ISPs: Which one is less satan-y, and my own router?

"The ground crew put the drop in with a plow and plowed through sprinkler pipes in both yards. I didn't discover it til the following year after the ground hardened up. Then I discovered the drop was only 6" deep in the back yard when I severed the drop with a shovel while making improvements. Since the drop was not buried 18" they bought that fix."

It's funny you mention that. Of the 500 or so drops I ran, of which probably 2/3 people were home at the time, 1 single person had a diagram of the sprinkler system for us. Which blew my mind that people didn't know or didn't want to know where there sprinklers were at all.

Absolutely no one knew where their invisible dog fences were until they got cut.

We only had a backhoe for a day. Went to the shop where my boss father in law sold Kubota tractors. He bought a tractor and trailer and I said "rick you need a different trailer. Those ramps are too short and too steep" to which I was told I had no idea what I was talking about. I only drove E36 M3 like that for 6 years doing construction, he's a salesman with no experience, of course he knew better than me.

The last house that day, idiot boss parked on a hill, so that he had to drive the machine up the ramps onto the trailer when we were done, and rolled it. Not 14 hours after he bought it, he berkeleying rolled it. That was my last day, because instead of helping him I looked him square in the eye and said "I berkeleying told you you'd roll it with that trailer"

For the record, I was hired to install burglar alarms, but because he couldn't keep slaves to dig($8/hour is slave wages for physical labor as far as I'm concerned), I spent most of my time digging fios.

I'm late to the party here, but I'd like to chime in that on your fiber system, you're still sharing bandwidth with your neighbors. FiOS is a Gigabit Passive Optical Network (GPON), and the down/up links are actually shared among a group of subscribers (your neighbors).

That being said, the bandwidth that you are sharing is HUGE compared to cable.

Source: I used to design and install GPON systems for telcos.

I see no reason to dig up the yard. Its 100' from the street to the house and there is already cable and electric overhead running down the side of the property. The Fios I had put in in Pittsburgh just followed the phone line overhead.

This is all good info, thank you.