Bandwidth...

[jsbowden]

Verizon is actually delivering a full 15mbps sustained. Any time it seems. It's...nice. It's fast. Sometimes, it's even beyond what they tell me I should expect. I've seen upwards of 2.2MBps, which is a bit beyond what 15mbps can deliver.

Once again, I find myself having to say nice things about a telco. This is the second time in as many years. Someday, I may hold them in something less than contempt as the default state.

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[mcswan.livejournal.com]

I have had surprisingly little issue with Verizon's broadband. I've been with them for well over a year, now.

Their FIOS TV, on the other hand, is a completely different story. The service is ok, I get a little more pixellation issues than I would like, but it's usually very short lived.

One issue seems so mind numbingly stupid that its level of ineptitude pushes it far past the normal level of irritability: for the love of God, tell me, when 2 separate dish companies (Dish & DirectTV) can figure out caller ID for the tv, why a PHONE company can't?

[jsbowden.livejournal.com]

I haven't noticed anymore pixelation with FiOS TV than I did with cable.

What is this CID for the TV you speak of?

[mcswan.livejournal.com]

With both Direct TV and Dish Network, when the phone rang (given that a phone line was hooked to the receiver) the name and number of the caller would pop up on the TV screen. It wouldn't show in recordings, and would go away with a simple press of the OK button.

It would also keep a record of the last 20 or so callers; just like a normal phone would. It was a nice feature to have.

The pixellation is mostly when changing channels. Irritating, but certainly not a deal breaker.

[jsbowden.livejournal.com]

Well, see, my phone line doesn't go anywhere near my STB. The phone line gets split out before the TV and net connection.

[voltbang.livejournal.com]

At our last house, there was something wrong, and we would get caller id, sure, just, not associated with any incoming calls on our phone. Nifty, but not terribly useful.

[buzz.livejournal.com]

Damn you people and your fancy FioS internets.

[jsbowden.livejournal.com]

Don't hate us because we're beautiful...hate us because we can flood you off the net with the bandwidth we've got left over.

[sungo.livejournal.com]

similarly, verizon is spearheading that p4p work. I never thought I'd see a telco take a reasonable stand on p2p. I'm very conflicted by this whole situation.

[jsbowden.livejournal.com]

Is your head ready to go splodey yet?

[sungo.livejournal.com]

It's about to. In fact, it probably would explode except that verizon blew an atm switch out here a couple of weeks back. had 1000 people offline and left it that way overnight because they didn't want to work at night. if I take that with the p4p deal, they kind of balance out :)