Integrator
Rock of the Marne
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join:2002-09-02
Keller, TX
| My FIOS install Hello all,
Just thought I would drop a line and tell you how the install went. I had the install scheduled for today the 25th. They came out yesterday and buried the fiber from the vault. They did a nice job on it too. The techs came out today and switched over my phone service from copper to the fiber, and they hooked up my internet service. They were friendly and they definitely knew what they were doing. The service is now in trials (this applies to anyone who has the service now in Keller). I agreed to fill out some surveys when they come out to get service now. They brought with them the d-link router. They support that and they do have the ability to check cable status and such from their end using your username and the password you set up when you set service up. The tech had to provision my line through his cell connected laptop. The laptop is what he uses to actually authorize your ONT on the network. The TV service won't be offered until next year.
Oh well, I am very happy and the total intsall after they buried the fiber yesterday, took less than 2 hours today.
speedtest:
2004-08-25 13:48:32 EST: 14679 / 1794
Your download speed : 15031536 bps, or 14679 kbps.
A 1834.9 KB/sec transfer rate.
Your upload speed : 1837109 bps, or 1794 kbps.
The pics are probably overkill but just wanted everyone to see what they are gonna get when they get FIOS.
Tom | |
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SixOfNine
Brake In A Ladylike Manner.
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join:2001-08-30
Sterling, VA | Re: My FIOS install Congrats. I hate you. 
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join:2002-11-30
Pittsfield, MA | Re: My FIOS install I am so F*#king mad I could eat my my keyboard,  I have 768 dsl from Verizon STILL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Have Fun!!! | |
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technick
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join:2000-12-16
Loganville, GA | Re: My FIOS install Be sure to brush after the keyboard meal... I hear it can lead to some wicked bad breath. | |
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| nauticax
join:2001-02-27
Germantown, MD | Re: My FIOS install I am so jealous!!! But congrats on the install! Those speeds look awesome! | |
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jsmarkbrown
Premium
join:2002-12-16
Baltimore, MD | Your upload speed is faster than my download | |
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BoobTECH
@192.115.x.x | Just out of curiosity... How much is your montly payment | |
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Lazarus
Slavin Away
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join:2002-06-18
Westby, MT
clubs: | I'm gonna go cry in the corner now. Those speeds are sick. | |
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| StEaLtHBuNnY
join:2002-10-12
Bergenfield, NJ | Re: My FIOS install omg....i hate uu sooo much omg omg omg....ur upload is sooo sick...and dunt get me started on your download yet..wow | |
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underscore
join:2004-04-20
Fairfax, VA | Hah, now you get to put in your profile "I Have ISP: Verizon FIOS" | |
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cablesurfer
join:2000-02-05
Thousand Oaks, CA | I've got a wooooooooooooooody ! | |
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Marilla
I Am My Own Arbiter
Premium
join:2002-12-06
Belpre, OH
| Pardon me while I salivate at the prospect of downloading an entire CD-Rom of data in 6 minutes. And yes, I understand it would likely be limited by the speed of the server downloading from; but still!
Here's hoping your trial goes well! Congrats, and thanks for posting!
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usacyberbob
@rdwd-ubr1.sfrn- | Re: My FIOS install RCN in Redwood City California has 3mbps internet and i downloaded a cd to my desktop in about 12 minutes. It speeds up faster the longer i am connected!
Do I really need fiber?
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| bigpapae35
join:2002-10-25
Great Neck, NY | Re: My FIOS install Those speeds should be illegal, its just not fair that someone can have something that someone else cant. Lets go back to communism. | |
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JakCrow
join:2001-12-06
Palo Alto, CA | I wonder why long it will stay at 14Mbps. Do they really have the network to handle everyone at that speed? I doubt it. | |
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| smcallah
join:2004-08-05
Home
| Re: My FIOS install said by JakCrow  :
I wonder why long it will stay at 14Mbps. Do they really have the network to handle everyone at that speed? I doubt it.
Obviously they aren't going to be buying 1:1 bandwidth for all of their customers and selling it as cheap as they are, so not everyone can get 15Mbps at the exact same time.
This is how the telco model has been for decades. Just like they don't expect everyone to pick up the phone at the exact same time, they don't expect everyone to use all the bandwidth at the same time.
If there is any provider out there that has 1:1 bandwidth for all of its customers, you're looking at a soon to be dead provider, if it's not already. | |
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| nietsni3
join:2002-12-06
Philadelphia, PA | for the people of DSLreports's sake, plz abuse it to the best you can.
and btw, i fvkcing hate you!!!
congratz | |
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| b00gz
join:2004-08-29
Dublin, OH | Verizon is getting ready to upgrade the speeds for testing purposes to 30mb/s by 6mb/s :-D ... I can't wait til this is available everywhere | |
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| | AJ023
join:2001-12-25
Forest Hills, NY | Re: My FIOS install 30MBPS only with FIOS only with Verizon and only for $199 a month! Cheaper than a T1! | |
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| b00gz
join:2004-08-29
Dublin, OH
1 edit | -- Sorry for the double post | |
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| VZInstructor
join:2004-10-12
Southlake, TX
| The network will handle this speed because it's fiber from the home to the central office. From the CO, it hooks directly into the internet. The only place to slow it down is the server that they would be accessing. I have been teaching FTTP for over 2 years for Verizon. My training center is training all of the techs that are installing the service in Texas. The customers are amazed at what they get when we are done with the install and all for $39.95 a month for 5M download and 2M upload. They can get 15M and 3M for $49.95 and if they are really hardcore into gaming, 30M and 5M for $199.95 per month. Wait until video is available!!! Coming soon to your neighborhood if you are a Verizon customer. | |
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| | jbjetta
Premium
join:2004-07-23
Laurel, MD | Re: My FIOS install
soon is such a subjective word. if VZ does what it is known to do, I will be the last place off my CO to be upgraded.
So I have a few years before im willing to get all hyped up about this new VZ offerings comming. | |
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| | lmac103
join:2001-08-04
Trenton, NJ | Are there any restrictions with the 15/5 service? Are servers allowed? | |
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join:2004-12-21
Columbus, OH
| Re: My FIOS install said by lmac103 :Are there any restrictions with the 15/5 service? Are servers allowed? What kind of server?
Pointless torun a server from a PPPoE connection, because your IP changes every 24 hours..... | |
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Woof Woof
I Miss Brother Iz
join:2004-09-01
Keller, TX | Re: My FIOS install Changes every 24 hours? I'm at 3 weeks and counting. My last change was only because a reboot of the router caused by my changing wireless channels. | |
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join:2004-12-21
Columbus, OH | Re: My FIOS install your router shouyld refresh every 24 hours, and should pull a diffrent IP everytime. That is the reason Verizon is set up for PPPoE, for secrity reasons, they want you to pull a diffrent IP everytime | |
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Woof Woof
I Miss Brother Iz
join:2004-09-01
Keller, TX
| Re: My FIOS install What are you basing this on? Sure, an ISP can reset it whenever they like, and maybe there are routers that do it, but I have yet to encounter either. I've had SBC PPoE, various flavors or ISDN (PPP) and now Verizon FIOS (PPoE) and none have changed IP addresses unless I lost power or tinkered with the router/modem.
Maybe I have just been lucky, but since we are talking about FIOS, and I have FIOS, it doesn't renew every 24 hours with my Linksys Router. Believe me, I would know... I check it every few days.
Of course the first thing I check on the router is to make sure it is set to not idle disconnect. | |
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Joe Schmoe Texas
@mindspring.com
| I wish I could say I hate you, but I work with 3 OC48s, now since I have access to these, I know what bandwidth costs, I don't see this lasting at all. I keep thinking about what my high school economics teacher used to say, "There is no such thing as a free lunch, someone has to pay." This is unfortunatly true, while you may be able to get this at a cheap price since you are a resident, buisness owners are being charged for T1s at 1.5mb at rates that are sometimes 10 times as much. This is how we can burst to these speeds on our cable modems and dsl lines, and apparently now fiber to the curb, small buisness pays for it. I will definatly have to re-negotiate some contracts if this becomes the norm... wtf am I saying, I do hate you. | |
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Guspaz
Guspaz
Premium,MVM
join:2001-11-05
Montreal, QC
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| Re: My FIOS install I have a server that I pay $49 US per month for. It comes with 1200GB/mth of bandwidth. Obviously using up 130GB in a month on a connection that costs the same as my server isn't going to bankrupt the ISP.
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finalmillenium
@dsl.gen
| Verizon owns the largest fiber optic connection in the world. Several OC 512 lines as of 3 years ago. With the new advancements in fiber transmission tech. the old fiber can be upgraded to over OC 1024 per line, not per trunk. SO yes they have the backend to support it | |
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mboy
Premium
join:2001-04-13
Little Falls, NJ | Yeah they do.
BTW, what is their TOS on hosting servers and such? I will drop OOL for the 15/2 for the same price in a heartbeat!
I probably won't have it avail to me for a couple of years tho. | |
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Shuttle832
@verizon.net
| Actually they do, The FIOS network is using DWDM and the front end is a Passive Optical Network, hence the only choke point becomes the off load of the fiber onto the CO network. The CO network on the other hand consist of the OLT, the aggregation Switch/Router, and the PSTN gateway device. 14Mbps is nothing as compared to the top speed of this network, and with DWDM being used the amount of traffic needed to actually slow this network down is more then what people can do today. if more bandwidth is needed they just would have to assign the traffic to another wavelength of light and the wavelength would act as an entirely new network. They are now dealing in wavelengths of light determining bandwidth not time or frequency as confined by the speed of electrons through a solid conductor (sub velocity of light). In any event they have the bandwidth to support the 32 customers per splitter unit. | |
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The_Fixer
@Dial1.Wee
| bandwith? uhm, i donno if anyone has mentioned this so you might have missed it... ITS FIBER DUMBASS. oh, but you say the CO might not have enough bandwith? Uhm, are you aware the national backbone is only made out of 3 fiber lines and verizon usually has 2 fiber lines from location to loacation. i mean, it did almost put lucent out of buisness but, hey ITS FIBER DUMBASS.
like, totally, it travels on light and stuff?!?!!
btw...your fiber is faster than my dorm connection was last year, and your upload is faster than my dedicated is now (im cheap) | |
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VZFios
@verizon.com | As a Verizon employee for Fios yes we do  And thats not the top speed we offer | |
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| Glass2u
join:2004-12-24
35364 | Yes they do, and then some. The overhead on FIOS is unreal.
I saw the Kellerpoint Gamelab setup and they had 14 countem...I said 14, 30 meg systems all running to one room.
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join:2002-12-08
Beverly Hills, CA
| Re: My FIOS install how long does it take for the whole process take to be done with? Verizon started laying the fiber down on the 23rd of dec and i havent seen them since. For instance once they are down laying the fiber he told me that are going to have splicers splice to the house once that is down how much longer til i can start using their service? | |
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join:2004-12-24
35364
| Re: My FIOS install Overlay can be unpredictable timewise due to permits, access to easements, obstructions, engineering problems, etc.
Once the distribution network is fully installed, spliced and tested, they seem to get right about the business of selling FIOS.
Keller started selling to the public at about 85% to 95% completion of infrastructure, but it was a special case I think because that's where it all started for them.
Verizon is putting forth a monster effort to get it rolled out as fast as possible, far as I can tell. They are swarming around like flies laying fiber, splicing fiber, installing FIOS in homes.
Hang in there. | |
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bs259
Premium
join:2000-08-19
Little Neck, NY
| Re: My FIOS install For anybody who is interested I have started a new topic thread cable (docsis 3.0) vs FIOS at the following link please feel free to visit and post your thoughts.
»[TWC] cable (DOCSIS 3.0) vs verizon (DSL,, FIOS) | |
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google2
join:2004-02-04
South Beloit, IL
clubs: | Very impressive - wish I had that kind of setup. | |
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rbrugman
join:2002-09-22
Marquette, MI | What kind of pings are you getting with your new fiber install? I'm incredibly jealous, as is everyone, because we are the unfortunate 99% that can't get FIOS
Robert | |
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alien9999999
Your Head Looks Nice
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join:2002-05-21
B-3000 | I HATE YOU!!! i got downgraded instead to +-300KB/s download! | |
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wwefan2003
join:2003-08-06
Monroeville, PA | Re: My FIOS install Congrads Dude. | |
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npln
Us Army
join:2000-07-17
San Francisco, CA | Congrats!!! HUA!!!! | |
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58483323
Gurt me
join:2003-06-23
Normal, IL | Re: My FIOS install Are you going to write an ISP review for Verizon FIOS?  | |
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Integrator
Rock of the Marne
Premium
join:2002-09-02
Keller, TX
| Look, it isn't all good. It is hell trying to find a decent speed test site that will give me accurate results!!!:D
The "trial" period means that the service is at a reduced cost and that I am required to return the surveys. They have also given the a dedicated tech support person who called me immediately after install and gave me her extension.
I talked to her and the installers and everyone seems to be on the same page when I ask what I am a limited to. They say that there are no limitations on the line. I can run whatever services I want off of it. I don't know if that actually is true or not, the TOS booklet they gave was monstrous. I am not going to read that damn thing unless aliens come down from the sky, and I have to lock myself in the closet. | |
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| socool
join:2003-10-08
Saint Petersburg, FL |  Re: My FIOS install
I would like to see what they will and Will not allow once the enforce the TOS. I am about to get it in Tampa. | |
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| | pyrrhusmj4
join:2004-11-11
Keller, TX
| Re: My FIOS install said by socool :do you know where I can get a copy of the TOS for FIOS? I would like to see what they will and Will not allow once the enforce the TOS. I am about to get it in Tampa. »www.verizon.net/policies/vzcom/tos_popup.asp
The exact same TOS used for all of VOL's residential services. | |
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