On Sun, 8 Apr 2018, Jim Garrison wrote:
I'm considering dumping Comcast and going with Frontier FiOS. I have a couple of questions for anyone who's using FiOS in the Hillsboro, OR area.
Jim, I'm a long shout from you here in Troutdale but offer answers based on my recent experiences with them.
1) Do they bring fiber all the way to the modem or is there an interface outside that converts to coax for the internal connections?
The installer mounted two boxes: on the outside is an optical converter and in the inside is a box that handles both the copper wire phone and the fiber-to-ethernet connection. I've a cat5 cable from the internal box to my router. The installer offered a WiFi router but I did not need that because I have one (as a WAP) and two ethernet routers (one backup).
2) Can you run the modem in bridge mode? I have my own Linux iptables-based firewall/router and my own wireless AP and would prefer that the modem be a passive device. While Comcast doesn't "officially" support bridge mode they allow full access to the modem config and it works fine in bridge mode.
Yep. At least with a business account. As I wrote above, from the internal box (with its internal backup battery) I have a cat5 cable because I buy the 15/5 mbps service and not a higher speed/more costly service. They may have different offers for residential service in addition to not providing a static IP address, so your experiences might be different from mine. Despite some easily-fixed (with sufficient phone calls) glitches I'm highly satisfied with the speed and service. Overall, I'm saving about $10/month from when I had Frontier ADSL and SpiritOne (feh!) for an ISP. And, The transfer speeds are 5 times faster. Regards, Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
