[wplug] FiOS questions
Terence J. Golightly
vze27hs6 at verizon.net
Fri Jun 17 18:42:48 EDT 2011
On 06/17/2011 02:34 PM, Mark Griskey wrote:
>
>> Also what is Verizon's attitude towards bittorenting? Would this be
>> blocked and would I then need a router that does port forwarding?
>
> I've had Fios for several years now (since 2006 iirc), and never had an
> issue with bittorrent. The last time I used bittorrent was yesterday.
I have used bittorent w/o any issues from verizon and I have done
massive downloads 19GB~ at a time;>.
>
> That aside, I've never had any problems. The only outage I've had was
> due to a thunderstorm ripping the line out of the house last fall. They
> fixed it within a day, but that didn't matter, my power was out for three.
>
> I also have their phone service over FIOS, I read some of the comments
> here, but in reality, I think is waning in importance. Telephoning is so
> 1880s.
I have that service as well. If you want to drop it, you need to supply
them a credit card to bill you internet to. That old 1980's;>
requirement to tie you bill to a phone number.
We have family all over the country and prefer to video chat
> over using the phone. We maybe use the landline twice a month. I hate
> the phone, it seems so clunky anymore.
>
> My only complaint is that they refused to remove the copper from the
> pole to my house. But now that is a moot point since the storm ripped
> that out too.
Still got that my mom still has a rotary phone:D.
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