FiOS, part 1
Got my Verizon FiOS service about a week ago. I’m going to keep track of technical notes on it here, there’s not enough information out there about FiOS service yet.
The install itself was unremarkable. A service tech came ~3 days before the actual install, to run fiber to my house and mount the ONT (Optical Network Terminal). The ONT has 6 ports on it: 1 RJ45 for data, 4 RJ11 for phone, and Video. The tech also removed the old copper wires from the side of my house (they weren’t hooked up to anything, my phone is from RCN).
The installer came at 10AM on the scheduled day. Verizon tells you to plan for 4-5 hours, I figured my install would be 2 hours max because everything was very simple: it’s easy to get to the power and existing network just inside the house from the ONT.
Well, I was wrong. In the end the install took 5 1/2 hours - not because anything went wrong, but because the tech just took his time, and his lunch break, and several other breaks. He widened an existing hole in the sill of the house, and ran Cat 5 ethernet in from the ONT. He installed a battery backup unit & power out to the ONT from inside the house. And he hooked up a d-link DI-604 to the cat 5. We tested it out, ran some speed tests, and that was it.
More later.