Hi Frank and Company

[billymach4 Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close billymach4]

Just wanted to say hello to everyone. Been under the radar lately. Have been working long hours at the office, not been able to peek at TS4MS. Also been busy at home with improvement projects. Painting the family room, getting it ready for my new 42" HDTV. Also Got Verizon FIOS installed at 20mbps. I am the first one on the block to jump on this FIOS thing. Really amazed at the technology! The install itself took about 7 hours. It was well worth the hassle!

[bigfrank Administrator Find all posts View Profile Close bigfrank]

I was wondering what happened to you. Well now that your hooked up, I guess your really flying at Mach 4.

[riverdees05 Platinum Contributor Find all posts View Profile Close riverdees05]

Welcome Back

Hope you see you posting more now

[JWC Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close JWC]

Just wanted to say hello to everyone. Been under the radar lately. Have been working long hours at the office, not been able to peek at TS4MS. Also been busy at home with improvement projects. Painting the family room, getting it ready for my new 42" HDTV. Also Got Verizon FIOS installed at 20mbps. I am the first one on the block to jump on this FIOS thing. Really amazed at the technology! The install itself took about 7 hours. It was well worth the hassle!

I have had Verizon FIOS service for 1.5 years now. Our city was the first place to receive FIOS. It is very fast, reliable, and the customer service is great. I am curious about your 20 MBPS service. We can choose from 5 MBPS, 15 MBPS, and 30 MBPS but not 20. I chose the 15 MBPS option. My installation took about 4 hours and was very smooth and was free. They also gave me the first month free and just upgraded my router to wireless for free and let me keep the original router. I already had CAT-5 wiring in the house so they didn't need to install that. I also have Verizon's FIOS Cable TV and FIOS telephone.

[falmouth3 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close falmouth3]

We have FiOS too

We've also had it over a year. We went with the 5 and it's very speedy. We'd recommend it to anyone!

Sue

[Beaglemom3 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Beaglemom3]

What is FIOS ?

I'm still dial-up, no kidding.

Beags Slowski (love those commercials )

[bigfrank Administrator Find all posts View Profile Close bigfrank]

What is FIOS ?

I'm still dial-up, no kidding.

Beags Slowski (love those commercials )

Fios is Fibor Optics

Beags you don't know what your missing. Get to the 21 century will ya. It's moving at the speed of light.

[billymach4 Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close billymach4]

I have had Verizon FIOS service for 1.5 years now. Our city was the first place to receive FIOS. It is very fast, reliable, and the customer service is great. I am curious about your 20 MBPS service. We can choose from 5 MBPS, 15 MBPS, and 30 MBPS but not 20. I chose the 15 MBPS option. My installation took about 4 hours and was very smooth and was free. They also gave me the first month free and just upgraded my router to wireless for free and let me keep the original router. I already had CAT-5 wiring in the house so they didn't need to install that. I also have Verizon's FIOS Cable TV and FIOS telephone.

In my area in NYC Verizon is limited to phone and ISP. For some insane reason Verizon needs to get approval from City Hall to provide TV. They offer the 10 mbps and 20 mbps. I can't wait for the TV to kick in. I hear that in June or July Verizon will get the approval to broadcast TV in NYC.

[billymach4 Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close billymach4]

Who else has FIOS?

Frank does Verizon offer FIOS in MV? Do you have FIOS?

Yes I am flying at the speed of light!

[falmouth3 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close falmouth3]

BeagleMom,
It's being rolled out town by town in MA. In my area the first town was Woburn and Burlington came soon after. We signed up as soon as we could and we've been very happy with it. We had a buzzing in our phone line for years that the phone company couldn't clear up. It disappeared as soon as we got FiOS and the internet service is tops! We're also very impressed with the TV service. If anyone in MA wants to be referred, I just got a form from Verizon saying I'll get a bonus. But I've been saying it's great, even with before the bonus.

Sue

[somerville Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close somerville]

I am still waiting for FIOS service in my area. Two years ago, Verizon tore up our yards and installed the fiber optic cable. One and a half years ago they sent me a promo to sign up for FIOS. I set up an appointment. They canceled it without calling me. When I called Verizon, they said it was a mistake, and FIOS wasn't yet available in my area. I am still waiting for FIOS availability.

[Sandcrab Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Sandcrab]

Fios is Fibor Optics

Beags you don't know what your missing. Get to the 21 century will ya. It's moving at the speed of light.

Beaglemom: Don't worry about it. If fiberoptics is available to you...you are living way to close to the city. You need congestion for this and cable etc. to be economical. If you can observe an eagles nest from your window and predators are just little rodents and not a releasee from kiddee sex prison, you are in a good place. Don't worry about a lack of "fast" comm., even I can receive your prehistoric dial-up messages on my pre-historic dial-up service.

[JWC Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close JWC]

Frank does Verizon offer FIOS in MV? Do you have FIOS?

Yes I am flying at the speed of light!

You can check if Verizon FIOS is available in your area at the following link.

Verizon

[taffy19 Gold Contributor Find all posts View Profile Close taffy19]

BeagleMom,
We had a buzzing in our phone line for years that the phone company couldn't clear up.
Sue

We like the speed too but we have a buzzing sound on our two phone lines now that we didn't have before nor can we use our stand alone FAX machine or use the computer modems either for a FAX or a dial-up connection we still have with EarthLink.

I wonder if they mixed up our lines? I haven't called them out yet because we have to move our bookcase again which is full of books. Why would the FAX or modem no longer work while it always worked with DSL?

[JWC Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close JWC]

We like the speed too but we have a buzzing sound on our two phone lines now that we didn't have before nor can we use our stand alone FAX machine or use the computer modems either for a FAX or a dial-up connection we still have with EarthLink.

I wonder if they mixed up our lines? I haven't called them out yet because we have to move our bookcase again which is full of books. Why would the FAX or modem no longer work while it always worked with DSL?

Emmy,

There is no reason why the FAX and modem should not still work. I have had no problems at all with my FAX machine nor modem. I would call Verizon and have them fix the problem. My experience with their customer and technical support has been very good and it is all based in the US.