Today has been a good day. It’s nice to have a really good thing to write about today. Verizon came by and hooked up the FiOS service today. Fiber optic internet service. I’m very happy with it. It is blazingly fast, especially compared to the Comcast service I was on previously.
I have to say that some of the people over at Verizon’s FiOS group have worked amazingly hard, above and beyond the norm, to get the service up and running. I’d specifically like to thank Danielle, over at the FiOS group, for getting all the snags in getting the service setup straightened out, and Joe, who did the actual install. They both ROCK.
Right now, my father’s computer, a Windows 2000-based box, is having a slight bandwidth issue, as the software firewall on it is acting as a bottleneck. Even though it is a fairly fast machine, a Athlon XP 2.0 GHz-based box, the software firewall appears to be causing a bottleneck. His machine seems to max out on the internet bandwidth tests at 5.x Mbps. My 12″ PowerBook gets 14.x Mbps on the same tests. Interesting…
My next step is to get Vonage up and running over the FiOS connection. That will probably happen sometime next week. I’ll keep you posted on how it goes.