How does verizon fios work?

[chensonnyy]

New to fiber optic internet, anything i should know before switching to Verizon Fios?

 

[carltonje]

fiber is just another way to connect to the web. it uses fiber cable versus copper and has higher bandwidth density. it allows for faster speeds though which is your favor. you don't need any other special equipment though which is good. stand by for faster speed.

 

[chensonnyy]

fiber is just another way to connect to the web. it uses fiber cable versus copper and has higher bandwidth density. it allows for faster speeds though which is your favor. you don't need any other special equipment though which is good. stand by for faster speed.

Is it wireless? And i heard fios doesnt require a modem, only their router (which they are providing to me)

 

[Gam3r01]

Its wired, fiber optic wire to be exact.
For you, no need to do anything special.
Also, its the opposite, you dont need a router, their modem is a 2in1.

 

[chensonnyy]

Its wired, fiber optic wire to be exact.
For you, no need to do anything special.
Also, its the opposite, you dont need a router, their modem is a 2in1.

So if i wanted to connect my pc to the internet, i would need to connect my pc to the modem via an ethernet cable? What about my mobile devices?

 

[Gam3r01]

Their modem/router they will provide you has the capability of a hardware connection and also acts as a router, providing wifi to all your devices.
I mistakenly thought you asked if the fios itself was wireless, as in outside of your home.

 

[chensonnyy]

Their modem/router they will provide you has the capability of a hardware connection and also acts as a router, providing wifi to all your devices.
I mistakenly thought you asked if the fios itself was wireless, as in outside of your home.

So basically, it uses fiber cable instead of copper, so technically its still wired (outside my home). But i could still use it for wireless connection for WiFi (inside my home), as well as wired connection for my Pc? I just want to clear things up, thanks.

 

[Gam3r01]

Yes

 

[jsmithepa]

As long as the ISP gives me a public IP am happy. Keep it simple and stupid and let me use my own firewall, my own WIFI router blah-blah.

 

[Jon York]

Here's really all you need to know. I got it a couple of weeks ago and I would post an awesome Speedtest image but Tom's apparently doesn't allow for media uploads. But the speeds I got were:

DOWNLOAD: 941.32
UPLOAD: 952.98 !!!

I run web servers and often have to download backups of whole servers, then I sometimes have to re-upload them. This whole process on a medium-size server could take up to 24 hours round trip. I just did it the other night as a test and it took 37 minutes to download and 32 minutes to re-upload for a total of 1 hour & 9 minutes! Really amazing.