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By: Chip Dizard

Chip Dizard — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 05:39:42 +0000

Just got the door hanger today about FIOS and I found your blog. I will be writing my review on my blog as well. I am tired of Comcast and I am ditching DirecTv as soon as these lines are out. Thanks for the posts!

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 10:58:35 +0000

It all depends on the torrent really. If there are thousands of people seeding and downloading then yeah, it’s possible. Like I said, just set the connection limit of the torrents fairly low. Around 200 or 300 seems to work fine. I can still max out the downloads with it set that way.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 03:00:46 +0000

Thanks, so then it shouldn’t be a problem since I usually only have one torrent going at a time then?

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:14:54 +0000

Hey Chris, the same problems still apply to a wired connection. The issue doesn’t have anything to do with the wireless.

You can still download torrents, just set the max connections to a reasonable amount and it won’t choke up the router quite as fast.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:36:34 +0000

Steve, thanks for all the info! I’m getting my FiOs installed on Sunday, and have a few questions. I am a bit leery about what you mentioned for torrents. Does that happen because of the wirelessness of the router? My main computer does not have a wireless card so it is hardwired to my current router. Will that stay the same, and not effect torrents?

Thanks for all the advice you have posted. I am looking forward to the 60-70 more HD channels I currently have with Comcast.

By: Kevin N.

Kevin N. — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:47:00 +0000

I find that cartoons look alot better on Fios, there is no scaling on the picture. We pull our SD channels out to full screen. I am on my third router, I don’t blame them entirely for that problem, I think they need to come up with a better provider for hardware.

By: Kenny Z

Kenny Z — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:01:59 +0000

My only issue with FIOS is the Percent Used on the Home Media DVR. If you look at the amount of time recorded and the amount available it is never right. I have seen other postings on some things to try and nothing seems to work. This has burned me a few times with things getting deleted because the system thinks it doesn’t have enough room. Hopefully one day it will get fixed.

By: JoeD

JoeD — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:56:19 +0000

Thanks very much. I sure appreciate hearing that from someone who knows what he’s talking about. You’ve got a great site here and I’ll be checking it often. Keep up the great work!

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:42:36 +0000

The latest firmware update made the SD picture quality a little better from what I understand by sharpening it some. The newer boxes (7xxx series) that you will most likely get don’t seem to have those problems anyways.

You can also try a few different settings to decide which is the best on your television. You can have SD override turned off and the box will do all of the scaling, or you can turn it on and let your tv do the scaling by setting it to show the SD channels in 480p or 480i.

The SD quality is no worse than with Comcast. I personally think it is better, but I very rarely watch SD channels. We have about 130 HD channels now so I really don’t have much reason to watch SD often.