By: Jennine Tussey

Jennine Tussey — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:28:37 +0000

Honostly verizon is not a good service in my opinion. The technician who set up the cable box in my room uplugged my modem and my tv tuner and used my computer without my knowledge and left me to clean up his mess for 1. My family actually switched over from comcast. Who ever agrees with verizon FIOS that you get faster speeds then comcast, you are dead wrong. My speeds dropped 10mbs download and 6mbs upload switching over. The router/modem is a bad choice with low range and cannot handle more than 2 connections at once. Sometimes the wireless assistant in the router has actually crashed due to “overload” of connections in the router and that is a load of ****. That’s another thing with the router/modem…..you cannot buy a better router to connect to the modem/router like in comcast, since verizon decided to combine both a router and a modem together you can’t upgrade your range easily. I find that a HUGE engineering flaw on their part because for people who actually know a thing or two about computers and electronics cannot easily upgrade, we still can upgrade the range but not as well as buying a more supported router, alls we can do is maybe uprade the attena for more range. If anyone has checked speed tests, they should know comcast boost is actually much faster than verizon, even with a direct connection to the verizon modem, comcast wins. I used to recieve 2200 kb/s on my downloads from websites, now i recieve a mere 300 kb/s taking almost an additional hour longer for many files. As well as my download speeds, videos that used to take mere minutes to load, take 2 + hours now with verizon (megavideo.com). I also find the Verizon FIOS TV very unorganized menus and very low detail into the menus compared to comcast with from what i see more to offer and much more organized. My friend now has verizon workers in his neighboorhood, just installing the FIOS cables in the yard, they don’t ask the people in the neighboorhood they just do it, and the day they were working in his yard…..his comcast internet was dropped and they just go around marking your lawns throughout the neighboorhood without permission from the actual residents. Every logical and well informed technology orianted person i know (more than u would expect) all have the same opinion as I to verizon, I have never heard a good review about Verizon FIOS personally and I have asked many people about it, all complete **** reviews. I will admit Verizon Wireless for cell phones is very successful and well organized and just incredible, but as far as verizon internet and Television, I find many engineering flaws in both and do not understand their resoning and how they expect to compete with comcast with how their systems work. Anyway that’s my rant, if you actually read all this good for you. Please no hate comments, this is merely my own opinion.