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> Heck Verizon FiOS offers fiber to the home in NYC and has speeds of 300Mbit/s Where? The entire time I've lived in NYC, in neighborhoods with population dens
by pifflesnort 14y ago
> Heck Verizon FiOS offers fiber to the home in NYC and has speeds of 300Mbit/s
Where? The entire time I've lived in NYC, in neighborhoods with population density between 30k to 70k people per square mile, I've never, ever, ever had FIOS available to me.
Sure, I've heard about the rare building that has it, but as far as I can tell, it's marketing with just enough actual deployment that we can't call it vaporware.
- nlh 14y agoI suppose I'm one of the lucky ones. I'm on the UWS and my building got FiOS a few years ago. Started at 100Mbit, then upped it to 150 at half the price. They offer a 300Mbit service but it's $300 a month and even bandwidth-hungry I can't justify that. Some friends who live in Silver Towers (42nd St) also have it.
- jamesaguilar 14y agohttp://www22.verizon.com/local/new-york-fios/ http://www22.verizon.com/local/new-york-fios/ Google search term: verizon fios nyc. Put Manhattan in the search box on the map. Looks like a few hundred buildings in a 1 mile radius from the center of Manhattan.
- shmerl 14y agoFiOS in NY is expanding very slowly (not just in Manhattan but in all 5 boroughs). Staten Island got more coverage than most, because it's less urban. Constructing in the middle of the city is always way more expensive, and Verizon is not rushing to do it.
- king_jester 14y agoWhen you look at that map, the majority of manhattan doesn't have fios available, let alone the other boroughs.
- jamesaguilar 14y agoWhat? http://i.imgur.com/r6ZJny0.png http://i.imgur.com/r6ZJny0.png Looking at that map, it's not clear at all that Manhattan doesn't have coverage. And this is only what's within a two mile radius of the center.
- pifflesnort 14y agoIt only looks like a lot when you're not zoomed in. The density here is very, very, very high. The vast majority of buildings aren't covered.
- insaneirish 14y ago> Where? The entire time I've lived in NYC, in neighborhoods with population density between 30k to 70k people per square mile, I've never, ever, ever had FIOS available to me. You likely lived in an MDU (multiple dwelling unit), i.e. an apartment. FiOS requires the building owner to enter into an agreement with Verizon. It doesn't cost the owner anything, but they have to let Verizon in the door, since Verizon deploys new equipment. Typically it's an MDU ONT (Optical Network Terminal) capable of delivering voice, data, and video over existing infrastructure in the building. In an older building, this typically means that the last 100-1000 feet of your data service is VDSL (over legacy two pair copper) or MoCA (effectively a capable modem over coax).
- badgar 14y ago> You likely lived in an MDU (multiple dwelling unit), i.e. an apartment. Which is, like, nobody in new york city. Quit complaining everyone!
- apaprocki 14y agoVerizon has to do construction work to wire a building. You call them up if you want them to do a survey, board approves and they do construction at no cost.
- shmerl 14y agoFor that the fiber has to be at least at some distance from the building street already. It's not the case in the vast majority of places in NY.
- mtalantikite 14y agoYeah, agreed -- I've been waiting for about 5 years for it at my place in park slope and it only became available a couple months ago. A while back they told me the fiber had been in the avenues for a long time, but the hinderance was running the fiber from the avenues to the back yard utility poles. Specifically, they needed to get permission and backyard access from every owner on the block to pull cable. Knowing how notoriously difficult it is to get a landlord to do anything in NYC, I imagine this was no easy scheduling task.
- ritchiea 14y agoDitto, I wish I could sign up for fios