[bsaxton]

I currently have Comcast broadband, but I am seriously thinking about FiOS (just became a vailable in my area). I'm just wondering what others' experience with it are.

So far I have heard:

Pros:
- Higher upload speed (2Mbs) than most Comcast basic offerings (the main reason I want to switch)
- Cheaper (but Comcast will apparently make you a better offer when you try to cancel)
- Works fine with Vonage
- I just generally think fiber optics are cooler than wires - wave of the future and all...

Cons:
- They block more outgoing ports including 80 (what will I do about my network baby cam? How will I see my son from work?)
- Lower download speed (5Mbs compared to 8Mbs)
- PPPoE and lots of IP address switches - Comcast is nice and stable and I'm not sure how I feel about PPPoE - I guess as long as the router handles it and I use DynDNS, it shouldn't be a big deal.

Anyway, anyone else out there have it? If so, what do you think?

[mduell]

For your babycam, use a different port. Even with a hundred blocked you still have 65435 to choose from.

[indigoimac]

I would definently go for it, but not the base package, spring for the 15meg down and 5up, that's fast as hell and it should be about as much as comcast, just twice the speed.

[bsaxton]

Originally Posted by indigoimac

I would definently go for it, but not the base package, spring for the 15meg down and 5up, that's fast as hell and it should be about as much as comcast, just twice the speed.

Yeah, well, I'm on 1.5 teachers' budgets so I'll be going with the cheap option. I figure most servers limit your download anyway, so upping to the 10 or 15Mbs isn't that big a a deal anyway.

BRS

[Anand]

I switched to FIOS and it works great for my mac that is attached through a ethernet cable (15 MB down) but I only get 3 MB down with my airport based computers. The is with the broadband tuner installed. Anybody have any clues?