[Discuss] Verizon home "business" ?

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

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On 09/06/2011 11:47 PM, Chuck Anderson wrote:
>> Does anyone here have experience with this, and know what magic words
>> we need to know to get a reasonable price without all the zillions of
>> extra channels that we'd rather not pay for?
>
> How about "I'd switch from cable to FiOS if only I could do the same
> thing I can do on cable (light web serving) for the same or cheaper
> price..."
For general home use I don't see a distinct advantage to FIOS. AFAIK,
FIOS has 3 bandwidth plans, 15/5, 25/25, 50/20. In comparison I get
60Mbps on Comcast, but only a measly 5Mbps up. So, If I wanted to host a
website, I would not chose home Cable. John, ff you get the FIOS home
service why could you not host the web sites you now do. They certainly
want to charge you for business service, and it sometimes makes sense.

In my experience I have found that my Comcast service has been very
reliable as long as we don't have trucks pull down the wires, and my
Comcast outages other than some brief outages during Irene have been the
result of a car hitting a pole, and a year later a truck caught the same
cables. But, those affected both power and cable, and probably Verizon
but depends on where Verizon feeds our neighborhood. From a techie
standpoint I would love to have fibre in my home, but from a performance
standpoint, it would not make sense.

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