http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/cables-fiber-to-the-home-plan-is-well-underway/ Engadget Comments for Cable's fiber to the home plan is well underway http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/cables-fiber-to-the-home-plan-is-well-underway/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/cables-fiber-to-the-home-plan-is-well-underway/Oct 27th 2008 1:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/cables-fiber-to-the-home-plan-is-well-underway/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/cables-fiber-to-the-home-plan-is-well-underway/Oct 27th 2008 6:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/cables-fiber-to-the-home-plan-is-well-underway/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/cables-fiber-to-the-home-plan-is-well-underway/
After the way Time Warner handled the Adelphia merger I highly doubt they're going to spend the money to bring FTTP in the next 5 years. ]]>Oct 27th 2008 1:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/cables-fiber-to-the-home-plan-is-well-underway/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/cables-fiber-to-the-home-plan-is-well-underway/Oct 27th 2008 2:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/cables-fiber-to-the-home-plan-is-well-underway/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/cables-fiber-to-the-home-plan-is-well-underway/
If standard cable companies can beat what FIOS has to offer, I'd switch in a heartbeat! Verizon has the worst customer service in the history of the world... seriously.

Unfortunately, my only options, Cox and Comcast, cant compete in any of those categories... yet. I guess we'll have to wait and see... ]]>Oct 27th 2008 1:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/cables-fiber-to-the-home-plan-is-well-underway/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/cables-fiber-to-the-home-plan-is-well-underway/Oct 27th 2008 2:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/cables-fiber-to-the-home-plan-is-well-underway/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/cables-fiber-to-the-home-plan-is-well-underway/Oct 27th 2008 2:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/cables-fiber-to-the-home-plan-is-well-underway/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/cables-fiber-to-the-home-plan-is-well-underway/Oct 27th 2008 2:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/cables-fiber-to-the-home-plan-is-well-underway/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/cables-fiber-to-the-home-plan-is-well-underway/Oct 27th 2008 3:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/cables-fiber-to-the-home-plan-is-well-underway/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/cables-fiber-to-the-home-plan-is-well-underway/
However, for at least the last couple of years, the standard install has been to just coax from the ONT (optical network terminal) to the Actiontec router, which takes the place of the NIM for providing video service. From the Actiontec, coax runs to your TV(s) and you connect your computers via ethernet or wifi.

If you read the FiOS forum on DSLReports, you will see posts where people have run their own Cat5e from the ONT to where the Actiontec is located. Although the installer will by default run coax, if the Cat5e is there and the installer doesn't have to run it himself, he will generally use it--it just requires a change of the order at the main office to provision you for Internet over Cat5 instead of coax. Also, some people have reported being able to call Verizon and have this changed after the fact.]]>Oct 28th 2008 10:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/cables-fiber-to-the-home-plan-is-well-underway/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/cables-fiber-to-the-home-plan-is-well-underway/
as of now i have about 32 HD channels ]]>Oct 27th 2008 2:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/cables-fiber-to-the-home-plan-is-well-underway/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/cables-fiber-to-the-home-plan-is-well-underway/Oct 27th 2008 6:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/cables-fiber-to-the-home-plan-is-well-underway/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/cables-fiber-to-the-home-plan-is-well-underway/Oct 27th 2008 3:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/cables-fiber-to-the-home-plan-is-well-underway/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/cables-fiber-to-the-home-plan-is-well-underway/Oct 27th 2008 5:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/cables-fiber-to-the-home-plan-is-well-underway/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/cables-fiber-to-the-home-plan-is-well-underway/Oct 27th 2008 9:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/cables-fiber-to-the-home-plan-is-well-underway/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/cables-fiber-to-the-home-plan-is-well-underway/
As 2008 closes the same old story and new corporate suitors are just as waning as plans remain just that and no actual effort in the field has been made to upgrade that single mode fiber running across my lawn. U-verse means nothing to this consumer AND employee.

I get video from a satellite and broadband from the cable company. Now I'm moving forward to replace the $22/month discounted plain-jane land line phone with a pair of VOIP lines from T-mobile. So, what has fiber mean to me at home? NOTHING.]]>Oct 28th 2008 5:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/cables-fiber-to-the-home-plan-is-well-underway/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/cables-fiber-to-the-home-plan-is-well-underway/
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