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What's the question about? Yes they are offering it for $99 right now until 1/17/15.
Are people happier moving "up" from the FiOS Advanced Wi-Fi Router to the FiOS Quantum Gateway?
It's probably $99 because people are slow to adopt it?
@ike71 wrote: Are people happier moving "up" from the FiOS Advanced Wi-Fi Router to the FiOS Quantum Gateway?It's probably $99 because people are slow to adopt it?
A lot of people are happier moving up yes if they need or want the AC/dual band, but there are some who aren't who say they have issues with loosing connections or having issues with the quantum vms's/ipc's or the advanced users who say it lacks special features. I have no issues with it myself and am very happy with it as I can get full speeds on wifi.
I highly doubt it's $99 for that reason. Most likely they just want to push out as many as they can right now. It's better to push larger quantities at a lower price then little at a higher price.
A lot of people still have no idea the new router is even available.
About a month ago I replaced my Actiontec Rev. I router with the new Quantum router, not a moments problem with it. Only tiny little nit with it is that it doesn't have any "flashing lights" on the front panel so I can't see the activity on my network at a glance
Seriously, I am completely satisfied with the Quantum router, meets my needs, at least so far.
__________________________________JustinFiOS TV: Extreme HD, Internet: 50/50, Digital VoiceVMS Enhanced Service: 1 server, 2 clientsKeller, TX 76248 (VHO 1)
@mfloydc wrote:Not happy about paying 99.99 for a router that should be provided free, as has been until recently. Verizon=GREED.
Actually only pre Rev. i models were provided to customers to "borrow". Nothing was ever "free". The Rev. i was also being sold for $99 and there was no way around that until recently with the release of the new Gateway where they do offer free upgrades to the rev. i in most cases. How is it greed when they have to pay for each router (more then what they are charging customers) themselves? They have to make money back somehow...unless you'd rather pay higher prices for fios in general. If you ran a business and gave things away for free to millions of customers that you spent money on you'd be out of business in no time.
Also, you don't have to buy it. You can rent it currently for $6.99 a month or get your own 3rd party router. The Rev. i is all that is required for quantum tv. The gateway isn't required for anything.
@SinCara wrote: @mfloydc wrote:Not happy about paying 99.99 for a router that should be provided free, as has been until recently. Verizon=GREED.Actually only pre Rev. i models were provided to customers to "borrow". Nothing was ever "free". The Rev. i was also being sold for $99 and there was no way around that until recently with the release of the new Gateway where they do offer free upgrades to the rev. i in most cases. How is it greed when they have to pay for each router (more then what they are charging customers) themselves? They have to make money back somehow...unless you'd rather pay higher prices for fios in general. If you ran a business and gave things away for free to millions of customers that you spent money on you'd be out of business in no time.Also, you don't have to buy it. You can rent it currently for $6.99 a month or get your own 3rd party router. The Rev. i is all that is required for quantum tv. The gateway isn't required for anything.
I have a rev I
I not paying rental, neither did I buy it.
In reality I think the ancient Westell 910EM it replaced was a better router.
@viafax999 wrote:
I have a rev I I not paying rental, neither did I buy it. In reality I think the ancient Westell 910EM it replaced was a better router.
The Westell Gateways for FiOS certainly held up for a long time, I can agree with that. Westell products in general, were solid. I have a Westell C90-6100 DSL modem that is around 10 years old, and it's still working well. Best modem I've ever used out of the collection of modems I have.
The Westells were given out around the time Verizon was issuing ActionTec MI424WR Rev. D and older units still. Many of us can remember the NAT table problems that stemmed from running Steam or Torrents on the Rev. D before the firmware was fixed up a bit.
@viafax999 wrote: @SinCara wrote: @mfloydc wrote:Not happy about paying 99.99 for a router that should be provided free, as has been until recently. Verizon=GREED.Actually only pre Rev. i models were provided to customers to "borrow". Nothing was ever "free". The Rev. i was also being sold for $99 and there was no way around that until recently with the release of the new Gateway where they do offer free upgrades to the rev. i in most cases. How is it greed when they have to pay for each router (more then what they are charging customers) themselves? They have to make money back somehow...unless you'd rather pay higher prices for fios in general. If you ran a business and gave things away for free to millions of customers that you spent money on you'd be out of business in no time.Also, you don't have to buy it. You can rent it currently for $6.99 a month or get your own 3rd party router. The Rev. i is all that is required for quantum tv. The gateway isn't required for anything.I have a rev II not paying rental, neither did I buy it.In reality I think the ancient Westell 910EM it replaced was a better router.
Always were some ways to get them free. And some free upgrades even now, e.g. if you go to higher speeds or get Quantum TV. If a installer had nothing else he would give you whatever he had during and install or repair. Yes some have even reported getting free G1100.
