[geeks] Anybody having FIOS yet?

[Porkchop]

I got my folks on this when it came to the area they live in. As many 
of you I'm sure, I'm their 24x7 support contact for anything more 
technical than the waffle iron.

I was constantly getting reports that the system I left in place 5 
years ago (ye olde dial-on-demand router) was broken, so we went to 
DSL, which was also unreliable. Gave FIOS a go, a bit of a risk I'll 
admit, but over the last two months I've gotten 0 complaints.

The install wasn't bad either. They have premade lengths of fiber so 
they're not melting/glueing (and waiting) onsite. Its a single fiber 
which hooks into the OTN, which is about the size of a child's 
backpack. Excess cable is kept in a compartment in the back. We have 
it mounted in our basement on the same crapboard which holds our main 
breaker box, greywater overflow alarm, phone punch blocks etc. They 
also mounted a backup battery pack (12v, 14ah; 10 hours full 
operation, 2 hours 911-dialout-only) and the dlink router down there 
(on my request). They ran some cat5 up to a central/high point in the 
house which has the 802.11b bridge. There are still 3-4 open ports on 
the router in the basement if we ever need them.

I can't speak to speed, since I'm not there and they are not the 
heavy downloading types...but as far as the reliability goes, I'm 
sold.
-porkchop


>Been having it for 1 1/2 month now and love it. PPPoE sucks but don't 
>want to pay the extra bucks for a static ip.
>
>But hey 5MBit down / 2MBit up is really fun. Can download @ 550kb/s 
>while uploading at 190kb/s and nothing slows down.
>
>So far had no outage or any other issues with it. The install went 
>pretty smooth. They pulled a single strand fiber in a really thick. 
>Didn't even notice it until the day the installer put the OTN 
>outside. They say you have to use their d-link router but anything 
>talking pppoe will do so.
>
>-- atm
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