fiberguy
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join:2005-05-20
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Re: I agree
said by cwh  :said by rachelsfx :Project Lightspeed is a JOKE! Even Luke Skywalker agrees. FIOS isn't going to stay that cheap for long with $100 billion on the line. Cell and VOIP is killing off the RBOCs. I'm all for FULL net neutrality. Anything else is ridiculous. Rachel You might want to hold off on calling Lightspeed a joke. If it becomes available as rapidly as ATT claims, I dont think the cable companies will be laughing at all. I have had the service for about a month now and it is quite competitive package to local cable offerings. It does quite a few things better than cable. How have you had it for two months now? You a beta tester? I thought it was just recently released.
Also, when people say that "it does quite a few things better than cable", you often get more creidt when you explain that. In other words, you post is like a menu with good pictures on it,.. make you desire the food but doesn't satify the appetite until the food arrives...
So let's hear about the things that make light speed good. |
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cwh
join:2006-05-14
San Antonio, TX
| said by fiberguy : How have you had it for two months now? You a beta tester? I thought it was just recently released.
Also, when people say that "it does quite a few things better than cable", you often get more creidt when you explain that. In other words, you post is like a menu with good pictures on it,.. make you desire the food but doesn't satify the appetite until the food arrives...
So let's hear about the things that make light speed good.
I have had the service about a month now, not two. I live in one of the trial neighborhoods in san antonio.
Things I like.
1. Instant channel changing.
2. PIP when browsing channels.
3. PIP on favorites list.
4. 3 settop dvr boxes as part of the package.
5. Settop UI is huge improvemnt over current cable offerings.
6. So far the customer support has been good.
7. My broadband connection is fast and not suffering packetloss. Road runner apparently is suffering in this area.
8. Options for usable bandwidth tiers. 1.5/1 is the lowest tier. RRlite is 384/384.
9. Residentual gateway with built in firewall w/statefull packet inspection. My rt314 got retired after 6 years of service after the RG got plugged in.
10. The install technicians did the interal wiring changes right. Everything is properly mounted and bundled up nicely.
Things I have had problems with.
1. Some of the kids cartoons display compression artifacts at times. Should be easily fixed by adjusting the compression paremeters. A stream of these cartoons could not take up much space to begin with.
2. No dual tuner on the current settop boxes. No HD. New settop boxes will be available in a few months to replace these. For now, not a big deal.
3. Occasional dropping of packets causing frame errors. It is not frequent enough to be a problem and it happened on digital cable as well. |
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rachelsfx
join:2004-09-27
Pensacola, FL
| Well, a beta tester is going to get all that pretty cheap for free advertising and word of mouth.
It is funny the Death Star can't relay cartons right, has no HD, and, sure, customer support is going to be good with a handful of users. Like you stated, bandwidth problems already because too much compression.
FIOS customers report how many problems? Almost none. |
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cwh
join:2006-05-14
San Antonio, TX
| said by rachelsfx :Well, a beta tester is going to get all that pretty cheap for free advertising and word of mouth. It is funny the Death Star can't relay cartons right, has no HD, and, sure, customer support is going to be good with a handful of users. Like you stated, bandwidth problems already because too much compression. FIOS customers report how many problems? Almost none. Well as soon fios is available here.
Until then, I am quite quite glad there are more options available to consumers. My guess is you will enjoy the competition as well, even if you deem it inferior to cirrent options. |
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