I'm not sure how FIOS (Verizon's fiber-based service) is provisioned to
the house, if you actually have a fiber drop at your interface or what,
but "fiber running down the street" might be the trunk line that goes
into the switch in your area, from there it goes out copper to your
house, and depending on how far you are from the switch it might not be
possible to get DSL (or Uverse VOIP/intertubes). I have a switch just a
coupla hundred yards from the (copper) terminal on the road at the end
of the driveway, then maybe 1000ft of copper to the house from that.
There is a fiber line running along the road too but it does not go to
houses.
I got Uverse a coupla years ago for phone and intertubes, had one modem
fail which they fixed and then tried to charge me for. I got the
"introductory" rate which they tried to jack up by 50% last year, I
threatened to quit so they reinstituted the rate again. It's all a
racket no matter which you get.
When the zombie apocalypse or the Sword of Allah falls I think your
friends might be Mr. Browning, Ruger, Smitth, Wesson, etc. rather than
AT&T. And CB raddiddios (stored in a metal can) good buddy.
--JC
On 7/12/16 11:05 AM, Meade Dillon via Mercedes wrote:
"If they have fiber running down the street why do we not have DSL or
uverse or something?"
Contact local telco to inquire about DSL.
Uverse (from BellSouth / ATT) seems to be a marketing scheme to tie you
into a special modem / router that provides DSL service bundled with
voice-over-IP, which now becomes a single point failure. Special modem
dies or locks up, no more house phone or internet. If you are comfortable
that your cell phones will work, including after the EMP attack or the
earth quake or tornado or the zombie apocalypse, then go for it.
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Max
Charleston SC
On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 10:52 AM, Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes <
mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
Huh?
Sent from my iPhone
On Jul 12, 2016, at 9:42 AM, Meade Dillon via Mercedes <
mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
Yes.
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Max
Charleston SC
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