Touching a Fiber Optic Nerve

There's an interesting discussion happening on the message boards at dslreports.com about what Fort Wayne customers think of Verizon's new fiber optic home service (FIOS).

• I have a friend who lives in a addition off of Ardmore near Elmhurst H.S. who already has it. They were out last week in my back yard connecting cable to the pole (Calhoun/Paulding area, Hillcrest Addition) and the installer would be back later to run the cable to the house. I can't wait to finally dump Comcast for FIOS and DishTV. I figured out that i will save roughly 25.00/month for TV & Internet services after I dump Comcast. I will also most like switch to VoiceWing or Vonage and save an additional 20.00+/month on phone service.

• I had mine installed on Tuesday and have had nothing but trouble. Constant reboots of the piece of crap dlink they left here. Also its a used router. WTF . How do i know its used your asking??? Well there's writing on the back in marker vz_fios3 gamelab3.. I am really disappointed in the tech support also. Any how I have changed the dlink out w/a multitech routefinder and still have to reset it at least 4 times a day. Speeds are very inconsistent also.

• I live in New Haven. But our address should be Fort Wayne. Not sure why, but I live in the George Town area. Anyway, I filled out some kind of form a few months back requesting service for Verizon FIOS. It said the neighborhoods with the most request, would be the first to receive the services. Three weeks ago, I received a phone call from one of Verizon's contractor asking me did I bury anything in my backyard within the last 2 yrs. I said, nope. Ok then she said, we will send someone out to mark any gas lines or buried cables in your backyard. A week few days later, they sent out someone to mark the gas lines with orange paint and flags. Then a week later, another Verizon contractor came out did some prep work on the phone box on the side of the house. Then a few days after that, they come back out to bury the fiber optic cable from the main to my house. Yeah baby!! He then said the final step would be for someone to come back out and install the new box. He said that wont be until a week or two. So I should be receiving a phone call soon, to hook up the box and service! Should be next week sometimes after Halloween. I did ask Verizon FIOS about the TV service. She said, they cant offer TV service yet because they waiting on the city of Fort Wayne officials to reach a agreement. HMMM!! Tell those morons officials to hurry up!!! Once that happens, then my home would final be rid of Comcast after all these years!! Been paying $80 per month for digital cable and $45 per month for high speed internet. My cable bill would be cut in half, but my high speed internet would be the same price but with double download speed.

• When Verizon came to my workplace, they had a map of the area and the different sections of the city marked off. The south and south east sections of Fort Wayne weren't suppose to be ready by the end of the year. I don't remember though what the exact boundary lines were. I think they were more towards teh east of Lafayette or maybe even to the east of Anthony. I though the Calhoun area was going to be available because I was thinking my church could upgrade our frame relay DSL line to fiber.