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[WA] FIOS in Shoreline, WA

Probably should post this here: »Frontier Communications since it's Frontier that is offering FiOS.

Understood. I posted my question here as it was also a critique of ISPs in this area. I will edit my original post to clarify.

I think you'll find that most people in the PNW who are using FiOS are not reading this forum... Hence my suggestion; but as you will.

reply to vulcan125
vulcan, would you like me to move this over to our Frontier forum for more opinions of your location and FiOS? If you do, just let me know and I can do that.

Sure. Thanks

reply to vulcan125
Moved in from Extended Pacific Northwest.

reply to vulcan125
I have Frontier FiOS in Redmond and have been quite pleased. Except for failure of equipment owned by me, the service has been quite solid. I'm on a slightly different setup, so my speeds are limited to 20/5, but I never fail to hit exactly what I'm paying for. You said just Internet, but I'll also comment that their TV service is also really good.

Frontier recently changed all billing and provisioning over to their in-house systems. There is no automated way to make any changes to your service; everything is over the phone. As long as you pick a service and stick with it, you'll be just fine. Frontier's customer service folks for FiOS are primarily in Everett, so that's a nice bonus.

reply to vulcan125
1. Make sure FIOS serves the home you are buying if it is that important.
2. FIOS internet service is excellent. Comcast is not great in my neighborhood which is in north Edmonds at the end of a trunk line.

reply to vulcan125
The Richmond Beach central office does have FIOS. You'd have to call in to find out if it's available at your particular address. You might try going to frontierwa.com to find out more.

reply to Chawk12

Re: [WA] FIOS in Shoreline, WA

reply to vulcan125
FIOS was deployed in that area late 2008/early 2009. All of the Richmond Beach exchange has GPON service which is about as advanced as Frontier currently gets.

So COAX from the outside box is how they would get it into the house for internet service, right?

Yes, it's fiber in the coax cable.

I'm trying to think what the name of the article was that I saw on Stop the Cap about this particular topic. I know technology exists to basically re-use the outside shielding of a cable and replace Copper found in Coax and Telephone wiring easily without having to re-run a completely new cable/trunk. It was basically insert a liquid into the trunk, have fiber on one end, and pull from the other end and you're wired up, so in essence, you have conduit right then and there.

Heh - I bet Comcast would love to get their dirty little hands on that technology...