Verizon Fiber Optic Broadband 5mbps/2mbps for 40 a month 15mbps/2mbps for 50 a month!

[JasonA]

I wish I could get this where I lived. Hell, i'd take cable or dsl if it was avaliable.

 

[Swanny]

I'll probably be another 10 years before it comes to my area.

 

[commemoratives]

Update:

Contractor marked installation route on Thursday and dropped the fiber optic cable in yesterday (Friday). Interestingly enough the fiber optic cable has a bonded copper wire for detection purposes.

 

[canalcrab]

Originally posted by: mamisano
Syosset, Long Island is now piloting this service. Should be available Island-Wide by 2006.

Massapequa is also getting fiber. According to a friend who pulls cable for Verizon both Syossett and Massapequa were considered "bad" co's with lots of problematic copper so they are upgrading these two co's first in this area.

 

[intogamer]

What about Boston MA? Verizon should do New England first, cause Comcast is dominating.

 

[jjm]

Verizon has been installing it throughout Newtown, PA the last few months.

 

[BurntCpu]

Originally posted by: intogamer
What about Boston MA? Verizon should do New England first, cause Comcast is dominating.

That's what I'm thinking

 

[cheesehead]

Wisconsin needs optical fiber. Last time I checked, Madison is soon to become a "wireless" city, and whoever lands the contract for all the Wi-Fi hotspots will be rolling in cash. Optical fiber's main advantage over, say, T1, is that the signal can be carried more than five times the distance without a repeater of some sort.
That, and the fact that I want 3x the speed of my current (cable) connection, for about the same price.

 

[hyeclass]

cant wait for this to come to LA, but will take forever, seems like there doing rural areas first then they will move on to bigger places.

 

[50]

Originally posted by: intogamer
What about Boston MA? Verizon should do New England first, cause Comcast is dominating.

Apparently Andover is getting it first! WTF! Who lives in andover?!?

 

[RideFree]

They probably have to dig up your infrastructure in order to lay the FO.
I say, "Hand me the jack-hammer!" (However, Concast is installing upgrades for free to 4000/384 (I think it's 384)
as soon as they complete the equipment upgrade in the respective areas.
I'll go from 3000/256 to the 4k plan for free. And 5000/768 (I think it's 768) if I want to pay extra.

 

[commemoratives]

RideFree -

Strangely enough my cousin is a general contractor in FL where they are installing FIOS, and yes they are "nicking" all sorts of other infrastructure on a daily basis. In the last few months when they were working around here I have noticed the need to reset the clock on my microwave every few weeks and my water went all chugga-chugga once too.

If it gets above 40 in the next few days I'll take a spin on my LittleWing and see how many people are actually getting it installed in my neighborhood. Should be pretty easy to tell by the paint markers. Honestly, other than the fact that there is allot of development in my area I don't understand why this is a FIOS test market. The demographic wouldn't seem to support significant adoption, but I could be wrong. I signed up for the 5000/2000 which was the low threshold offering...

 

[Glavinsolo]

The reason why hillsborough county is a test market is simple. It used to be GTE market and although Verizon is installing some of their own fiber, there was fiber that GTE laid back in the day. Also we have a very high middle class rate which are the majorities for services along the lines of tv, phone, and internet.

 

[Deadmanh]

so does anyone in the huntington beach area of CA have fios yet???? i mean the report said HB next right???

 

[Avalon]

Need this in Brevard county, FL, so badly! COME ON SPACE COAST!

 

[najames]

Hey Avalon, stop that!!! I live in Palm Beach Co, I'm a Boca Butt. I think we oughta get it first.

Seriously, I have Bellsouth 3Mps (actually 2.5Mps). I had a guy come out and check my place and got into a nice conversation with him, also a computer guy. He said this was as good as I could expect. I am over 18,000ft from the station, BUT they ran fiber very close and they connect to the house with copper. Bellsouth has plans to update to higher speed DSL and are piloting now he said. Here's a link. Give me a pair of 12Mps lines, uhhhhhhhh. Drool starting to form, must stop now.

http://telephonyonline.com/ar/...llsouth_reveals_plans/

 

[Venomous]

Originally posted by: Deadmanh
so does anyone in the huntington beach area of CA have fios yet???? i mean the report said HB next right???

I called and its not yet available. Im in Hunt Bch as well.. Roadrunner quietly raised our download speed up to 5 megabit however afte the FIOS announcement.

 

[najames]

Sorry, Double Post.

 

[commemoratives]

Got it installed today. Not surprisingly the Verizon test verified the 5/2. Ran a couple at DSL Reports and that pretty much confirmed the speed.

So far surfing the web it is really snappy. Newsgropups appear to be limited at the server

Anyone have a suggestion on a friskey news server provider?

*Edit* Just switched my profile to 500 topics and 500 messages per page... wow.

 

[Dallows]

I envy you guys, damn. that's fast. I want!

 

[fragged]

I actually had a chance to play around with this service. The infrastructure is already in place throughout parts of California, it's just not "available" yet.

The speeds were pretty much a consistent 13Mb/s downstream, and roughly 1.7Mb/s upstream. Pretty impressive, I must say.

Then again, if you put it all in perspective, this will be the first time speeds have jumped enough that people will actually have a reason to replace a 10Mb/s network card.

Guess I'll finally have to cough up the $15.00.

 

[Venomous]

The guys just finished stringing the fiber in my area of Huntington Beach. They said the install would take place in mid feb, where they come out to my house and do the pre-install. Cant wait!

 

[fragged]

Venom:

What part of HB are you in? I have availability at my office on Algonquin, but no availability at my house on Brookhurst/Adams.

 

[Horo]

they need to hurry and come up to Nor.Cali (Sacramento)!! i want this!

 

[intogamer]

:laugh: waiting for fios so I brag to my friends how my dsl owns cable:laugh: