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Has anyone had the new Verizon Fios installed in their house.

I now have Comcast but I am considering switching to Fios.

What happens during the install?
What equipment will they provide and what should I have?
What cabling should I do to prep for this?

I won't want to let a telephone or cable guy do any wiring in my house.
I just want them to plug in the equipment and turn it on.

I will be getting the phone, internet and tv services.

I think this means I will lose my copper line for my POTs telephone line.
The new telephone is over the fiber.
What happens during a power failure?
How about 911?

Anyone do this already?
 
Better?
I am thinking price, speed and the future capabilities of the fiber network.
 
tkb said:
Has anyone had the new Verizon Fios installed in their house.

I now have Comcast but I am considering switching to Fios.

What happens during the install?
What equipment will they provide and what should I have?
What cabling should I do to prep for this?
What happens is they send 2 monkeys to your house who talk your wife into letting them in. As she calls you and tells you they are drilling a hole in the wall you scream tell them to stop and do not drill any holes just as she tells you it is too late. When they hear you are on your way immediately they figure they better get the heck out of there asap so they drill a hole right from the livingroom out through the tongue and grove beveled cedar siding cut on a 45degree mitre they try to staple arouynd the chimney and chip the bricks all around. They pump a big wad of silicone into the hole where the cable goes into the cedar siding. They then go in to jack the cable and when they finish jacking they push the 8 inches of wire back into the wall which pulls the wad of silicone out of the hole and it slides down the side of the cedar siding. The tech gets your wife to sign a work order whigh says that all of the stuff he did he did not do and is ok with you. They then hop into thier van and quickly scoot off into the sunset minutes before you can get home and show them the error of thier ways. I cant wait untill someone asks me what happens when the direct tv guy comes to my house a month after I put a new roof on it. I will try to get pics of both
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Tim I have Verizon FIOS for about 3-months now. I live just outside Keller TX the first city in the country to get the service. As soon as I had it hooked up and working I fired CATV and Verizon wireline.

You will still have you CATV and POTS line to the house, they don't comeout remove anything. It will be up to you to move the wires and cables around, which is where your problems can begin.

For example if your current CATV and POTS line come into your home in different location, and Verizon installs the modem in a completely different location. It is up to you to re-run all your wiring to the modem.

In your case all Verizon is going to do is install a boc called a modem near an AC electrical outlet. They do come with battery back-up but they offer a few extended battery option in my area.

From the modem you connect you internal CATV, RJ11 and RJ-45 for your phone and internet.

There is no difference in POTS or 911 operations than you currently use now since it is supplied by Verizon wireline services. It is not like Mickey Mouse VOIP service like Vonage the Dog. You are still connected to a real PSTN switch at the CO.

The real difference is in Internet and CATV service. Depending on your internet option you select, you can purchase up to 30 Mb/s which makes a standard CATV service modem look like the ole dial-up service.

As for the CATV service you get whatever you want unlike CATV providers. Out is the block packaging of CATV. You no longer have to buy a block of channels you never use. You only pay for what you want. So if all you want is 5 channels, that is all you pay for. What is in is lots of HDTV if you have the equipment to use it. It is all digital, and anything you want. Like SATV except more reliable, more channels, and less expense.
 
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