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My final update on Frontier FiOS. Current speed: 75/75. We dumped FiOS TV about three years ago or more. Dumped landline a number of years before that. Getting ready for the transition to ziplyfiber.com apparently. Several hours of downtime on 4/11 (from about 2a through 10a) and and again starting around 8:15p for several hours. Had a brief outage the week of 3/16 that lasted about an hour or two during working hours. Given the "stay at home" order, two of us are working from home over VPN and outages like this really aren't "okay", transition or no. August 2015 Updated our package shortly after the first of the year in order to get off the old Extreme HD (2009) TV package onto the current one which included a number of new HD channels added back in August of 2014. Current pricing (w/o/taxes, etc) looks like: FiOS 25M Dynamic HSI Res $38.00 (this 25mb/s up and down) FiOS TV Extreme HD $82.99 High Definition Set-Top Box Rental (2) $19.98 TOTAL MONTHLY SERVICE CHARGES $140.97 It was a trick at the time to keep the symmetrical speeds, but Frontier has since brought them back plus more at reasonable prices. VOD continues to be hit or miss; if a TV show (episodes or the entire show) is missing in the HD Free section I can often fine the SD version (but at that point I generally use "other" sources). We had an equipment failure about 10 days ago; the first tech simply replaced the dead backup battery which worked for nearly 5 hours and then we were without TV and Internet again. Second tech (two days later) replaced the ONT and BBU and we've been rock solid ever since. So overall, not stellar service (e.g. no new software/firmware updates to the STBs) but good enough (TV Everywhere isn't half bad) and probably still better than Comcast. December 2012 Nothing new to report. Haven't changed our package, still getting the advertised speed for the most part though upload isn't quite as consistent as it once but not a deal breaker. Not on a contract, still have the old (2009) Extreme HD package the only new channel not included has been FSCHD but oh, well. July 10, 2010 Bad point: * Noticed the other day that none of the episodes for HD TV shows have been updated past 6/30. Once again, VOD via Verizon/Frontier proven to be worthless. (There was about 6+ months starting mid-Fall '09 where Vz was weeks behind or completely missing episodes via VOD). July 6, 2010 Good points: * No change in speed (I have 25/25 and got 26/23 this morning to a good/consistent speed test site that I use regularly) * No change in channel line up, or other TV programming like VOD Bad points: * Trying to access my account info (bills, etc) has been a nightmare all day. Earlier, the pages weren't even rendering correctly (in either Firefox or IE). And now this evening, the website returns "http/1.1 Service Unavailable" * Us ex-Verizon customers are a long way from being integrated into Frontier systems, if it ever actually happens completely. Frontier basically received cloned versions of Verizon's site, so we're totally separate and I can't help but wonder how well they'll be able to maintain it. Not much else to say at this point though I'm curious to see if we ever receive new channels, if various web-based services (access to DVRs and the like) are ever re-implemented by Frontier, and what kind of IMG updates we receive, if any. member for 23.2 years, 9838 visits, last login: a few hours ago updated 3.9 years ago |