It’s been a week since we got FIOS installed and so far so good. We got a guy who knew what he was doing when he installed it. That’s always a good start. He did a lot of work in 5 hours, but the TV, internet and phone worked right off the bat.

Internet is crazy fast, not that optimum cable was slow. FIOS just outclasses it, especially the upload speeds. You can skip around in videos and it almost never buffers. The new FIOS router wanted nothing to do with the bridge attached to my 360, so I replaced the bridge with a new Linksys bridge. Not the ideal scenario as it cost me $100, but it worked right away, it’s got a good connection strength and the bandwidth is definitely improved so the 360 is cruising right now.

Phone works just as well on the cable system, nothing worth mentioning there. The TV service is really great. Menus load in less than a second and they don’t look like they were designed in 1999. And! Stuff that is supposed to be in Dolby Digital 5.1 (like movie channels) actually comes through the receiver as DD 5.1! No audio or visual artifacts either. The TV service just looks and feels like a step above Cablevision. So it’s a thumbs up for the service so far.