November 24
Verizon FiOS Installation
I've had Verizon FiOS for almost 3 years now - yep, I'm an early adopter and my neighborhood was one of the first VZ FiOS areas in Texas. It is a great service. The installation went very smooth. First fiber was trenched from the underground box in my neighbors yard to the side of my house where the old copper phone line came to the house. Then a couple later techs came out and installed the ONT (optical network terminal), the big gray box, on the side of my house. The ONT is connected to the existing phone wires. A new Cat5 ethernet cable was ran from the ONT to my the router for Internet service. Also, a battery pack was installed inside the house and plugged into a outlet. This provides 8 hours of battery back-up for the ONT. Battery back-up for the router and PC's is the customer's responsibility. The Internet service has been great with FiOS - super reliable, very fast. No issues with the kids playing games or downloading music at the same time. Individual web pages don't seem much faster than my old DSL service, the co slowdowns for the whole house when everyone is using the connection. I think that's the big difference. It even allowed me to go with a
Packet8 VoIP Phone Service for even greater savings. I'm hooked and won't every go back!