[RFI] FIOS vs DSL

[Roger (K8RI)]

I''m in Charter country, and have 100Mbs cable which I've recently seen 
go as high as 190 Mbs, but typical is around 130 Mbs. In the past I've 
had ISDN, DSL, and dial-up. DSL back then was slow and REALLY expensive. 
I paid far more than double what I pay for the 100 Mbs cable, for a 
fraction of the speed.  IIRC the speed was only a couple hundred Kbs. 
Fiber has the potential of being an order of magnitude, or more faster 
than cable.

The only downside to fiber would be the hardware on each end.  I don't 
know what's available, but there should be RFI free hardware available.  
Do "they" provide it, or is it like cable and you purchase your own?

I've had as many as 5 computers on at once, using a Gbs network and no 
interference to or from the computer/network/cable. At present, I only 
have three computers, plus two servers, but I have another build almost 
ready to go.

My goal is to get both stations on the network so I can operate both 
from either position.

73, Roger (K8RI)

On 2/22/2017 7:55 PM, Alan NV8A 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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