On 8/16/2017 10:13 AM, trader_4 wrote:


The other pretty big thing they've been putting outside is the FIOS
(fiber optic) cable box.

My DSL keeps taking breaks of some sort. Sometimes the webradio (a
separate program) will play for long periods of time with no
interruption, while the web seems to stop, even email will sometimes
stop. OTOH, sometimes the webradio sometimes stops while the other
things work fine.

A) If I had FIOS would that solve things?
B) Is Verizon intentionally messing with DSL to get people to change to
FIOS, or was it always like this?


In some areas around here Verizon stopped installing FIOS. It may fix
your problems but talk to your neighbors that have it to see how well it
works for them.

Do you mean that Verizon stopped installing FIOS to new areas not
already served or that V stopped installing it for new customers
in areas that already have it? I thought they just stopped deploying
it to new areas and that occured several years ago.

I don't have FIOS, but I would expect it would be very reliable and fast
like cable internet. DSL has inherent big problems, it tries to use new
tech to push data over old wires.


Both for a while. They had problems in at least one area but that may
have changed. ATT also slowed and perhaps stopped in new areas. They
also sold off their landline service to Frontier.