Fiber Optics to your house, do many Cocooners have it?

[spintop1]

I'm wondering how widespread this technology is, do other Cocooners have similar setups?

I had our local telecom company install a fiber optic link into my house last week. It's a new setup offered by BellAliant here in eastern Canada, they call it FiberOP. They pulled a terminated cable from the pole underground into my wiring closet. There's a pile of new kit in there now. They supplied a UPS, a fiberoptic transceiver, a wireless router and a slack box for the excess fiber optic cable.

I went with the IPTV setup as well as the internet. Previously I was getting 1- 3MBPS down and .5MBPS up on the DSL link and now I'm getting 30MBPS down and 12 up.

Apparently they don't have the phone system approved for use on the Fiber yet, I guess it has something to do with power outages and 911 availability.

So is this common?

 

[gatchel]

One of the services in the US is called FIOS by Verizon. It's a FTTH service. I love it. I also loved kicking Comcast Cable to the curb once FIOS became available.
I have 20 down 5 up but its mostly 20/20 if you run speed checks. Our telephone comes over this connection too. We aren't using the video portion just yet.

 

[apostolakisl]

ATT offers u-verse in parts of town. Not at my house however. They are putting it mostly in mid-priced tract house areas I assum becuase there are lots of houses in a small area with people who have decent incomes.

About 8 months ago ATT dug a bunch of holes going down our street. They said they were doing it to put U-verse in (that's what the tech said when I asked on my morning jog), however, all the holes are filled back in for 6 months and no u-verse for sale. They did put in a nice new box at the beginning of the street with what looks like back up power and stuff all nicely perched on a big pad and fresh grass. Our street is not high density, we have 7 acres and that is about average, so. . .who knows. But no u-verse for sale, and not even dsl. I really only have one choice, road runner.

 

[tmbrown97]

In my neck of the woods, u-verse is run over copper still I believe; but FIOS is one I'm well aware of that does all that; and we have a local carrier named SureWest who installs fiber all over town (I'm a reseller agent with them) and can do amazing speeds - like 50mb/10mb for less than a T1, and partition voice, video, etc over it.

I also live in a unique neighborhood... it's a master-planned community of 3,000 homes, and during construction every single home was wired with a fiber network connection - intended to serve as a private community network and internet in one; they have a contract with a small ISP and include internet to every house in the community, whether you want it or not... it's paid for out of your HOA dues (equates to about $35/month for 10mb/2mb) and you can add phone on top... I think I'd prefer Verizon or Surewest if I had the option, but it's honestly not bad for what it is - it's been pretty reliable and fast enough for me (not quite as good as comcast, but cheaper).

It really is the way to go - fiber can do so much more than copper.

 

[standon]

I used to have FiOS, I liked the service a lot. When I moved a couple miles away, no more FiOS from Verizon.

I decided to bite the bullet and pay $99 a month for my 101/15 cable from Optimum. Although I rarely get the 101Mb/s advertised, it's still pretty darn speedy.

 

[Del91574]

We've got both flavors in my area, either FIOS or Uverse. Uverse can either be fiber to the house/street or copper from the pole/node. FIOS is still limited around here and it's not unheard of for them to make a HO pay for the fiber run from the house to the street.

 

[pete_c]

I switched over from Verizon/DSL to Verizon FIOS a couple of years back in FL. The service is good and I have had no issues with it. It is the combo Internet, Telephone and TV package. I like though that we have a choice of either Comcast or FIOS there. Here in the Midwest we only have the choice of Comcast. There was talk about AT&T Uverse but nothing yet.

I like the idea of having an ISP cutting a deal with the HOA group. Here we are in a small subdivision of 100 homes. Our dues though have gone from $200 a year to current $150 a year. That in itself though really wouldn't cover internet access; as the majority of the spend today is related to just landscaping stuff. In FL the subdivision is only 50 homes; but the dues are $500 per year and it covers less landscaping; but repaves two streets out of three every few years.

Very impressive speeds there standon. Here with Comcast its only 20 down and 5 up.