I have been a Verizon Fios customer for a decade now. My home is hardwired with fiber and direct-to-tv coaxial connections.
I realize Verizon is trying to save money these days -- and that couldn't have been more apparent to me when I was put in charge of setting up Verizon Fios in my brother's new home.
The company shipped him Stream TV boxes. These boxes run off of an ONT main box, connected to a router that transmits the needed WiFi signal.
We had a Verizon installer come to the home to deal with an initial ONT box issue. He was an old-school installer and he was going on and on about how bad these Verizon Stream boxes were. I soon found out he was correct...
There is a great deal of work that has to go into setting up each of these boxes. Lots of firmware updates. Lots of signing in to this and that. Lots of waiting for a slow box to do everything it needs to do before you can start watching TV.
The problem I find is that every time I turn on the TV, I have to sit for up to 5 minutes and wait for the box to load. It goes through a series of setup/startup screens every time the box is powered on.
What happened to the days of being able to turn on your TV and have it instantly show live television? Why am I sitting here waiting for these boxes to boot up every time they are powered?
Am I missing something here?
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