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LAN Party Forums => General Discussion => Started by: Agent4054 on June 19, 2007, 05:45:26 AM
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Hello 5/2 FiOS line. While it is still the lowest fios plan, I'd say 640KB/s down and 256KB/s up still kicks the crap out of my (late)DSL connection. The Verizon tech will be coming this morning to switch us over. In less than a year, I can foresee myself complaining about how slow 5/2 is. That's how it was when I switched from 56k to DSL :confused:
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In 5 days I'm switching from Verizon to Comcast (that triple play package thingy). I was planning on waiting out my problems with Verizon DSL (random connection loss, and when you're flying a plane in the middle of a battle it gets to be a little annoying) until FiOS came to my area but it's been over a year since this problem first started occuring. Maybe I'll switch back someday when it's here but after having DSL since 2001, you'd think they'd do more for a longtime customer.
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I have the 2MB up and 15MB down line, and I love it. I have had Verizon DSL before I switched over. I am not going back.
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Well that's good. Because once you switch from DSL to FiOS, you can't revert back.
But yeah. The speeds I'm getting are very refreshing. Only took the guy 3 hours(a little less actually) for the entire installation. The router they gave us is really nice(well in comparison to our old microsoft one anyways).
On a side note, when he was packing up, he got a call telling him where his next stop was. Apparently they said Coover street(a street parallel to mine), and he started freaking out. He asked me if this was Charles St., I says yeah. And he points to our street sign. Somehow, and I really do not know when that would've happened but our street sign was changed to Coover. I was up till 4am last night and did not hear or see(the sign is in clear view of my bedroom window) anything. Just a little weird.
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dude i used to do that in my old neighborhood! i would sneak out at like 2 in the morning and me and a friend would switch street signs! it was so funny... in a cruel sick kind of way.
anyway yeah, i'm on th 15/2 and i love it. i had comcast before and the difference is like night and day. i run servers out of my house alot so i needed the upstream. i HAD a problem with the router they gave me. some weird brand, that did wireless too. it would never do port forwards correctly, so i just ended up using it as a coax to ethernet bridge (they used fiber to coax because of MOCA i.e. fios TV) and i'm running a linux router for everything. i even got a 2mbit jump! i run at 17 to 18mbit down now! i stay steady at the 2mbit up though.
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Congrats, you are gonna love it.
GIRunit are you sure you didn't get the upgrade to 20/5? I got the 15/2 deal and a few months ago I got a letter saying I was now 20/5, no extra charge, thank you verizon.
I got myself a WRT350n (Running DD-WRT) because my old router only had a 10Mb WAN port and the actiontech router dies whenever you hit it with a ton of requests at the same time, searching for CS servers took me out for ~5minutes. You know you got some bandwidth to play with when a regular router cannot cut it.
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I moved a few months ago and got comcast triple play. I'm paying less now than I was for just cable and internet before. I saw this yesterday. New triple play subscribers get a free DS.
http://www.comcast.com/nintendo/
Once FIOS is available I need to look at how FIOS TV compares to Comcast HD. I really don't want to give up my TIVO. Hopfully a cheaper HD TIVO will come out or I'll have to wait for Comcast to ugrade to TIVO software.
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WTF!? I got comcast triple play about a month ago and now they're giving away a DS!