On 9/17/13 10:01 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote:


"F.O.A.D." wrote in message
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On 9/17/13 8:54 AM, Wayne.B wrote:
On Tue, 17 Sep 2013 08:33:31 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

Every so often, I think about converting from cable to dish, but the two
dish companies here seem unwilling or incapable of distributing info
that is clear and understandable.

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Satellite TV service is very susceptible to thunderstorm outages.
Fiber optic is the way to go if they have it in your area.


Verizon keeps talking about FIOS around here, but it isn't delivering.
It likes population density, which we don't have.

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Verizon FIOS is available in our area. They were promoting "free"
hookups if you signed on for several years, so we checked into it.
Our house is located about 500 feet from the road and all the utilities
(cable, electric) are buried underground in conduit that was installed
when the house was built. The Verizon guy shook his head. They would
only do a "free" overhead run which was impossible because there are no
telephone poles anywhere.





Our little private road and the public road that leads into it have
underground electric, telephone, and standard cable. The public road
leads to a regular service county road and then about a third of a mile
away, a state road. The county road, much, much older, has overhead
electric and telephone and, I presume, cable.

A year or so ago, I saw the cable infrastructure installers using their
equipment to run optical cable to the two public schools on the state
road, but they didn't go any farther. None of the feeder roads directly
connected to the state road got optical cable, either.