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| | Stayed with Comcast... Fios is available in my area and I've been dreaming of getting Fios for a long time, but in the end I decided to stick with Comcast (for TV and Internet) for the following reasons:
1) I decided to stick with Comcast TV instead of going to Fios TV because Comcast offered me two free DTA and an SD Set-top box for free. In addition, they still offered some analog channels after the digital switchover. As someone with a lot of analog equipment (2 SD Tivos, multiple computers with analog tuners, a DVD/Hard Disk recorder, VCR etc), Comcast allowed me to continue to use my current equipment and to gradually replace them over time instead of being instantly made unusable.
2) I switched to Comcast HSI from Verizon DSL because of Comcast's Self Install option. I wanted to go with Fios because I think its the superior technology but the convenience of self install made me go with Comcast. I could just buy my own cable modem at Best Buy and do a self install instead of having to take a day off from work so I could be home for a very intrusive and long installation of ONT and other equipment. In addition, it's easier to be able to use your own router with Comcast. | |
|  JPLPremium
join:2007-04-04
Downingtown, PA
kudos:1 | Re: Stayed with Comcast... said by BlueBeetle:In addition, it's easier to be able to use your own router with Comcast. Sorry but you really need to explain that one to me. Are you saying it's easier to bridge your own router with Comcast's than with Verizon? If so, then I don't have anything to counter that (don't know if that's true or not). But if you're actually saying that you can just go buy your own router off the shelf to use with Comcast... um, no, you can't. With FiOS you have the option to be provisioned with ethernet. Which means with FiOS, I COULD go get my own router off the shelf. Granted, if I want FiOS TV service (unless I had a third party DVR like a TiVo), I'd still need to bridge Verizon's router in there to get things like guide data and VOD. But unless you can be provisioned with ethernet, how can you just go get an off-the-shelf router and swap it out for your Comcast router? I don't think you can. | |
| | ricklgPremium
join:2004-03-07
Laurel, MD | Re: Stayed with Comcast... Err, sorry. Comcast doesn't give you a router unless you foolishly bought the home networking package. Almost any router will work. Mine has worked just fine for over 5 years. | |
| | | |  MadMANNPremium
join:2005-08-19
kudos:2 | said by JPL:Are you saying it's easier to bridge your own router with Comcast's than with Verizon? If so, then I don't have anything to counter that (don't know if that's true or not). But if you're actually saying that you can just go buy your own router off the shelf to use with Comcast... um, no, you can't. um, yes, you CAN. | |
| |  rchandraStargate Universe fanPremium
join:2000-11-09
14225-2105 | In that way, Verizon are dumb and cablecos are smart. With some exceptions, Verizon have always required some sort of special voodoo (PPPoE) or a router device of their choosing. Cablecos by-and-large only need to know the address of your commodity cable modem, and anything that speaks Ethernet, IP, and DHCP can be used with their service. Verizon's usual method these days is coax and MoCA, which, if your own router is not just a router (oh, let's say is also an IP PBX so actually needs to have the public address and no NAT for some of its operation...think SIP), has to have their router set up a little weirdly (basically so that it acts more like a MoCA to Ethernet bridge than anything else).
I wonder if I ordered just Internet if they'd turn up the Ethernet port instead, or if they'd still go MoCA so that there'd be fewer changes when they offer FiOS TV...
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| | | | | Re: Stayed with Comcast... West coast we use DHCP on the DSL/HSI.
When I started with fios internet they installed it on moca first because it was easier I think. But my coax had issues so I switched it to the ethernet port and it has been up running like a champ ever since. At the time FiosTV was still a distant dream in my CO. | |
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