I should also point out that once you get FIOS, your home phone also comes over the fiber which requires power to work. So, verizon installs a backup battery thing with their box to keep your home phone working if you lose power. The backup is, I think, good for half and hour or so. If I knew this ahead of time I might not have gone FIOS.

 

If power fails, doesn't your cordless phone fail to work properly anyway? I thought if power was out, even hardline phones would be out as well, no?

At least Verizon has something there in case of power outages...

 

phone over cable is the same.

I have my modem on a 750 UPS which pushes it out to hours of service.
It's shared with my PC but is set up when powers out for a few minutes to shut the pc down.

 

I still want to know why if you aren't doing online gaming or heavy downloading and need the bandwidth, why would you pay more for the un-needed bandwidth and also lose tv programming? Just to be part of the fios club or something?

 

it's latency man.

how fast will the page be there.

mind you I can periodically suck down BIG files.
largest single download so far 3.8 gig.
for some DVD ISO images for linux distro disks

 

good point BUT i have a cell phone and a back up generator

 

Very true, unless you're gaming you won't notice that much of a difference. Plus to get the higher speed HSI, you'll have to pay more. Most that aren't gamers don't pay the extra because it's not needed. Also, it's a bit misunderstood that fiber carries much more "bandwidth" and I love the fact that Verizon advertises as "True Quam". Quam is Quam is Quam, you either have it or you don't. There's no such thing as fake Quam. Comcast HSI is "True Quam" as well. You can achieve it in coax just as well as glass. The advantage is more to the maintenance and cost of the plant in the long run. Glass will not kink (and is surprisingly flexible), has much better connections/splices and can go longer spans without amplifying, so less equimpment to power/maintain.