<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 11:27 AM, Eric Cooper <<a href="mailto:ecc@cmu.edu">ecc@cmu.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">FIOS is now available in my neighborhood, and I'm wondering if anyone<br>here has it and can answer more questions than Verizon's web site does.<br>
<br>Verizon says they provide a broadband router to connect to the optical<br>network terminal. Can anyone tell me what they're using? Does it<br>provide DHCP and NAT, or do you talk to it with PPPOE, or what?<br><br>
Was it possible to get connected without having a Windows PC or Mac to<br>make the technician happy?<br><br>Elsewhere Verizon says they provide a wireless router for a home<br>network. Is this a different box or is it the same one that connects<br>
to the ONT?<br><br>I'm also curious about any general experience with the service, and<br>which service level you've used. (They're currently offering 5M<br>down/2M up, 15/2, 15/15, and 30/15.)<br><font color="#888888"><br>
--<br>Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u<br>_________________________________________</font></blockquote>
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<div>I've had a great experience with my FIOS, I've had the 15/2 for just under 2 years now. I don't recall having a single outage. My connection is also DHCP, not PPoE. It's always there and blazing fast.</div>
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