Comcast out – Fios in

I finally did it.  Verizon came out on Wednesday and installed Fios @ 15Mb down and 2Mb up.  Regular web surfing is really not that much different, but downloading things is amazing.  The difference when I bring down podcasts, purchase music, and watch Lost from the ABC.com web site changes everything.  Lost was very smooth and made me believe this could replace television for the first time in a long time.

The installation went pretty smooth, and the only thing I had an issue with was my Vonage phone service.  The calls kept breaking up every 15-30 seconds.  There would be a pause in the conversation for 1 second.  It was frustrating.  I tried all sorts of port forwarding with the ActionTec router but nothing worked.  I was going to just put my Airport Extreme base station back in place of the ActionTec but I forgot that I agreed to us the MoCa connection so that the Fios signal would use my internal home cable network.  This was there was no extra wiring that needed done.

I resolved the issue by going in to the ActionTec firewall settings and lowering the filtering down to low, which lets everything in and out.  Then I connected the ActionTec to my Airport Extreme base station and was back in business.

So far I am one happy Fios customer.