fios is a trademark from verizon, means fiber to either the prem or inside the
prem. verizon is by far not the only company providing services over fiber.
mostly marketing hype
comcast is by far not ‘cable only’ , comcast has over the years upgraded most
of its outside plant to fiber and exists as a hybrid over fiber plant. (HFC
hybrid fiber coax). in larger new developments for example the run fiber to
the door older areas have not all been upgraded and there isn’t a super push
to ’nationwide’ upgrade. verizon had a giant dollar push to upgrade their
outside plant to fiber, for tons of reasons again google is your friend if you
wish to know the history.
far as ‘lost’ cables, yeah, nearly all providers suffer from that, service
that was run along time ago typically was known only by the guy that ran it,
and his file cabinet, when he left they typically toss the files so makes
finding the cables hard, they usually pay a cable id firm to go find it or run
new. oddly enough even newer more recently run services also get ‘lost’
various reasons, it happens but overall most are well documents very small %
gets truly lost, :)
charter by far prob lost the most stuff in the field as each operating unit
was like an island to itself, and most was done ad hoc style good luck if
someone asks you for a cable map easier to find a unicorn
no worries lots of false advertising, or misleading advertising out there
always good to ask around here get help and tips from fellow hams
lucky for you , your in an area with some competition, not sure that
comcast was in long island thou?? For LI i’d recomend cablevision first
and fios/verizon second all have pro’s n con’s just my 2cents
best of luck
myles Landstein
myles.landstein@gmail.com
> On Feb 22, 2017, at 7:55 PM, Alan NV8A <nv8a@charter.net> wrote:
>
> I thought that FIOS was Verizon-only and that Comcast was cable-only. Neither
> Verizon nor Comcast are in the area in which I live (this is Charter and AT&T
> territory), so I have no first-hand experience of either, but my wife had
> experience of Comcast in her former job and found them terrible to deal with.
> I've read that FIOS is excellent when it works but that customer service is
> terrible.
>
> And then there was the time many years ago when on Long Island Verizon dug up
> one of their own cables which wasn't where their plans said it was. Of course
> they had redundant circuits -- but all in the same cable bundle.
>
> 73
>
> Alan NV8A
>
>
> On 02/22/2017 06:35 PM, Aaron Kreider wrote:
>> I'm thinking of switching from Verizon DSL to Comcast FIOS for faster
>> and more reliable internet.
>>
>> I'm hoping that the FIOS will be cleaner in terms of RFI. What possible
>> sources of RFI are there from FIOS? Do they use signal boosters that
>> put out RFI? I'm guessing the router will be the biggest source and
>> that chokes on that will alleviate most of it.
>>
>> I'm in Philadelphia, PA and we already have FIOS lines on our street -
>> so perhaps they already have the signal boosters installed.
>>
>> Aaron
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