consumerist.com— A two-year investigation has concluded that most Verizon FIOS installations fail to meet national safety standards, and could cause fires or electrocutions
Aug 30, 2008View in Crawl 4
I'm needing it too. I'm stuck with Time Warner Cable here in NYC and I'm seeing FIOS commercials everyday, but it's still not available in my area. TWC is complete s**t, and I can't wait to ditch them.
Have many friends who have had FIOS installed without a hitch. The speed is amazing - hell, it is just nice to have some competition to the cable companies.
I believe they install the backup power to keep phone services up during a power outage. Normal phone lines would work during a power outage, all you would need is a home phone with a power source. With FiOS, that is not possible so they substituted it with backup battery.
I assume it has nothing to do with the fiber optic cable, and everything to do with the large universal power supply that comes with every installation. Mine is a honkin' big box bolted to the rafters in my basement, and it looks like it could possibly be grounded.
BRAIN FART!!!!!!!!!That's probably how it happened!!!At least it's minor, and improbable. Even then, it still should have been found, and corrected, in pre-deployment testing!Better to retrofit a fix than risk a wrongful death suit!
joshf52Aug 31, 2008
I'm needing it too. I'm stuck with Time Warner Cable here in NYC and I'm seeing FIOS commercials everyday, but it's still not available in my area. TWC is complete s**t, and I can't wait to ditch them.
manstein01Sep 1, 2008
Have many friends who have had FIOS installed without a hitch. The speed is amazing - hell, it is just nice to have some competition to the cable companies.
akifbayramSep 1, 2008
I believe they install the backup power to keep phone services up during a power outage. Normal phone lines would work during a power outage, all you would need is a home phone with a power source. With FiOS, that is not possible so they substituted it with backup battery.
obliviousfoolSep 1, 2008
I assume it has nothing to do with the fiber optic cable, and everything to do with the large universal power supply that comes with every installation. Mine is a honkin' big box bolted to the rafters in my basement, and it looks like it could possibly be grounded.
sx66gnsSep 1, 2008
Now that they have immunity (Thanks conservatives) they have nothing to worry about.
gkiltzSep 1, 2008
BRAIN FART!!!!!!!!!That's probably how it happened!!!At least it's minor, and improbable. Even then, it still should have been found, and corrected, in pre-deployment testing!Better to retrofit a fix than risk a wrongful death suit!
mhmdkhamisOct 30, 2008
OK, I understand how you can ground coaxial cable for cable connections, and copper twisted pair for DSL installations, but would someone explain how you ground optical fiber cable? I've seen the optical cable used by AT&T for their U-verse fiber connections and there's nothing in it that can conduct. I mean sure, if it took a direct lightning strike, I suppose the current could travel down the skin of the cable, but if you take a strike that close, even a traditionally grounded cable or twisted-pair line will likely pass the current into the house.<a class="user" href="http://xn--pgbk8der.xn----ymcae0df5a6fo.com/%D8%AA%D8%AD%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%84.%D8%A7%D9%81%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%85.%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%A9.%D8%AC%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%AF%D8%A9/">http://xn--pgbk8der.xn----ymcae0df5a6fo.com/%D8%AA ...</a><a class="user" href="http://xn--pgbk8der.xn----ymcae0df5a6fo.com/%D8%AA%D8%AD%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%84.%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%AC.%D9%85%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%A9.%D9%85%D9%86.%D9%85%D9%88%D9%82%D8%B9.softpedia/">http://xn--pgbk8der.xn----ymcae0df5a6fo.com/%D8%AA ...</a><a class="user" href="http://xn--pgbk8der.xn----ymcae0df5a6fo.com/%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%AC.%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84.%D9%88.%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%84/">http://xn--pgbk8der.xn----ymcae0df5a6fo.com/%D8%A8 ...</a><a class="user" href="http://xn--pgbk8der.xn----ymcae0df5a6fo.com/%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%AC.%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%AC%D8%B1.%D9%88.%D9%85%D8%AD%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%AB%D8%A9/">http://xn--pgbk8der.xn----ymcae0df5a6fo.com/%D8%A8 ...</a>
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