Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  Installing Verizon FIOS fiber-optic Internet service to my house (14 Sep 2005) Yesterday I had Verizon's FIOS fiber-optic Internet service installed at my home. As I pointed out on my blog a few times (see last November 9th, January 28th and February 4th for the reports and pictures), Verizon has been putting up cables all over my city, Newton, Massachusetts. A few weeks ago they started taking orders for installation. I hesitated to order it at first, since my cable modem connection was flakey after a rainstorm (they replaced the cable modem with a new one more tolerant of bad signals or something and other upgrades) and I like having backup (the fiber is replacing a DSL connection) and I wanted to have a week or two of stability before I tried something new in place of the DSL. Also, I have a custom setup in the house and depending upon what they needed, I might end up with cables and stuff where I didn't want it in the house unless I did the right preparations. Article URL: http://www.bricklin.com/fiosinstall.htm Read 71 more articles from Dan Bricklin sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: The Truth About Google's so-called "simplicity"     This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy