Verizon DSL?

[kosmo vinyl]

Am considering switching from Earthlink to Verizon for the lower price and an upgrade to FIOS when they get around to adding it for us less well heeled customers in PG county.  But I see nothing but horror stores about it and was wondering if it really is all that bad or whether people just like to complain..

[brennser]

judging from my neighbors its pretty bad.....we use RCN

[markie]

Mine is great. It did take a long time to get it set up, but snce then it has been flawless.

[chaz]

I've got Fios....it was sort of a nightmare at setup...typical administrative foul-up type stuff with Verizon which resulted in some downtime.  Actually though the problem was possibly due to confusion caused by my wife and  I both calling them during the order process.
 
 Since then though it's been totally solid and I don't remember one outage in the last 8 months or so (since the intitial hassles).  I work from home so I'm on it all day so I'd notice if it was dropping on me.
 
 Plus it is super fast.....I get about 4.7 mb down and 1.5 up.....that's a lot of porno!  And still much cheaper than cable....

[eltee]

Fine on my end. The set up was no sweat.

[vansmack]

Originally posted by MTB-Markie:
  Mine is great.

FiOS or DSL?

[markie]

Originally posted by vansmack:
   

Originally posted by MTB-Markie:
  Mine is great.

FiOS or DSL? [/b]

From the title of the topic I thought that was clear......
 
 DSL.
 
 They were useless at setting it up. It took an age then it started to work about a week before they bothered notifying me that it was working.
 
 All the complaints I see for verizon DSL are about set up. When and if you get set up the service seems great.

[vansmack]

Originally posted by MTB-Markie:
  From the title of the topic I thought that was clear......
 
 

Thanks.
 
 We're doing an independent study here about the penetration of Fiber Optic connections to the home.  I was pretty certain that FiOs was not yet available in the District and just wanted to make sure.

[ratioci nation]

Originally posted by vansmack:
 
 We're doing an independent study here about the penetration of Fiber Optic connections to the home.  I was pretty certain that FiOs was not yet available in the District and just wanted to make sure.

What about Portland?  And who would provide it?  Verizon doesnt recognize my address.

[vansmack]

Originally posted by pdx pollard:
 What about Portland?  And who would provide it?  Verizon doesnt recognize my address.

You're a Qwest territory.  Don't hold your breath for Fiber Optic.
 
 Right now it's only SBC/AT&T and Verizon that are rolling out Fiber Optic to the home, unless you live in a very smart municipality that set up Municipal fiber like Utah and a few others has done because the local phone company is taking it's own sweet time.

[ratioci nation]

Originally posted by vansmack:
  You're a Qwest territory.  Don't hold your breath for Fiber Optic.

guess i'll have to stay with comcast  

[markie]

Yeah, I went through the phone number search and it is "not currently available".
 
 I dont see how it would be much better for me right now....
 
 If T.V. channels started streaming their shows than that would be a different story.

[vansmack]

Originally posted by MTB-Markie:
  If T.V. channels started streaming their shows than that would be a different story.

You mean when, not if.
 
 And the only reason why they don't is because there is not market for it due to lack of connection to the home.  South Korea, Japan, most of Scandanvia, Singapore etc. already have it...

[markie]

Originally posted by vansmack:
 

You mean when, not if.
 
  [/b][/QUOTE]
 
 How do you pay for content in those countries?

[amnesiac]

How about FiOS vs. Comcast High Speed?