What Are You Doing Right Now
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Have FiOS at work and home.
At work, its a ethernet hand-off. Plug it into your firewall and you're done.
My home installation comes to a box on the side of the house as fiber then coax into the house. I had to purchase their router for like $100. For the tv, you rent their equipment. If i remember right, the dvr is 15 bucks and a standard hi-def box is 9 bucks per month.
I looked into purchasing my own receivers but verizon doesn't sell them. Tivo receivers work but from my research it takes years to start actually saving unless you get a sweet price on used equipment that hast lifetime service. You still have to pay 5 bucks to verizon for a CableCARD to use a tivo.
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@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Because with cable internet, the gear that they lease or sell you is overpriced crap.
But they don't sell or lease anything with FiOS.
Which is why I inquired about that equipment. Fiber is supposedly "on the way", so I was wondering about the equipment deal... like should I be watching for a sale price on anything in particular.
Such as? I just use the Ubiquiti.
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@tiagom said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
My home installation comes to a box on the side of the house as fiber then coax into the house. I had to purchase their router for like $100. For the tv, you rent their equipment. If i remember right, the dvr is 15 bucks and a standard hi-def box is 9 bucks per month.
That's really weird. Mine is Ethernet at home.
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Working in downtown Syracuse like...
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So, has anyone else noticed the unread notification works if you bybass cloudflare and go straight to direct.mangolassi.it? Just noticed that today.
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@brianlittlejohn said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
So, has anyone else noticed the unread notification works if you bybass cloudflare and go straight to direct.mangolassi.it? Just noticed that today.
Oh weird. No, did not ever notice that.
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@scottalanmiller Something with cloudflare may be blocking it....
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@BRRABill said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
It's a little complicated because their TV service also runs through the box they give you. But I think you can. You can definitely buy one through them.
That's only complicated if we aren't talking about Internet.
Buy one through them? Are you sure? I don't believe that I have that option. It's just included. There is no modem as there is no analogue line here. It's an Ethernet handoff. Nothing needed, it goes straight to your firewall.
It was in my original post on this. $60 for your own router.
You need that if you want TV. Doesn't work without it, I don't believe.
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@BRRABill said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@BRRABill said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
It's a little complicated because their TV service also runs through the box they give you. But I think you can. You can definitely buy one through them.
That's only complicated if we aren't talking about Internet.
Buy one through them? Are you sure? I don't believe that I have that option. It's just included. There is no modem as there is no analogue line here. It's an Ethernet handoff. Nothing needed, it goes straight to your firewall.
It was in my original post on this. $60 for your own router.
You need that if you want TV. Doesn't work without it, I don't believe.
YOu always need your own firewall. But that's separate from the bridge (modem.)
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@scottalanmiller said
That's really weird. Mine is Ethernet at home.
Do you also have TV through them?
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@scottalanmiller said
YOu always need your own firewall. But that's separate from the bridge (modem.)
There isn't a modem, per se, with FiOS.
In my house (as in most I have seen) it comes in to this box as COAX.
The box (router) does wireless, hard wired, and runs the cable boxes.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Because with cable internet, the gear that they lease or sell you is overpriced crap.
But they don't sell or lease anything with FiOS.
Which is why I inquired about that equipment. Fiber is supposedly "on the way", so I was wondering about the equipment deal... like should I be watching for a sale price on anything in particular.
Such as? I just use the Ubiquiti.
I meant the modem side. I use a Motorola Surfboard instead of the BS from comcrap. I didn't realize that fiber was just an ethernet handoff, that negates my question kinda. I have all the firewall/router stuff to connect to the handoff.
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@RojoLoco said
I meant the modem side. I use a Motorola Surfboard instead of the BS from comcrap. I didn't realize that fiber was just an ethernet handoff, that negates my question kinda. I have all the firewall/router stuff to connect to the handoff.
But that isn't always true.
Are you just getting Internet? Then it might be true.
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Conference with devs and management, nearly 10 hours...
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@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Conference with devs and management, nearly 10 hours...
10 hours until the conference, or it took 10 hours for the meeting?
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@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Conference with devs and management, nearly 10 hours...
That's a LONG time for everyone to not be working.
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@BRRABill said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@RojoLoco said
I meant the modem side. I use a Motorola Surfboard instead of the BS from comcrap. I didn't realize that fiber was just an ethernet handoff, that negates my question kinda. I have all the firewall/router stuff to connect to the handoff.
But that isn't always true.
Are you just getting Internet? Then it might be true.
Of course... never bundle things with your iSP!
That and I've never paid for television.
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@scottalanmiller said
Of course... never bundle things with your iSP!
That and I've never paid for television.
Bah.
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Just started FLOSS Weekly live, and Nextcloud is on today!
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@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Conference with devs and management, nearly 10 hours...
10 hours until the conference, or it took 10 hours for the meeting?
it took 10 hours
