Anyone have experience with Verizon FIOS?

[richorlin]

FIOS is finally available in my neighborhood. I was going to sign up for the 15mb service but upon checking the system requirements, I find that wireless connections for Macintosh are not supported. I know there's usually a difference between "not supported" and "it works but we won't support it". Anyone out there using FIOS wirelessly on their Mac? If I can't connect my iBook wirelessly, it isn't worth it at any price.

[Lux Interior]

If you can set up a wireless network, it will work with a Mac. There's no such thing as a "Windows only" 802.11 signal.

[jimbrady]

I have FiOS and a wireless Mac-top.

[mattkime]

FiOS comes into your house as fiber and I believe is converted to ethernet. Whether its wireless or not has to do with if they put a wireless modem on the ethernet.

Its really the same as dsl or cable internet.

[mikebw]

I've got the 15Mb hookup. Right now they are installing it with the wireless router for free, whereas when they did my install all I got was the 4-port wired router.

No matter, I just plugged in my Airlink 802.11g router(with 4-port switch) and set it to PPPoE, works great.

Doesn't work with macs in this case means that they just don't want to support it.

So go for it, it's wicked fast, but you will only notice a difference when downloading large files, there really is no speed increase in loading basic webpages since this has more to do with server speeds, latency times, and the speed of your own computer to render the pages. It's great though, I can get over 1MBps (yes one MegaByte per Second) when downloading from enough different servers.

Save them the bother and just setup your mac beforehand, all you need is to set your Network prefs to DHCP and it will auto-configure. You DONT need to set your mac to PPPoE, contrary to what the techs tried to do with mine.

[Lux Interior]

mikebw Wrote:
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> Save them the bother and just setup your mac
> beforehand, all you need is to set your Network
> prefs to DHCP and it will auto-configure. You
> DONT need to set your mac to PPPoE, contrary to
> what the techs tried to do with mine.

Right. The router or modem or wahtever FIOS uses will be set to PPPoE, not the Mac or PC.

I had my G4 set to PPPoE before I added a wireless router. Now the router makes the connection via PPPoE and the computers get their local IP through the router's DCHP server.

[mikebw]

Sentences like that can really make you appreciate the job acronyms do for us.

I mean type it all out and compare:

FiOS - Fiber Optic Service
Mac - Macintosh
PC - Personal Computer
G4 - Fourth generation Power Macintosh
PPPoE - Point to Point Protocol over Ethernet
IP - Internet Protocol
DHCP - Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
LOL - laugh out loud...