Will be down when you have a power outage. It will not supply power to your modem/router, so your Internet Service, it is used to power the ONT and supply power to the phone lines Just to re-iterate, the battery back-up is used only for the phone A standard installation requires the battery even if phone service has been declined. I found this interesting because the battery is there for legacy reasons - to ensure you have phone service in the case of an emergency and during a power outage. The battery back-up system must be installed even though I declined the phone service. This is nice because it meant no wiring changes inside the house, thankfully! The Comcast/Xfinity service was disconnected from my house (see bottom of Figure 1) and the house co-axial cable was connected to the FiOS ONT box. The battery back-up system is powered by a standard mains AC electrical socket. The installer connected the ONT (Optical Network Terminal) to the side of my house (see Figure 1 below) and a battery back-up device (see Figure 2) inside the garage which powers the ONT box. Note: It never ceases to amaze me how much trouble those little CableCards cause for descrambling digital TV channels. Time to get my TiVo working with the FiOS TV service. On the day of my install it took the installerĪbout 2 hours to get everything up and running. In terms of the actual installation, a team appeared a couple of days before my installation date to connect the fiber from the street to the side of my house. Service can result in significant savings. Package sounds enticing but as you will see later in this article, using VoIP for phone I finally took the plunge this year (2013) and signed upįor the Frontier double play package, Internet and TV. To be painful for them, most likely due to teething problems with theĪcquisition. Also, some neighbors switched to Frontier and the billing seemed I was reluctant to switch over at the time mainly because of my contract with Comcast and because its service at that time was working for me. Specifically Washington State and Oregon. In addition, streaming movies became problematic due to the shared bandwidth with neighbors.įrontier came into our neighborhood around 2009 after acquiring the Verizon FiOS technology for certain areas in the Northwest, Over the last 6 months of my service with Comcast my Internet speed would drop significantly for no apparent reason and my VoIP service would suffer in terms of call quality. This got old after many years but for me the real issue was speed, or more precisely consistency of service. That's when the "dance" begins, calling them or visiting their local office and having to negotiate a better deal. Previously I used Comcast/Xfinity for my Internet service for many years but I got tired of the "pricing dance" that everyone seems to go through with them i.e. Also, if you go down this path, some setup recommendations are documented to ensure high quality audio for your phone calls.įirst of all, a small disclaimer, I personally use Frontier FiOS at home in Washington state and love it. Home phone service, great savings can be made on your monthly bill. By utilizing a third party VoIP company for phone service rather than signing up for the triple play package, which adds Frontier's The purpose of this article is to give a background on this service and installation but more importantly, show how additional savings can be made. Another advantage is it future-proofs your home from a technology standpoint as the capacity for transferring data is much greater over fiber optics than copper wire. In your neighborhood and your Internet speed drops significantly. If you have ever had a shared Internet service you will understand the importance of this point, for example at weekends when kids are streaming Netflix movies The Internet bandwidth is very consistent since it is not shared by a neighborhood hub. Homes on the Western side of the U.S and offers fiber optic cable from the Central Office direct to your home. Frontier Fiber Optic Service (referred to as Frontier FiOS) is available to many
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