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Originally Posted by PRBuzz
Here's my problem with any of these upgrades: since being in the house 25yrs, I've run many cable lines which have one or more splits. Power boosters have already been installed. I've run a direct, uninterrupted line to the single HD TV but what happens when I replace other older TVs with HD sets? The higher capacity demands of HD means I have to upgrade lines within the house, too. So no matter if FiOS installs fiber optic to the house, inside the house must also have high quality feeds. Of course assuming a TV lead in every room. I also had to replace my router with a newer version.
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We just had FiOS installed last week. The house is 120 years old, but fortunately, all the cable lines to the rooms terminate in the basement. The Verizon tech disconnected the Cluster Eff with 4 splitters that Comcast had created and replaced it with a single 1IN-6OUT splitter. According to the tech, there is 10db of headroom coming into the house from Verizon and the splitter drops 5db so there shouldn't be any drop in quality (who knows though). They also provided a free WiFi router that has been working as well as my Linksys. Oh and no charge for the 5 hour installation.
One of the things I really like about Fios is the direct pipeline to the house. We have the basic 15Mbs/5Mbs internet and that is what it will always be, regardless of how many of my neighbors switch to Verizon.
On the other hand, before I moved to where I am now we had Comcast and they "Upgraded our speeds to 30Mbs (or something like that) for free" according to them. I noticed a measurable decrease in internet speeds during the evening hours. Using websites like
Speedtest.net - The Global Broadband Speed Test, we never came close to Comcast's advertised speeds but Verizon has been dead on.
I never liked Comcast. The service was spotty, we always had errors on our bill, a faulty router, 2 separate failed DVRs that deleted hours and hours of saved programs, charging us for the Set Top boxes and then charging for the remotes to operate the boxes. It was always one headache after another and rarely came with any kind of apology or compensation. Hopefully, that's just my experience and others haven't had to deal with that.