Hello Lisa and other interested parties:

You mention both DSL and satellite in your posting. I am confused that you
would be using both for an internet connection. Perhaps the DSL is for your
computer and satellite is for your TV?  Now you can have a internet
connection using a satellite but it wouldn't be connected to your phone.

  I would be surprised if Verizon would come out to run a fiber optic line
to
your house. . The vast majority of people wouldn't have this because the
cost would be too high. Fiber optic
cables are used for trunk lines and smaller lines are branched off from the
trunk to your house and computer. You may want to talk with a supervisor at
Verizon to make sure it is indeed a fiber optic line they will bring to your
house?

The type of connection whether it be dial up, DSL, cable, or satellite would
have no effect on your adaptive equipment whether it be hardware or
software. With the different connections you have, you would see a change in
download speed and monthly charges.

If Verizon can do it faster and cheaper than your current provider than go
for it.

Safe computing to you.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lisa McManus" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 10:35 PM
Subject: question about using fiberoptics for internet connection


:        Hi everyone,
:
: I would like to thank everyone for all of your helpfulness on my question
: concerning direct x.  I have not gotten to install it and so forth yet,
but
: I hope to do that this coming weekend.
:
: My question I would like to have help with right now is concerning
: fiberoptics.  Right now I use dsl from earthlink.  Verizon has tried to
: talk me into getting their fiberoptic service because it would be faster
: than dsl and also cheaper than earthlink.  I do not know anything about
: this topic.  We have a satellite dish and I am not real sure if that is
: connected into the phone line or not.  The person at Verizon that I talked
: to said that someone would come out to my house and connect something or
: other for the fiberoptics into the phone line.  I do not know if that
would
: be a problem or not.  Also I don't know if this connection would have any
: affect on my adaptive equipment at all since I have no prior experience
: with it.  If anyone has any experience or advice or anything they could
: share with me I would really appreciate it so that I could make a decision
: about getting the fiberoptic service or not.  Thanks a lot for your help.
:
: Lisa
:
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