FTTP - Striper Talk Striped Bass Fishing, Surfcasting, Boating

JohnR · 03-07-2006, 12:46 PM

My only problems with FTTP is that they are not ready with their TV offering yet, and compared to COX are more money for bandwidth (granted, cable shared across COX's VAN services and not point to point like Verizon)...

I have been debating it as it is in my town...

pops02 · 03-08-2006, 04:44 PM

There is a good article in todays Wall Street Journal about this. The paper states that Verizon will use the existing co-axle in the house, instead of running fiber in the house , to reduce cost by as much as $ 80.00 per house

oke: , and they go on to state that it wont really reduce the speed....yeah right....the re-use of the co-axle cable is B.S, as they are now taking away work from their work force. Verizon better get going, with AT&T's new aquisition of SBC. I thinks real soon you will see Verizon buying the local cable companies around here, like comcast, and adelphia, befor AT&T does, but that remains to be seen

TheSpecialist · 03-08-2006, 04:53 PM

Ok first they will run a fiberoptic drop to the house. They will run cat5e to set up a jack for a router for your computer. They will reuse the coax for the video, unless it is not up to specs. I am presently in a 2 week installation and maintenence class for it. The computer connections have been exstremely fast, with 20 computers working wirelessly on 1 router.

The video won't roll out right away because they have to negotiate franchise fees with each town first.

Wareham Ma will be wired by the end of the summer. Braintree, and Marshfield are on target and almost ready for phone and data rollout.

pops02 · 03-09-2006, 10:29 AM

Any word on Verizon hiring ?

JohnR · 03-09-2006, 12:24 PM

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Originally Posted by TheSpecialist

Ok first they will run a fiberoptic drop to the house. They will run cat5e to set up a jack for a router for your computer. They will reuse the coax for the video, unless it is not up to specs. I am presently in a 2 week installation and maintenence class for it. The computer connections have been exstremely fast, with 20 computers working wirelessly on 1 router.

The video won't roll out right away because they have to negotiate franchise fees with each town first.

Wareham Ma will be wired by the end of the summer. Braintree, and Marshfield are on target and almost ready for phone and data rollout.

That alone is not a good indicator of speed as 20 comps working wirelessly on a G connection are probably only realizing 2.5-3 megs of throughput (after overhead and the near exponential loss of available pipe) when 'putin on wireless networks - even a double G wouldn't give you 5 with all of those comps.

Those towns are interesting targets, do the others, besides Braintree, have their own municiple light compaines and provide internet as well?

TheSpecialist · 03-09-2006, 07:00 PM

You can go on verizons home page and look for employment oppertunities.

John it seems they are taking geographic areas served by on construction garage, and bouncing from a town covered by one installation garage, to a town covered by a different installation garage. I am no exspert on speed, but I know this stuff is very fast compared to other things I have seen. I know Abington, and Rockland will be done by the end of June, and I will be getting it. I hope they pick up the pace on getting the video in the towns.

crash · 03-09-2006, 10:01 PM

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Originally Posted by TheSpecialist

I know Abington, and Rockland will be done by the end of June.

sweet, looks like I'll be dumping adelphia at the end of june, thanks for the info Specialist

jugstah · 03-10-2006, 07:34 AM

I just got FTTP about 2 weeks ago, and I'm loving every minute of it here in Middleboro. The technician was excellent, and walked me through every step of it.

Be warned though, if you get FTTP with phone service, you'll have a battery pack installed in the basement or someplace close to a power source. The battery holds 8hours in case of an outage, and if it dies, your phone dies. However, the tech clued me in. You can get a special 12volt battery that holds up to 500hours of life.

But the FIOS/FTTP internet smokes Comcast cable for speed. And the Tech says TV will be out in Middleboro in the next couple of months.

And FIOS/FTTP is cheaper than Comcast internet. Go figure.