Ravi Nanavati

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• February 3, 2009, on Verizon FiOS Versus Comcast:

  I think the value of FiOS vs Comcast depends on the technical savvy of the customer. If you know how, you can put your own wireless router after the Actiontec (and disable wireless on it), get your DNS elsewhere and otherwise tweak things so that FiOS does better. If not, then Comcast provides a better out-of-the-box customer experience. Similar considerations apply to FiOS TV. From what I can tell both the Comcast-provided and Verizon-provided DVRs are poor quality. If you want a TiVo (like I do), with Comcast you can either rent a lower-quality TiVo monthly or hook up your own with Cablecards (and it works once you beat them into giving you the cards). With FiOS you can also use a TiVo (though they don't have a TiVo rental option), but you'll likely have to worry about RF attenuators if you want to prevent intermittent glitches on some of your channels... Once you fix that, the FiOS picture quality is better (since they don't reduce the bitrate of their feeds), but until you do... ...