killerbobjr
join:2005-10-20
Santa Monica, CA
| reply to ashakouri1
Re: FIOS is West Los Angeles/ Westside
Fair has nothing to do with it. Verizon will light up where it's the most profitable. Above Montana it's affluent single family homes with high uptake of broadband AND extra phone services, so Verizon will light up there first since they can be pretty sure they'll have good penetration. Around my neighborhood it's mostly renters, the uptake of broadband has been pretty slow, and I'd venture that most of the DSL service is the low priced tier and most folks have cell phone service rather than landlines, so installing fiber here doesn't look anywhere near as profitable. Santa Monica also has a whole bunch of extra regulatory hoops to jump through for any utilities doing business here, so that's got to put a big damper on rollout.
You'll just have to be be patient and wait like everyone else. If you're desperate, you can always order extra dry loop DSL lines and bond them. |
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darcilicious
Cyber Librarian
Premium
join:2001-01-02
Forest Grove, OR
 ·Verizon FIOS
 ·Comcast
| said by killerbobjr  :You'll just have to be be patient and wait like everyone else. If you're desperate, you can always order extra dry loop DSL lines and bond them. Does Verizon DSL support true *bonding*?
I know there are dual routers out there (we did Verizon DSL and Comcast broadband that way for a couple of years) and with protocol / port binding, you can configure which ISP your application will use, for example. However, I have never heard that Verizon DSL actually offers bonding where you do essentially double your pipe transparently. |
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killerbobjr
join:2005-10-20
Santa Monica, CA
| I thought I read somewhere that Verizon will do bonding on their end for business DSL in certain areas, but I may misremember and it was other service providers using Verizon lines (like DSLExtreme). I was thinking more of using a Linux box as a router and having it do load balancing, which is a cheap way of getting higher speeds in areas that don't have FIOS. |
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darcilicious
Cyber Librarian
Premium
join:2001-01-02
Forest Grove, OR
·Verizon FIOS
·Comcast
| said by killerbobjr :I was thinking more of using a Linux box as a router and having it do load balancing, which is a cheap way of getting higher speeds in areas that don't have FIOS. Yes, though load balancing is not the same bonding  We were very happy with our Linksys RV04 -- it was pretty easy to configure, e.g. hubby used ISP with higher upload for bit torrenting and I used the other ISP with higher downloads for Usenet binaries, etc... |
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fitbryan
join:2005-07-26
Santa Monica, CA | reply to killerbobjr
I have been trying to coordinate an install for months now in santa monica. have been bounced around to 4 different people and scheduled a 2nd site visit which the guy was a no-show for today. is this typical??? |
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Gildor
join:2008-02-02
Torrance, CA
| I don't know what's "typical", but I just had FIOS installed down here in Torrance and everything went like clockwork. All the different guys came to the house in their alloted times, and the system was installed on the day I specified when I made my initial order. I hope you get things straightened out. |
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