JeffBullard
join:2006-12-16
Houston, TX
| FiOS or RR cable in DFW
According to Time Warner, they have a 10/1 service already available in our area (I live in Las Colinas part of Irving). For concurrent cable subscribers the 10/1 service is 49.95 per month. I have not tried it in this area (Irving, TX) because of the Comcast/TW merger issues. But in Houston the RR service through Time Warner was great. My IP address only changed twice in about two years. There was only one outage in my area and that lasted only about 4 hours.
I have a fairly lengthy review and discussion about the FiOS service on this site. RR/Time Warner is a slightly better product IMO. FiOS formerly had a better price point but Verizon is raising prices - on their website the 15/2 package is now $49.95. The speed difference is slight (15/2 vs. 10/1) and you probably won't notice any difference unless you do a lot of large file UPloads. Another difference is port blocking: Verizon does block ports and Time Warner does not (in our area). This is only an issue if you want to have web pages hosted on your home comupter. |
