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[glatt]

Did you try to get FIOS?

[Shawnee123]

I live in hicksville. Well, not really hicksville because I think there really is a town named that and it isn't where I live. But suffice to say, on the outskirts of a smallish town where apparently AT&T won't go.

@glatt: I dunno. I don't even know what that is!

[glatt]

Originally Posted by Shawnee123

@glatt: I dunno. I don't even know what that is!

FIOS is the latest greatest fiber optic connection. Very fast and about the same cost as cable, depending on how your package comes bundled. We get like 2 offers a week for Verizon to hook us up. They bundle TV/Internet, or TV/Internet/Phone all in one package. I only want internet thought, and they don't offer that as a stand alone product, so I stick with DSL. Which is much faster than dial-up, but not super fast.

But if you already have cable and phone, it's pretty tempting to switch everything over to FIOS and get all three for like $100 a month through the fiber optic cable.

I've never used satellite, but I understand there is a time lag while you wait for the signal to go up into outer space 26,000 miles away and bounce back down to the provider and then the response to shoot back up to the satellite and back down to you. Other than that lag, the speeds are pretty fast. Like streaming a movie should be fine, but surfing around clicking on stuff would be slow.