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Re: nothing to do with: Re: [PLUG] Verizon FIOS & open wireless
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- From: zuzu <sean.zuzu@gmail.com>
- To: "Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List" <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
- Subject: Re: nothing to do with: Re: [PLUG] Verizon FIOS & open wireless
- Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 21:59:02 -0400
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On 10/5/07, zuzu <sean.zuzu@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/5/07, Brent Saner <brent.saner@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 3. does speakeasy provide hardware? is there any proprietary necessary
> > stuff? ( i.e. verizon fi-os "HIGHLY DISCOURAGES" you to use your own router.
> > this is because the ones they provide have patched firmware that lets them
> > jack into your router. my GUESS is to upgrade the firmware when it needs it,
> > but who the hell KNOWS what they're really doing)
>
>
> I got FiOS early on, about two years ago now, I think; long before
> they offered television service.
>
> my first installer "tech guy" was cool about letting me use my own
> router (DD-WRT) rather than the crap D-Link one; it connects with
> PPPoE just like their ADSL service did. he even was the first person
> to tell me about the miranda web100 bandwidth testing site (
> http://miranda.ctd.anl.gov:7123/ ) to prove I was really getting 15/2
> Mbps (down/up).
addendum: I think this is "popularly" known, but Verizon does block
incoming Port 80.
> when I added the TV service, the new installer "tech guy" gave me the
> Actiontec router, and it's still in the same unopened box as when he
> handed it to me. I'm not interested in DRM'd (i.e. encrypted) content
> (which I don't pay for) nor "on demand" service, and I can get EPG
> data from third parties. (plus the aforementioned issue of a possible
> "rootkit" router on my LAN; talk about a "backdoor" from the earlier
> "open wireless" thread.)
>
> I would agree that the way Verizon now rolls out MoCA rather than
> standard CAT-5e (or ideally CAT-6) is quite proprietary (I haven't
> seen any publicly sold MoCA equipment, have you?) and thus rather
> malicious towards naive customers, however. I'd love for a hacker
> community to reverse-engineer exactly what's going on with the FiOS
> implementation of MoCA, such as sending EDTV content to other rented
> receiver boxes in the house, or precisely how variant their IPTV
> service is.
>
> anyone out there renting the Verizon HD DVR have info on who
> manufactures the box (Scientific Atlanta?) and whether it's possible
> to read video off the Firewire port using the DVHS protocol?
>
> (I'm sure this thread could easily overlap with ones on the AVSforum website.)
>
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