FIOS Installed - 15 Megabits Of Bliss
Today we had FIOS installed at Casa Del Lacey - fiber into the home.
Verizon put the fiber up on the poles a while ago, but only recently begun actually wiring up homes - I’ve been checking every week to see when I could get it.
Well, today was my lucky day when three guys in three trucks turned up to perform the install.
The installation basically consists of installing a fiber termination point in your home along with a battery backup. Your phone lines are switched to fiber at the same point, and the battery should give four hours of standby for the fiber driver - there be lasers in that there box…
They then strung Cat5 cable up to my office.
Anyhow, I now have fifteen Megabit down and two megabit up (confirmed by running the speed tests at Speakeasy) for the princely sum of $49.99 a month. A bargin.
I could have opted for the higher speed 30Mbps/5Mbps package at $179.95, but even I have my limits…
I’ll tell you what though, the switch from 3Mbps/768K to 15Mps/2Mbps was like crossing a tipping point where browsing the net felt like the servers were actually in my house.
It’s that fast.
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WOW. You are so lucky. I was work my nuts of to have that sort of speed. Do you have any download limits imposed? - that's cheap too $50 a month.
Welcome to the FiOS party. We've had it a few months now, and it still feels fast.
Congrats - enjoy your new fat pipe. I've had the 15/2 service for about a year now, and it's awesome. Great reliability, too - only one outage so far (yesterday, in fact, for a couple of hours).
Sometimes I go to speedtest.net and run a test just to see the little animated speed meter zoom up and get pegged at 14000-something Kbps. :-)
What kind of wireless router was provided? Is is a good one? What drawbacks have you found so far? That price does not include the phone service...right?
Darwin: No drawbacks so far - works great. It comes with some weird 10/100 router that also has a coax port - presumably for some future TV upgrade.
I just connected the fiber presentation to the supplied box, and then it to my normal wireless router. Worked fine.
And yes, the price doesn't include phone service.