Surfing the big wave....

[Moonliner]

It took almost six hours and five holes cut into my drywall but I'm finally up and surfing the web fiber optic style with Verizon Fios. The installers were great. They installed the NID on the outside wall and it's power supply in the basement. Of course my home Network Operations Center (NOC) is located on the main floor opposite where the NID was installed. Their first option was to run the LAN cable across the front of the house. Ahh No. I don't think so. Next they wanted to go through the attic, out the other side and around the front of the house. Ahh No. So their next "idea" was to run it through the house. Yes! That works. So that's the way we went. They were trying to fish the cable with only cutting finger sized holes in the drywall, I was getting impatient and kept grabbing my own drywall saw and cutting larger holes. Overall they were very professional and accommodating as long as I was willing to push them a bit.

I opted for the relatively tame 5MB down / 2MB up package with a static IP.

Next week they come back to install the Fios TV. I'll post a review if anyone is interested....