Anybody tried the Verizon FIOS television service yet? Or maybe the 3-1 bundle? Looking for opinions specifically on the TV service as an option to cable.

If you got it, post your opinion.

Thanks.

 

I cant get it in Big Bear yet because I heard it takes a cell phone type tower to send the signal and there is not one up here yet. My friend sais it is the best and has had it for about 6 months.

 

It's fiber optic cable to your house, so I don't know why a tower would be required. Except to get the signal to the mountain, just like cable TV.

I don't like being an early adopter, but I may give this a try. I'm a Charter customer, and they are going BK11, which is okay except they don't have some channels I want and the cable boxes suck. The DVR box is pretty good though.

The FIOS has a DVR box where you just have one, and all the TV's in the house can watch what is recorded on it. I like that idea.

I won't switch my phone though. I like the copper line.

 

My sister and brother in law got fed up with Charter a little while back an went with the FIOS bundle. They have no complaints.

We have used the internet service for about 6 months, but not the TV or phone.

 

The FIOS internet? Or just Verizon high speed internet? Have you experienced any outages?

 

its not available here in Tempe, Az...

I wish it was, only other options are qwest and *** cable...a little more competition should bring down the price.

 

FIOS internet.
We have experienced no outages.

It's not as fast as it's played up to be, though.

 

They never are, but what you've got there is fast. About 4 times faster than a T-1 line down, and a little faster than T-1 up. Your ping times are pretty good too. Nothing wrong with that.

 

1650 down
280 up
29 ms ping
50mi

*** cable 1.5 mbps service...about $30 a month bundled with tv

 

That is what the Verizon store up here told me was the issue with us not having it yet. Who knows? All I know is I have a smoking deal with a bundle of the DSL and home phone for 25/month combined. Too bad Charter up here had us at 109/month for digital cable.

 

Ping, ping,ping, Whatever!! Good Afternoon Folk's

 

I am paying $109 a month for internet and digital cable with Dvr and 2 tiers...

no hbo, cinemax or other pay channels

 

Remember the fiber ends at the hub outside your house. As I understood the guy when he came here. They run the fiber in the street and from say the side walk to the TV it's still copper. Sure you get higher speed but really not true fiber until you run it in the home.$$$ And they will run HDMI cables from box to TV but as i said still lots of copper.

 

I have no idea what this means, but here goes. This is based upon the speedtest.net

4900 down
314 up
70 ms ping
100 mile

 

As I understand it, just from the web site, the fiber is already strung down the street. When you order, they run fiber from the street to a demarkation box on the side of your house. Usually where your phone already enters. Mine comes in underground. So it's fiber all the way to your house, but of course not inside your house. I think they can use all my existing coax for the TV. Steve's got me thinking about the internet now, but I need to know more about their router. I have my own network setup here and I don't want anything from them except 1 router, and it has to be compatible with my own router.