Verizon Fios

[waupaca]

I live in a neighborhood that is just beginning to have Verizon FIOS cable installed. I am wondering if neighborhoods that have already the fiber cable installed had their property trashed by the installers.The first thing is the Miss Utility people came and sprayed orange, blue and white paint in huge quantities. Spraying on grass does not matter because it will eventually grow and be mowed, but the streets look like giant graffiti walls and they have no intention of returning to remove after completed. additionally they cut huge holes in the middle of yards and throw a little bit of grass seed on it and leave it looking like crap. Grass that they put down is not even they same type so looks totally ridiculous. They also have these huge metal plates (assuming they are some type of cover)right in the middle of yards.I am just asking if FIOS has been installed in your neighborhood had the same type of horrendous mess left behind.I do not intend to use FIOS, so I am not going to have my property trashed. **Note: There is no right of way through my property.

[Lexib_ (Premo)]

They won't becoming to St. Marys until 2012. That's when their agreement with metrocast ends. Thats straight from Verizon.

[morningbell (Premo)]

Originally Posted by waupaca

I live in a neighborhood that is just beginning to have Verizon FIOS cable installed. I am wondering if neighborhoods that have already the fiber cable installed had their property trashed by the installers.The first thing is the Miss Utility people came and sprayed orange, blue and white paint in huge quantities. Spraying on grass does not matter because it will eventually grow and be mowed, but the streets look like giant graffiti walls and they have no intention of returning to remove after completed. additionally they cut huge holes in the middle of yards and throw a little bit of grass seed on it and leave it looking like crap. Grass that they put down is not even they same type so looks totally ridiculous. They also have these huge metal plates (assuming they are some type of cover)right in the middle of yards.I am just asking if FIOS has been installed in your neighborhood had the same type of horrendous mess left behind.I do not intend to use FIOS, so I am not going to have my property trashed. **Note: There is no right of way through my property.

I hate to tell you this but metrocast does the SAME thing with the paint and the grass.... and they leave it there for WEEKS. They came out yesterday and I thought that they were finally going to finish but they just burried the neighbor's cables and it was just in their brick planter. They don't do crap each time they come out. I have 3 more sections to be finished about 40ft, 15 ft and 6 ft.... this has been going on for a month and a half.

Another bad thing about Verizon FIOS and DSL is that they are blocking non Verizon email address. I don't know how they are able to do this but I asked again if that is true and yes it is.
Really it's not a bad thing that FIOS isn't down here in St. Mary's.

[SoMdDude]

Originally Posted by morningbell

Another bad thing about Verizon FIOS and DSL is that they are blocking non Verizon email address. I don't know how they are able to do this but I asked again if that is true and yes it is.
Really it's not a bad thing that FIOS isn't down here in St. Mary's.

What emails are they blocking?

I've had FIOS since August 2nd, and i was able to keep checking my comcast email until comcast finally turned everything off about 2 weeks after i canceled service. I can also access my hotmail account via outlook express. My internet is FIOS. So im not sure what you are getting at (shrug)

And to the OP.. where they dug my yard up is looking good because i watered and seeded it myself.. if you didnt water what they put down after they dug your yard up, guess what, it isnt going to grow :) I can hardly tell where they dug now. All of the markings on the road will slowly vanish over time. They have to do it so contractors know where gas (blue) and cable lines(orange) or anything else is. I think I had white markings in my yard as well, not sure if thats just power or not (all the power and phone lines in my neighborhood are under ground, no poles)

Those plates arent metal, they are hard plastic, and they need them to get to all of the fiber hubs/splitters, go take one off and look inside, its just a box with like 10 fiber lines plugged into it.

[morningbell (Premo)]

Originally Posted by SoMdDude

What emails are they blocking?

I've had FIOS since August 2nd, and i was able to keep checking my comcast email until comcast finally turned everything off about 2 weeks after i canceled service. I can also access my hotmail account via outlook express. My internet is FIOS. So im not sure what you are getting at (shrug)

And to the OP.. where they dug my yard up is looking good because i watered and seeded it myself.. if you didnt water what they put down after they dug your yard up, guess what, it isnt going to grow :) I can hardly tell where they dug now. All of the markings on the road will slowly vanish over time. They have to do it so contractors know where gas (blue) and cable lines(orange) or anything else is. I think I had white markings in my yard as well, not sure if thats just power or not (all the power and phone lines in my neighborhood are under ground, no poles)

Those plates arent metal, they are hard plastic, and they need them to get to all of the fiber hubs/splitters, go take one off and look inside, its just a box with like 10 fiber lines plugged into it.

I should have read what I wrote.... I think it was premature postation
A friend of mine who owns a business was having a problem communicating with her accountant. He (the accountant) was on the phone with FIOS customer care for 3 hours before they broke down a finally admitted that they were phasing out emails from anyone other than Verizon customers. I didn't think it sounded right when I heard it either. I'm going to ask her again and have her explain why..... She said they told him that they were doing this slowly so if you're getting emails they maybe they haven't gotten to you yet. I asked how this is legal and she said she isn't sure.

I'll ask again and see if she had gotten a solution.

[kom526]

I say bring on FIOS! If I can get same set up as my brother for less than what I'm paying now for HDTV, internet and phone service; hell I'd rent the trencher AND buy the spray paint.

I don't see how Verizon can phase out any web based email. Maybe your comcast or metrocast but hotmail? Sounds fishy to me.

[Larry Gude (Premo)]

I'm not having any luck finding out which is better, cable or fiber optic. I was under the impression that a cable maxes out around 10 mbs and that's all it can handle and that fiver optic can carry 10 times that?

[ItalianScallion (Premo)]

Originally Posted by SoMdDude

They have to do it so contractors know where gas (blue) and cable lines(orange) or anything else is. I think I had white markings in my yard as well, not sure if thats just power or not (all the power and phone lines in my neighborhood are under ground, no poles)
Those plates arent metal, they are hard plastic, and they need them to get to all of the fiber hubs/splitters, go take one off and look inside, its just a box with like 10 fiber lines plugged into it.

Red= Power
Orange= phone/cable
Blue= water
Yellow= gas
green= sewer
The cover is plastic or can be concrete but the box itself is concrete.

Originally Posted by Larry Gude

I'm not having any luck finding out which is better, cable or fiber optic. I was under the impression that a cable maxes out around 10 mbs and that's all it can handle and that fiver optic can carry 10 times that?

Fiber optic cable is always better than copper for many reasons:
Bandwidth- being able to carry more information than copper/coax. Can you understand 100 Terahertz? Fiber Optic Tutorial - Fiber: fiber specifications, multimode fiber, singlemode fiber, fiber optic cable, fiber optic cable assembly, custom cable assembly.
Unaffected by electromagnetic influence- no hum in the line when power surges happen or it rains.
It can carry a signal for MANY miles without the need for amplification.
Other reasons can be found but these are the most important ones.

[Larry Gude (Premo)]

Originally Posted by ItalianScallion

Red
Fiber optic cable is always better than copper for many reasons:
Bandwidth- being able to carry more information than copper/coax. Can you understand 100 Tetrahertz? Fiber Optic Tutorial - Fiber: fiber specifications, multimode fiber, singlemode fiber, fiber optic cable, fiber optic cable assembly, custom cable assembly.
Unaffected by electromagnetic influence- no hum in the line when power surges happen or it rains.
It can carry a signal for MANY miles without the need for amplification.
Other reasons can be found but these are the most important ones.

Thank you.

[sockgirl77 (Premo)]

Originally Posted by Lexib_

They won't becoming to St. Marys until 2012. That's when their agreement with metrocast ends. Thats straight from Verizon.

Whoever told you that is F.O.S.