[RFI] FIOS vs DSL

[myles Landstein]

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 at gmail.com



> On Feb 22, 2017, at 7:55 PM, Alan NV8A <nv8a at 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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