FIOS update - news for Flower Mounders
- Check out new channel 35 on your FIOS service. That's the Town of Flower Mound channel (channel 15 on the old Comcast service). Am I just imagining, or does the signal on the FIOS Flower Mound channel look clearer than what we had with Comcast? Now I can watch Council meetings again!
- Also, there's a new local weather channel on 49, which will compete with the Weatherplus local service on 850. I still liked having the radar/NWS radio channel on Comcast, but I like saving $20 a month on service even better - and that's why I'm on FIOS.
- One more thing -- we have three dual-tuner DVR FIOS boxes in our house, and a fourth standard box (one-tuner, no HD capability). The standard box has consistently needed to be reset for some reason, requiring repeated calls to FIOS tech support. After the third reset request, I asked them what was going on. They said there was a bug in the programming for the standard FIOS box, and that it might be several weeks before it's fixed. After a little badgering on my part, they've allowed me to swap the defective standard box with a dual-tuner DVR box (so now I have four of those). They're giving it to me for free for six months. If I don't swap it after then, I'll be billed at the current rate for that box -- if they've fixed the bug by then.
Have you switched to FIOS? Did you save money? How's the service been at your house? Are you glad you switched?
posted by Chip Mahaney @ 7:26 PM
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4 Comments:
Chip, you're scaring me a bit as we are just under two weeks away from our big switch to FIOS. I'm definitely going to ask about the box problem.
We got a good deal when we called Verizon to sign up for FIOS. We got a better deal the very next day when Verizon had door-to-door salesmen roaming our neighborhood. (either that or my wife is just one heck of a deal-maker) Within 20 minutes, my wife had canceled the order she placed the night before and let this guy re-order for us with a free box for a year and a free month of high speed internet.
We just got FiOS internet last week. So far we like it, much faster downloading mp3's and such. I believe we got one month free and it's $5 less per month than we were paying for DSL.
We don't have cable or satellite TV for 2 reasons. 1) We'd watch too much TV if we had it and 2) We're too cheap to pay for it.
Chip,
The picture is much better on FIOS than the DISH Network. I also have trouble with my SD box as it needs resetting about once every three weeks. I simply unplug the power cord for a couple of minutes and it will clear up the problem.
I love fios - I had verizon dsl and switched to fios the second it became available. I then switched from Directv to Verizon. No more outages during storms!
I have one dvr box and a standard box - I also have to unplug and reset it periodically.
LindaJ
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