fiber internet

[PRR]

Ya know.... this looks like my internet speeds. Jammed-up all evening as the local kids watch movies and text each other. Lots of spare data in the wee hours after midnight.

Which reminds me. Anybody get Fiber Optic Internet? They are actually hanging 'wire' (black plastic stuff) here, apparently to compete with the cable-innernet operator Spectrum(boo). Spectrum is scared: they nominally bumped my speeds by 6X last year (really barely 2.5X average). Can they bring it under the driveway? How many power plugs does the gear need? I think I can bring it into the foyer E-Z, and jump ethernet from there to the cellar patch-panel. But it is all new to me. And Google is not helpful.

[acheld]

Anybody get Fiber Optic Internet?

Have had Fios for years.   It is expensive, but amazing fast and incredibly reliable. (My other option is Comcast . . .).    Friends and family who have migrated to fiber around the country all have had good luck with it.  The co-ops and locally run service providers tend to be least expensive, and usually very good service.

Fiber runs terminate in an "ONT," normally mounted inside your home.  This does require power, often via a wall wart. The ONT will have an RJ-45 jack, from which you can run an ethernet cable to your router's WAN connector.

It's actually very simple from a consumer standpoint compared to prior installs.  My other half screams when I say that, but it's true.

Yes, installers have to deal with driveways all the time.

If you can get fiber, do it!  You won't look back . . .

[Lectroid]

Agree with @acheld about Fios.  The performance is much faster.  Once it's set up, you'll love it.  I wish I could say the same about dealing with the Verizon mothership, they aren't very customer-centric to say it nicely.    But once they actually hook you up, the service is very reliable.

[shooter]

Anybody get Fiber Optic Internet?

here they are fibering up the old copper phone lines, musta laid a couple hundred miles of pipe along the backroads this year.  guessing the contract will run out before they make it this far 

[PRR]

Well, nevermind.

#1-- Fidium forces you to use their gear. Which in this case pretty much forces the box to the cellar, where I used to have the cable box. So most decisions are predetermined.

#2-- In the last month there are reports that Consolidated Telephone customers are being charged $200 for Fidium fiber Installation. (Fidium is a branch of Consolidated.) Yet non-customers get the Free Installation. Bogus.

[shooter]

I was a DirectTV customer, the TV said become a customer, get a year free.  I called said wanted my year free, they said, um, but.  I said cancel me.  we settled on 10% off for the next year.  Those days are long gone.  customers are not worth bothering over anymore.