Dan Winkler

A member of the Philip Greenspun's Homepage community since February 3, 2009

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February 3, 2009, on Verizon FiOS Versus Comcast:
1. You don't have to use the Actiontec router. Any router will work. I learned this from Verizon when my Actiontec broke while out of warranty. Now I use an Apple Airport Extreme with 802.11n wireless networking. You might have to call Verizon tech support and ask them to "break the DHCP lease" when you change routers or wait long enough for that to happen automatically. Note: I only have FiOS Internet, not TV. Maybe for TV the Actiontec is required? 2. In my town (Millis), the politicians have been bought for $5/month. Comcast pays the town $5 per subscriber per month which amounts to about a quarter million dollars per year. The town uses this for their community access channels, which are usually a big waste of time. They consume three channels and mostly just display text about upcoming town events (animated so as to be extra annoying, swirling and rotating into frame and doing a much worse job of displaying information than a web page would). They also televise var...