In article , "Mr.
Luddite" says...

"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.

When Comcast came to our office park, they ran fiber optics throughout
the park, 7 different office buildings, through the existing conduit.
Then once inside the buildings (3 or 4 stories, lot's of suites) they
could run where ever anybody wanted it. It was pretty interesting.