{"id":222,"date":"2008-12-07T22:31:18","date_gmt":"2008-12-08T05:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/?p=222"},"modified":"2008-12-07T22:31:18","modified_gmt":"2008-12-08T05:31:18","slug":"verizon-fios-in-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/?p=222","title":{"rendered":"Verizon FIOS in Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s here.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ve heard nothing but good things, and was about done with the outages and poor customer service at Time Warner cable.\u00c2\u00a0 So I did it &#8211; and this is no small deal.\u00c2\u00a0 I have digital TV, DVR, phone ANd Internet ALL through Time Warner.\u00c2\u00a0 But I did it anyway.<\/p>\n<p>First step after signing up was to get the actual fiber pulled from the pole to the house, done by a different team than the Verizon installer.\u00c2\u00a0 That took a week to schedule, but installed no problem once they were out.\u00c2\u00a0 Then came the install.\u00c2\u00a0 I got an 8-10am install window last Thursday, and was told to play 4-6 hours for installation, and an extra two if I was getting TV AND Internet.\u00c2\u00a0 No way would it take that long, I thought.\u00c2\u00a0 Actually, it did.\u00c2\u00a0 The guy showed up at 8am and left at 3pm.\u00c2\u00a0 7 hours.\u00c2\u00a0 Oh &#8211; but worth it.<\/p>\n<p>So now I have 4 TVs with boxes, 3 of hem with HD and DVR.\u00c2\u00a0 I have Internet phone, with my old number ported over, and Internet that is just about exactly FOUR TIMES FASTER than it was before.\u00c2\u00a0 I actually tested before and after the install.\u00c2\u00a0 Time Warner:\u00c2\u00a0 5750 Kbps down, 485 up.\u00c2\u00a0 Verizon:\u00c2\u00a0 19518 down, 4488 up.\u00c2\u00a0 Crazy.<\/p>\n<p>Best part of all?\u00c2\u00a0 $50 a month LESS than Time Warner.\u00c2\u00a0 So yeah.\u00c2\u00a0 Recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s here.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ve heard nothing but good things, and was about done with the outages and poor customer service at Time Warner cable.\u00c2\u00a0 So I did it &#8211; and this is no small deal.\u00c2\u00a0 I have digital TV, DVR, phone ANd Internet ALL through Time Warner.\u00c2\u00a0 But I did it anyway. First step after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223,"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions\/223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}