DutchHenryBrown
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Anybody use Verizon high speed internet in there home they call it HomeFusion Broadband I'm thinking of switching over to them?? Anybody Good, Bad, Ugly! 
Thinking of changing my ISP? To Verizon?
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Don87
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The only thing I can tell you about Verizon, is that after my local ISP installed the 'fiber optic' in my area, Verizon came in and rents the access off my ISP and ups the price to their subscribers.
I have fiber optic cable directly to my computer, phone and TV.
I have fiber optic cable directly to my computer, phone and TV.
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Before going with one of the "big boys" I would check to see if a smaller local company can offer the same service. Personally, I have better success with the smaller companies than with large corporations. Small companies tend to take care of their customer whereas I find that large corporations tend to take care of the stockholder.
What are your needs? Home business, email, web surfing? I googled home fusion broad band which took me to the Verizon site. This appears to be 4G LTE wireless based. Appears to be a wireless router that moves data via cellular connection. That will require that all your computers be wireless. If you have an old desktop you may have to add wireless to it to connect. 4G is fast, however the newer satellite systems are just about as fast and may be less expensive. Depends on "the plan".
What do you have now and why would it be beneficial to switch?
What are your needs? Home business, email, web surfing? I googled home fusion broad band which took me to the Verizon site. This appears to be 4G LTE wireless based. Appears to be a wireless router that moves data via cellular connection. That will require that all your computers be wireless. If you have an old desktop you may have to add wireless to it to connect. 4G is fast, however the newer satellite systems are just about as fast and may be less expensive. Depends on "the plan".
What do you have now and why would it be beneficial to switch?
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I have Verizon DSL and we have very few problems, sometimes we will loose connection for what ever reason and that is the worse problem because talking to someone in India as they check your lines they have you do this round of meaningless tasks that they read off of some paper at this point I don't even do many of them I just tell them that I did. But that is the worse problem we have and it only happens once maybe twice a year, but always when you need it go figure. We even switched over at work from a cable provider to Verizon we have 8 or so PC's on line at a time most of the time without a problem. Our connection at home (and work) is all wired all we had to do at work was to replace the router and connect to existing, at home I wired to several different locations with cat 5 just like work (we are an electrical contractor) and them installed a wireless router after the DSL router which I used as a patch panel also. All and all we are very satisfied with the DSL except for the phone calls if we need service. Now if you want to run streaming video off of the net the DSL really isn't fast enough IMHO unless you completely down load first because it lags, but I have never tried to use cable to do the same thing so I don't know how that operates either. Well I hope this is helpful I do know that Verizon is way less expensive than cable is.
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DutchHenryBrown
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Thank you all for the feed back. I'm using an outfit thru my Electric service company called TransWorld Network. I usually just use the computer for emails and web surfing type stuff, no movies or games. I also have my phone service with TWN so when the computer does go down I have no phone service either. I was just shopping around and Verizon internet and phone service is a little cheaper than the current company.
I have Verizon DSL. It is a reliable connection. I want to change to something else so I can get rid of the home phone line.
I just looked at the Verizon home fusion broadband. It works off a 4GLTE connection. I wonder how good their router is?
I just looked at the Verizon home fusion broadband. It works off a 4GLTE connection. I wonder how good their router is?
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DutchHenryBrown
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I have a friend who is using the 4GLTE and really likes it that is what kind of got me looking around. Not sure if they have had any problems with the router or not. If I go with Verizon I am dropping my land line also and going to switch my home phone number over to my Verizon cell phone. That way I will not have to notify companies that use my home phone number to ID me when I call them. The plan I looked at was for 10GB monthly allowance at $60.
I think you will be happy with it. The 4G on my phone is really fast. My old neighbor works for Verizon. He said for them to get the 4G they ran fiber optic lines to the cell towers. $60 is more than my DSL and phone bill combined.
cletus99
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If you have a smart phone with Verizon it should have hot spot capabilities. That's what I use. You'd be wasting money if so because it would basically be the same thing. You'd still be running off their 4G either way. You get free hot spot now anyway. I had looked at getting Home Fusion, but found it cheaper to just use my phone. I turn on hot spot and then have wifi access for anything I want. If I had any other choice though besides satellite, which I tried the new Exede and it sucks, I would. I don't have DSL or Cable where I live. Only thing I don't like about what I have is a data limit. I miss having Netflix and other online movie access.