[PANTUGGeneral] 15/2 Verizon FiOS install experience (2006-10-12)
JP Vossen
Still working fine. On the other hand my next-door-neighbor got FiOS
but they were unable to get his Vonage to work, and he got pissed and
went back to Comcast before I had a chance to go over and T-Shoot (since
my Vonage works great).
Note that Mike mentioned something about dual coax "streams," one from
the NID (network interface device) and one from the router. He was
right, I'd never noticed before since I don't use FiOS TV.
My ActionTec router (wireless, Firewall, etc. pretty nice device
actually), has Ethernet WAN in and 4x Ethernet LAN out, WLAN, and coax
out. But the NID (see the last pic with it open) also has a coax out
next to the POTS terminals.
See my previous message about FiOS TCP/IP settings:
http://groups.google.com/group/pantug/browse_thread/thread/981155cc83c3c699
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [PANTUGGeneral] Verizon FiOS install experience
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 15:46:43 -0400
From: JP Vossen <j...@jpsdomain.org>
To: PANTUG...@pantug.org
Stear, Brad wrote:
> Are you having any issues doing VPN over [Verizon residential 15/2 $45/mo FiOS]?
No, my Check Point SecuRemote client is fine. I had to punch some holes
in my firewall a long time ago when we switched to it, but it has worked
fine over both Comcast residential and the new FiOS.
> How was the Customer Service experience ordering it?
OK. Someone came door-to-door to talk about it late Summer, and I let
her sign me up, though I'd been thinking about it anyway. She sort-of
had a clue, but I lost her when talking about static IPs and ToS.
By the way, I've NEVER been able to find the ToS on the web site. It
seems you only get it once everything is set and you are about to active
the service. So I saved it and it's attached.
The guy who put the conduit from the box at the sidewalk to the house
did what I consider to be a sloppy job. The installers also did a
sloppy job getting from the conduit to the inside. Inside they did OK.
PA120022.JPG and PA120023.JPG are outside, and you can see the orange
conduit, the black fiber from it into just a hole in the siding (grrrr),
then the white wire back out that hole to the old NID (Network Interface
Device for Plain Old Telephone Service (POTS)). That wire is no longer
needed since I switched that line to Vonage too, but at the time I
hadn't. So the copper and NID are still there, but not being used.
PA120026.JPG and PA120027.JPG are inside. The installers showed up with
the boxes mounted on the board like you see. The top unit is the 4 hour
battery backup, the bottom is the new Optical Network Terminal (ONT).
At the bottom of the ONT, cables left to right are: fiber, power,
Ethernet to my firewall, POTS copper back out to the external NID (no
longer used).
PA120028.JPG is the router/firewall/wireless/etc. gadget they gave me,
also not used. Behind that is my RCA cable modem for Comcast and next
to that is my Vonage adapter. People with too much time on their hands
may also notice some piezo buzzers on the shelf that I was messing with
in conjunction with my alarm system.
As I noted previously, I got only about 5/1.2 when they first installed
it, and I had to "optimize" the computers to get 15/1.7. See my other
message for the specific settings. The installers knew very little
about the PC end of things, but were not bad on the physical stuff.
Bottom line, everything went about as well as could be expected (given
that it's Verizon, pretty new, etc.) if not as neatly as I'd have liked.
> Any issues yet?
None. Yet. And you better not have made me jinx myself!!! :-)
Later,
JP
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