FIOS vs cable for motorspots (F1/Indycar) watching?

"JEM" (jem) 10/06/2014 at 12:09 • Filed to: None

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Figured I'd throw this out as a question to Oppo....

As cable/internet is like $150 a month now, and going up all the time, I've been researching other options.

Wondering about the whole Verizon FIOS thing, and of course, their website doesn't have shit for exact channel info.

Anyone out there have FIOS and watch motor racing? Do you gets FS2, NBCSN, stuff like that? I currently get both with my cable provider.

EDIT: Forgot to mention I have Charter as a cable provider. City I live in is locked into a one provider contract so I have no Comcast or whatever option.

EDIT #2: This is a single family dwelling.

GhostZ > JEM 10/06/2014 at 12:11

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EDIT post: Oh, charter. That's fucking terrible. My sympathy goes out to you.

GhostZ > JEM 10/06/2014 at 12:21

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Also, are there Fiber Optic lines where you are? FiOS is just fiber optic internet and TV, if there are no fiber optic lines running to your house, you're out of luck anyway. Even if your zip code is covered, your individual building or house may not be.

Also, be prepared for Verizon to shove terrible equipment down your throat that you will have to either service or replace yourself.

mcseanerson > GhostZ 10/06/2014 at 12:30

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Depends on what type of location they're in. If you're in an apartment and they even mention VDSL or MDU then run like hell. The cable boxes are made by motorola and are pretty much the same garbage everyone uses. If you have a SFU ONT it's not really that complicated and easy enough for the little bit of work a customer would be expected to do.

mcseanerson > JEM 10/06/2014 at 12:30

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Are you in a multi dwelling unit like a condo or apartment complex or do you have a house?

mcseanerson > JEM 10/06/2014 at 12:33

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http://www.verizon.com/cs/groups/publ… This is the most common package. If you go to their site and navigate to the tv section you should be able to see what channels are included in plans when you click on them.

JEM > GhostZ 10/06/2014 at 12:34

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Haha, thanks. Yeah, the suck for cable, the rates go up endlessly. The internet connection is WAY slower than it should be too.

JEM > mcseanerson 10/06/2014 at 12:34

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Single family house.

mcseanerson > JEM 10/06/2014 at 12:40

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Ok, if Fios is available to your residence you should be good. The offer a ton of channels and I'm pretty certain they offer all the ones you want.

jariten1781 > JEM 10/06/2014 at 12:41

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FiOS has been great for me. Single family home with fiber to the house (you need this).

Yeah, we get NBCSN and FS2. It depends on what region you're in though, they could differ. Here you have to get the Extreme (awesome name.......) package if you want FS2, it's not on the Select package.

There was a big kerfuffle about the SEC network but it got worked out before the second week of the CFB season and the first week I was able to stream it via ESPNGO.

Corey > JEM 10/06/2014 at 13:21

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You could just download the races via torrent... Most of the F1 stuff won't be in a reasonable time zone to watch it anyway. Not to mention, you can always rewind a recording and watch as many times as you wish.

JEM > Corey 10/06/2014 at 13:43

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I already record everything and watch it tape-delayed at least with my DVR.

I don't use any torrent stuff, and I have a tube TV so a more high tech solution really doesn't work for me very well.

mcseanerson > jariten1781 10/06/2014 at 13:59

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All Fios is fiber to the premises but the single family home is severely important. MDU ONT is worse than a cable modem.

jariten1781 > mcseanerson 10/06/2014 at 15:03

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I think you're forgetting about gated communities. From talking to one of my friends he ended up with VDSL even though he's in a single family home. They ran the fiber to some sort of communal connection box at the front of his community (mid-income gated) then piggybacked the signal on the copper phone lines to all the houses. Probably some community by-laws or something prevented burying new cable.

Last talked to him about it a couple years ago so maybe it's changed?

mcseanerson > jariten1781 10/06/2014 at 15:04

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That would be on the basis of a community but that is typically pretty rare. Usually something to do with the HOA, because everything about HOAs is terrible.

jariten1781 > mcseanerson 10/06/2014 at 15:32

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Hating on HOAs is fine and dandy until this guy moves in, installs a 2 story tall pink flamingo, and stops caring for his yard/house. Lowered all property values on the street 20-30k. I, luckily, lived a couple blocks away, but understand why people need them.

mcseanerson > jariten1781 10/06/2014 at 15:37

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I care too much about freedom to give a damn about property values. Dude wants a Pink Flamingo let him have a Pink Flamingo.

jariten1781 > mcseanerson 10/06/2014 at 15:46

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Haha, I get that too and tend to agree. However, that pink flamingo only cost him a couple hundred bucks but cost his neighbors a sum of hundreds of thousands of dollars. While I'd never live in one, I totally understand why they exist and why people choose to live in places that have them.

I also wonder where someone goes to buy a two story tall flamingo. I've never seen one at Lowes.

mcseanerson > jariten1781 10/06/2014 at 15:50

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That's true. I imagine it takes a certain type of person to choose to live in an HOA.