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could anyone who is experienced with both verizon DSL and optimum tell me some of the pros and cons and which one you prefer. verizon used to freeze very often and it got much better any comments/info?
i have optimum & love the fast service-it works wonders with mozilla firefox!!! optimum is way faster then dsl!!!!
Come on Mariner…haven’t heard from you for ages. This is your expertise!
asdfghjkl, WOW, and we all believed you were in Ireland postin’ at 3 in the mornin’!!!
Optimum is only available in the Northeastern USA!!!
Verizon’s cheapest DSL service is about $20 a month and is fast enough for the average person’s web and email use.
Cable service such as Optimum’s is much faster, but also much more expensive – last time I priced it $40 per month with cable TV, $50 a month with internet only.
For most people I recommend DSL, because you will save $200+ per year, and you don’t really need the extra speed.
If you are getting phone service from Optimum as well, it may be a different story – I never priced their combo service package.
Chuck Schwab: in my town we do get optimum!!! nice one though!!!!!!
asdfghjkl, you said you got your current sneakers at Modell’s, you miss that bakery that closed on Coney Island Ave., and now you say you use Optimum (and not Verizon, which the original poster compared it to) but you want everyone to think you are in Ireland????
Optimum is only in NY (and surrounding areas.) Its a trademark online service of cablevision, and no other internet company can use it. Unless you hired them to rum a transatlantic cable from America to Ireland…
Chuck Schwab: lol your keeping a close eye on me!!! but you missed my earlier posts posts that i’m originally from ny & work took me to ireland!!! as for the optimum thing i get it through my work….if i say anymore the mods would edit it so… nice chatting with you though!!!
If you live in a FiOS area, you can’t get DSL and the cost is about the same.
squeak: what’s a FiOS area????
Where Verizon has invested in a Fiber Optic System (FiOS).
squeak: thanx pal!!!!
Chuck Schwab- I thought Sherlock Holmes was dead?
hey noitallmr, what are you doing on here at almost 5 am in the uk??
whats the web address of this so-called optimum in ireland, of yours? cause theres the only optimum is in the good ‘ole usa.
Chuck Schwab- On Thursday’s i tend to be a night- owl…
Is that OK by you?
I have used both. Service wise, both were fine (we had FIOS) and equal for the general population.
The problem we had with verizon was the billing system!!! the bills were crazy and EVERY month they were wrong. It took forever each month to correct and each month they said it wouldnt happen the next on. Their computer system for the customer service reps were terrible and they had so much trouble trying to help us. Also, their line items on the bill make absolutely no sense so deciphering where they over charged you is a nightmare.
Finally, my husband got fed up and switched us to Cablevision. We got a similiar deal price wise, plus a $300 gift card to PC richards. We havent had any billing issues.
I also used Cablevision when we were in Brooklyn and had no trouble there either.
Chuck Schwab: this inturigation stuff of your is really getting old!!!!!
asdfghjkl, lol. c’mon admit it! your pulling all our legs; I’ll bet your around the corner from me in flatbush laughing away at your keyboard that you fooled most of us to think your in Ireland!!
kapusta-
Fios will require a Verizon technician to come down to your house and install equipment outside (so I read).
Cable also requires installation, including drilling thru an outside wall or windowframe, then running an exposed ugly cable thru your house, including thru walls.
DSL uses existing interior and exterior wiring, but requires filters between ann non-DSL appliances (phone, fax, alarm) and the phone line.
asdfghjkl, you still didn’t give us the web address of your so-called optimum provider in Ireland. oops, you slipped up… Optimum is in the USA!! time to be a nice boy and admit it, lol.
verizon dsl is the best by far together with antivirus, it works speeding.
Chuck Schwab: nope i’m honestly in ireland!!!
asdfghjkl;’
what’s the time difference to new york?
brooklyn19
5 hour difference!!!
i have dsl it works very well but you cant run to many programs at once and if tou do two things at one time it could freeze…………hatzlacha raba
whens s/o gonna have zxcvbnm as a screen name?lol
so why are u up at 4 am? neitz? i think its later now
i kew that question was goin to be real soon!!! lol!!! i survive very well on bearly any any sleep!!!
qwertyuiop, are you asdfghjkl’s brother?
Joseph: lol why would ya think so?????
cause hes right above you on the keyboard – so it’d make sense that hes your big bro…
Joseph
lol not that i know of!!!!!
asdfghjkl, give your brother a call…
Joseph
he’s just a copy catter!!!
and his kid? that’ll be lkjhgfdsa
stale joke. i know.
i would like to say im not asdfghjkl brother
dont have internet
nice one!!!!!
Joseph
my bros phone went straight to voicemail!!!!
although i wouldnt mind being his brother he seems like a nice guy
qwertyuiop
lol thanx!!! so did ya liked my screen name & decided to copy me??? jk
all Yidden are brothers…
Joseph: so we’re all related!!!
Is anyone familiar with the comparative performance between FiOS and cable internet and whether it’s worth the price differential?
What are the prices of each?
About $50 for FiOS and $40 for cable with a comparably claimed entry-level downstream speed.
Sounds like cable offers more value.
I’m wondering if cable and FiOS both actually provide their advertised speed.
Supposedly, you are sharing bandwidth with your neighbors when using cable, so FiOS speeds might be more reliable. Whether that makes enough of a difference to you depends on how you use it.
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