to do with the other 100 chan? Dunno. My TV watching time in a given week is maybe only a few hours. Rather be taking over the world in Rome Total War or something.

-S