Fios in the Broadlands?

I don't know if this site is working or not but it lists my number as qualifying for Fios. Might be worth a look...

http://www22.verizon.com/ForYourHome/Fios/packagePrice.asp

This is the quote...

Great News! You do qualify for Verizon Fios Internet Service.

FiosSM Internet Service is a new Verizon Online offer, and the latest in broadband technology. We are currently in a trial phase and due to overwhelming demand, we have already reached our target for trial participants. However, our launch is currently scheduled for early fall, 2004.

Could it be? It sounds too good to be true.

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Up to 5 Mbps/2 Mbps* $39.95/mo

Up to 15 Mbps/2 Mbps* $49.95/mo

Up to 30 Mbps/5 Mbps* $199.95/m


Sign me up! Good-Bye Adelphia.

 

yowsers. that would be good to get some more broadband competition in.

I ditched VZ, wonder if I need phone service to get FIOS

the phone number qualification seems to take any phone number and say you can get it...

 

Ya, no kidding. Ive never heard of this service, no wonder dsl isnt available (aside from the copper issue). Ill take this over dsl , over cable and over verolan [B)]
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Im sure once they start rolling it out they will have growing pains, with billing, installation, service (it will probably suck at first, around 3000/1000), but its better than the weak 256k uploads we have now. I wonder if we can run servers off of this thing.....hmmmmmm. Probably not since uploads are capped. But this is great news indeed. Fall of 2004, just around the corner.

DwArFlOrD

 

https://www22.verizon.com/ForYourHome/FTTPRepair/common/ONTBrochureCONS.pdf

some more interesting reading...and pictures of the equipment...

And another interesting site:

http://fios.3v3bizich.com/

"Confirmed" deployment in Fairfax County... no Loudoun on this site...

 

I'm wondering about something ... they're talking about an optical network terminator ... is this for fibre lines only ?? Also note, that the availability is based on location, not phone number. Makes me wonder ....

Neil Z.
Resident since 1999

 

I don't see how they would run fiber to each house now... would be a horrible pain in the butt.... esp since we're all on buried lines.

 

I know that all of Southern Walk has fibre, I'm not sure if they even laid normal phone or cable lines down there. I'm not sure if the northern part of Broadlands had fibre laid down along with the phone and cable, don't believe so. In that case, only Southern Walk would have an option to use this service, if Verizon could share the fibre 'transmitter' with Open Band.



Neil Z.
Resident since 1999

 

I agree. I know we have fiber to the RT but I don't know if the copper to the NID is in conduit that would facilitate running fiber or not. I would think it would be cheaper to install a Remote DSLAM than running new buried fiber. But if they have plans to roll out FTTP/FTTH that may explain why they don't want to invest in a remote DSLAM for DSL? Maybe it's just wishful thinking.

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Well I checked my phone number, and just like DSL I can't get it. Sigh ... stuck with adelphia.

M.

 

what is your prefix? I'm 703-858 and it worked.... 703-726 worked as well.

 

703-729 does not work.

M.

 

Hmmm... seems they may have changed the qualification since yesterday. On the 27th I qualified but today (28th) I don't.

So we're dead in the water again.

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I feel your pain, I'm still forking over $109/mo for a 128k pipe so I can run servers from my home.

There's no way to really tell yet if they'll let us run servers on Fios. And they may offer a Business option too. That is IF we get it in the Broadlands.

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P2P clients effectively run servers on your computer... why couldn't you host your own server on some random port? I'm sure if they cared, they would warn you before shutting you down.

 

Yep, IDSL for my mail and web servers. I would like to run an FTP server too but 128k is just too painful for that.

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why not just get dedicated hosting for mail/web? Would that not be cheaper than IDSL? or do you work from home and need something more reliable than cable?

 

I may go the dedicated route in the future if I can find someone reliable. I like having the machines at home for controll reasons.

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