Considering the amount of cash she dropped on this room, I doubt she is hurting for money, and if she ever went to sell, I can easily see her paying to have the room turned into a std home theater like room. Besides, by the looks of it from the photos, all one would have to do is tear down the cave like decorations, and repaint the room...
That an individual would have the ability to actually hit the pilot in the face with a laser (most likely a generic laser pointer) from 500 feet while the target was moving.. I mean what are the odds. That said, people who are stupid enough to even contemplate such an act do deserve what they get, assuming the description of the incident is valid, but I still have some doubts.
You do realize that cloth covered old electrical wiring, is likely to have asbestos in it.
And also, if you really want to get into cost savings, I just redid my kitchen, yes my wife (then fiance) did it ourselves with the help of a few friends, and it only cost us beer as payment for their assistance.
That is total overhaul, plumbing, all new copper supply, and pvc drain lines, all new electrical wiring (all wiring which was cloth covered asbestos AL wiring) in the kitchen was ripped out, new outlets, new recessed lighting. All new appliances, and wiring to go with it. Cabinets, tile floor, the works. The only thing I had done professionally was the 70+ square feet of granite counter top we had installed.
Total cost of materials, $25k Total cost had we had someone do it, $60k
Thats a significant savings, and all relatively easy to do. Took us about 3 weeks from gutting the old to being ready for the counter tops.
The major thing you have to understand about contractor work (construction/remodeling) is that 60 to 80% of the cost is labor, not materials, if you can do it yourself, you can save a crap ton of money. We recently did hardwood floors in the dining room, living room, and upstairs hallway, about $5k for the wood, and 2 weekends to get it done. That would have cost us $15k had we had someone do it for us.
It has nothing to do with selling a printer at a loss to make it up by selling the ink. It has to do with sustainability, if they sold ink dirt cheap, figure $5 a cartridge, and the printers at a 30% profit, well that one time sale on the printer netted them a profit, that person will most likely keep that good quality printer for a long time, and although buying ink regularly, the profit margin is so small that the company makes real profit to cover the overhead of operations.
Now, sell the printer at a loss, and the ink at a massive profit margin, and you have a guarantee of sustained income.
From a business standpoint, that makes perfect sense, from a consumer standpoint, it sucks ass.
I never said I agree with the process, but I do understand the process. Some sacrifices have to be made to keep costs down. Its not the best method, but it does work. People who are very budget conscious, can shop around, people that don't care and have the funds, let them spend the $90 for a $5 HDMI cable, those people, are technically the ones subsidizing the rest of us who shop around and only buy core shit from big box stores and get the accessories elsewhere.
I would not call all HP printers shitty. Yes they have shitty ones, so does Epson, Canon, in fact every brand has a bunch of low end shitty printers. They also all have some very nice lower end printers as well (over $100 less then $300). While I do agree with you with regards to getting generic ink to refill cartridges (assuming the cartridge does not have tamper sensors that render them useless when you do refill them), some of the "knockoff" no name brand imported from china replacement cartridges, are often made by the same company that makes the official ones, and sells them grey or black market to people who end up selling them at smaller shops and computer shows. Those will work just fine, but often the case is figuring out which ones are the ones you want to purchase.
Exactly what I did, I picked up a $200 B&W HP laser printer (we don't print photo's) that works great.
The dye sub printers, although great for photographs, have their ink issues as well. Many of the current ones (atleast those designed for photo printing) have ink and paper cartridges that come together. When you run out of paper, you have to purchase a new cartridge, regardless of whether or not you used all the ink in them. Atleast the cheaper ones I have been looking into do, and the cost, still much much higher then taking your digital images to a photo processing store to get prints made.
Cheap ink cartridges and ink refills have been around since the 80's and 90's, back in the days before they started chipping the cartridges. The only thing that has changed since then, is the technology that the vendors (all of them are guilty of this), that allows the vendor to lock out any "non vendor approved" ink cartridges, and tamper sensors to determine if a cartridge was refilled. Yes it sucks, and yes, it should be illegal, but currently, its not.
Hell, I remember back in the late 80's early 90's.. re-inking the ribbon cartridges on my schools old 9 pin dot matrix printer.. that thing rocked a solid page a min if I was lucky:)
While I am no fan of the big box retailers in general, I do recognize the fact that they do have overhead costs. I worked at Compusa in the early 2k's just after the dot.bomb era (I was a victim), and while yes, cables and accessories are rediculously priced (the rounded IDE cables back then being sold for $29 actually cost around $4, which is what I paid while working there), the profit margin on laptops and PC's was ridiculously small, we are talking 1 to 3%. There has to be a balance for stores to remain viable, if they sold everyone at 2 to 5% profit, the store would be out of business in no time. This goes for any store, regardless of industry or size. So if you want cheap laptops and TV's, then yes, they have to markup something else, otherwise expect much higher prices on the primary items you purchase.
That being said, personally, yes I bought my TV from Best Buy, was a good deal, and on sale, no I did not buy anything else from them relating to my TV as I knew I could get those things elsewhere, thats just me trying to get the best deal for myself, but I cannot get pissed off at a entity trying to remain viable and in business.
You hit the nail on the head there with the shelf shock statement. I had been going into local electronics stores whenever I happened by them, for about six months, asking if they had wii's in stock, of course the answer had been a solid no for 6 months, till the day someone said yes.. and I was confused for a min about what to do. Naturally I bought the wii.
The problem I came across, is that even though I played it for the first week or 2 (this was about 6 months ago too), after that it lost its playing appeal when I was home alone and with the wife (who hates it because the controller is not exact enough and she cannot play with it without getting pissed off). These days, I only play it in party conditions and when we have friends over for dinner. Its a great social game console, but beyond that I find it no fun to play. Unlike my old xbox (non 360), which I can sit and play alone all the time.
You do realise that it was the Australian media that posted this.. not the US Media... I mean seriously.. this is not even a case of reading the fucking article.. its a case of mousing over the link to the fucking article and seeing its a.au domain... Don't be such a lazy ass.
Slow news day..... This is atleast 3 days old now.
This is a plain PR release to attempt to on up Verizons PR release. There is no different between the ATT today and the ATT prior to the PR release. They have always had an open network, the ATT platform is another story, its pretty closed (ATT platform == ATT customized firmwares and such), and they love to exclude wireless if they can, and generally refuse to unlock the phones they sell, unless you beg.
I imagine if the fabric was woven into the entire structure of the building, between all floors, in all the walls etc, I suspect the dmg could have been greatly reduced by a bomb of that size. Maybe it could even act as insulation, that would help reduce building costs by using 1 substance instead of multiple substances between walls and such.
The thing about knowing what is crossing your AP, is unless your running an IDS/IPS or some other hardware based (ie on the AP), you will never know. Most AP's these days have only very basic logging, nothing special.
Now I will admit, I did not read this particular article, although I did read a few elsewhere, and no where in the bill does it state that joe consumer has to run monitoring hardware/software on his network equipment.... and maybe I should not be giving them any ideas...
On the bright side.. being a network security eng.. this bill provides me more business oppertunities:)
Side note, it appears Verizon has been locking down all of the AP's they provide (atleast with FIOS) with basic WEP. The downside side, its using WEP, which is next to useless. Another down side is that for most people, things like WPA and such are too complicated to setup, and then still get their portable devices to connect.
Well, with regards to mobile users, there is the option of running a Funambol server, which would allow you to sync data (calender, contacts, and for some mobile variants email, which it really just pops/imaps and sends to your phone) to and from mobile devices (supports symbian, wm, hell there is even a iphone app for jailbroken iphones)
Not a complete solution for the OP or your, but a portion that you could integrate into an existing solution that requires mobility.
ps, I do not work for them.. nor do I do any development, short of trying to get it to work on FBSD.
I don't know where you live.. but my mortgage is more then 4 times that amount, and for that matter, my car payment is about $200 more too.. and I drive a freaking Toyota..
As for rigs, I spent a crapton.. okay maybe only $750 on my mobo, gpu and psu about 2 years ago, and that particular rig is still doing okay, granted only getting about 40 fps on UT3, but it works for me, at thats at 1600 x 1200 at med to med high settings. I do plan on finding another 7800 GT (I know its old) so I can run in SLI, that should hold me over for another year heh..
I My new laptop absolutely blows my desktop out of the water, with its little 8800 GS mobile chipset
Although I do agree with the photo ID solution.. I completely disagree with the limiting of the number of returns. I buy a crapton of stuff from homedepot (doing alot of renovation on the house). In the last 2 weekends alone, I have made 3 trips to the store to return unused (but 1 of the items had been opened, just not used) items. They take it back no questions asked, not even a restocking fee was charged, on the open items.
Although I am not the biggest fan of Home Depot, I prefer it over Lowes, who will place items back on the shelves, knowing they are broken (I purchased a router, of the wood working variety from them, returned it 3 times for a replacement before getting my money back and going elsewhere, twice the tool was broken, once it was missing items, all sealed boxes too, and not a no name brand either). HD will place unopened unsealed items back on the shelf, but opened items get sold as open box, or returned to manufacturer, and they never hassle you over returns (which sometimes gets abused of course, but apparently their CS is better then Best Buys)
Actually, they are no longer using cat5 off the ONT, they won't do it period. What they used to do when using cat5, is provide a Dlink router and a seperate NID (I forgot what this stands for). The NID is what provided guide data, and video on demand for the TV side, while the dlink provided the net access. They are no longer providing the NID, as the actiontec router includes this functionality within the router itself.
Currently, since I have tivo's on all my TV's, I could care less about the guide data provided by fios, and since its tivo, there is no VOD. So I currently have the actiontec configured as a bridge feeding to my gateway (running obsd) which then splits off to the wired segments, and a wireless segment (which is configured only to permit ipsec traffic and tivo to tivo traffic)
I know there are other MoCA devices out there, but none for commercial retail yet, only the actiontec. Hopefully, as with cable when it first came out, manufacturers will start selling after market MoCA devices.
Oddly enough, verizon does not (or atleast did not) do this. When I signed up for FIOS, it was initially only the internet and phone, no TV service (I was happy with DTV till I bought an HDTV.. and realized the cost of converting everything I had to DTV's HD capable equipment was higher then just switching to FIOS TV.. until I went out and bought an S3 tivo heh..). The price advertised was the price I paid, in fact I get a $5 discount for each additional service I subscribe to, its not much but it helps. With all 3, its about $15 a month discount, but these discounts are not reflected in their advertising.
Currently I have 15 down 5 up, FIOS TV with all the movie channels except for HBO/Cinemax, and a phone line (only really needed this for the alarm, there is no actual phone connected to it), with 2 tivos, 1 SA series 2, and 1 Series 3 with 2 cable cards, total monthly cost for me is about $130
It's hard for verizon to oversell their backbone connectivity, since technically they are the backbone... Originally UUNET used to control about 60 to 80% of the worlds backbone (I used to work at UUNET), then it became UUNET/Worldcom, then MCI/Worldcom, then MCI, then Verizon bought the whole damn thing.. so technically, Verizon is the backbone.
To be honest, I have not had my fios drop out on my in the year I have had it, and also not had any noticeable degradation of service or dip in speeds. For a company I despise only slightly less then comcast and ATT (those 3 companies are on my 'must be hit by meteor" list)...
It depends on your type of account. Obviously from a physical line standpoint, there is no redundancy, your line gets cut, your done (as will every other customer on that segment).
They have business accounts (which are actually reasonably priced), which provide some guarantees, but nothing like you would get on a DS3 or such. On the straight consumer line, its best effort, but if it goes out, your SOL till they get around to fixing it. No SLA's in place or anything like that.
This has already been beaten to death. They do not have a policy of removing the copper, they just disconnect it from the terminal at your house. The problem has been a disconnect between the installers and verizon's policy, and many of them have just been cutting the lines in your back yard only, usually flush with the ground (it is not disconnected at the CO)
I currently have FIOS, and although they have raised the price a few times since I started with it, it does not effect existing customers, only new customers signing up (atleast not till your contract expires).
As for some other statements about the contract, you do not have to sign up for a contract to get FIOS (or DSL in the DC Metro area), however if you don't go with a contract, you have to purchase you own equipment, and the rates may be slightly higher. The problem with FIOS, is there is no after market hardware, you have to use the piece of shit Actiontec, which although is a nice piece of hardware itself, the verizon butchered firmware sucks ass, and causes many issues (network related not business related) with VPN clients (most notably cisco's), and xbox network adapters (heavy packet loss, lots of latency, consistent network drops).
ps, I am no fan of verizon, on my list of companies that should die a horrible and painful death, (note I do not advocate violence against the people that work there, they have to make livings as well), the list, in order, Comcast, ATT, Verizon.. there are many more.. but those are the ones I hate the most, mostly due to their billing practices, and shitty support and CS
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Considering the amount of cash she dropped on this room, I doubt she is hurting for money, and if she ever went to sell, I can easily see her paying to have the room turned into a std home theater like room. Besides, by the looks of it from the photos, all one would have to do is tear down the cave like decorations, and repaint the room...
That an individual would have the ability to actually hit the pilot in the face with a laser (most likely a generic laser pointer) from 500 feet while the target was moving.. I mean what are the odds. That said, people who are stupid enough to even contemplate such an act do deserve what they get, assuming the description of the incident is valid, but I still have some doubts.
You do realize that cloth covered old electrical wiring, is likely to have asbestos in it.
And also, if you really want to get into cost savings, I just redid my kitchen, yes my wife (then fiance) did it ourselves with the help of a few friends, and it only cost us beer as payment for their assistance.
That is total overhaul, plumbing, all new copper supply, and pvc drain lines, all new electrical wiring (all wiring which was cloth covered asbestos AL wiring) in the kitchen was ripped out, new outlets, new recessed lighting. All new appliances, and wiring to go with it. Cabinets, tile floor, the works. The only thing I had done professionally was the 70+ square feet of granite counter top we had installed.
Total cost of materials, $25k
Total cost had we had someone do it, $60k
Thats a significant savings, and all relatively easy to do. Took us about 3 weeks from gutting the old to being ready for the counter tops.
The major thing you have to understand about contractor work (construction/remodeling) is that 60 to 80% of the cost is labor, not materials, if you can do it yourself, you can save a crap ton of money. We recently did hardwood floors in the dining room, living room, and upstairs hallway, about $5k for the wood, and 2 weekends to get it done. That would have cost us $15k had we had someone do it for us.
It has nothing to do with selling a printer at a loss to make it up by selling the ink. It has to do with sustainability, if they sold ink dirt cheap, figure $5 a cartridge, and the printers at a 30% profit, well that one time sale on the printer netted them a profit, that person will most likely keep that good quality printer for a long time, and although buying ink regularly, the profit margin is so small that the company makes real profit to cover the overhead of operations.
Now, sell the printer at a loss, and the ink at a massive profit margin, and you have a guarantee of sustained income.
From a business standpoint, that makes perfect sense, from a consumer standpoint, it sucks ass.
I never said I agree with the process, but I do understand the process. Some sacrifices have to be made to keep costs down. Its not the best method, but it does work. People who are very budget conscious, can shop around, people that don't care and have the funds, let them spend the $90 for a $5 HDMI cable, those people, are technically the ones subsidizing the rest of us who shop around and only buy core shit from big box stores and get the accessories elsewhere.
I would not call all HP printers shitty. Yes they have shitty ones, so does Epson, Canon, in fact every brand has a bunch of low end shitty printers. They also all have some very nice lower end printers as well (over $100 less then $300). While I do agree with you with regards to getting generic ink to refill cartridges (assuming the cartridge does not have tamper sensors that render them useless when you do refill them), some of the "knockoff" no name brand imported from china replacement cartridges, are often made by the same company that makes the official ones, and sells them grey or black market to people who end up selling them at smaller shops and computer shows. Those will work just fine, but often the case is figuring out which ones are the ones you want to purchase.
Exactly what I did, I picked up a $200 B&W HP laser printer (we don't print photo's) that works great.
The dye sub printers, although great for photographs, have their ink issues as well. Many of the current ones (atleast those designed for photo printing) have ink and paper cartridges that come together. When you run out of paper, you have to purchase a new cartridge, regardless of whether or not you used all the ink in them. Atleast the cheaper ones I have been looking into do, and the cost, still much much higher then taking your digital images to a photo processing store to get prints made.
Cheap ink cartridges and ink refills have been around since the 80's and 90's, back in the days before they started chipping the cartridges. The only thing that has changed since then, is the technology that the vendors (all of them are guilty of this), that allows the vendor to lock out any "non vendor approved" ink cartridges, and tamper sensors to determine if a cartridge was refilled. Yes it sucks, and yes, it should be illegal, but currently, its not.
:)
Hell, I remember back in the late 80's early 90's.. re-inking the ribbon cartridges on my schools old 9 pin dot matrix printer.. that thing rocked a solid page a min if I was lucky
While I am no fan of the big box retailers in general, I do recognize the fact that they do have overhead costs. I worked at Compusa in the early 2k's just after the dot.bomb era (I was a victim), and while yes, cables and accessories are rediculously priced (the rounded IDE cables back then being sold for $29 actually cost around $4, which is what I paid while working there), the profit margin on laptops and PC's was ridiculously small, we are talking 1 to 3%. There has to be a balance for stores to remain viable, if they sold everyone at 2 to 5% profit, the store would be out of business in no time. This goes for any store, regardless of industry or size. So if you want cheap laptops and TV's, then yes, they have to markup something else, otherwise expect much higher prices on the primary items you purchase.
That being said, personally, yes I bought my TV from Best Buy, was a good deal, and on sale, no I did not buy anything else from them relating to my TV as I knew I could get those things elsewhere, thats just me trying to get the best deal for myself, but I cannot get pissed off at a entity trying to remain viable and in business.
You hit the nail on the head there with the shelf shock statement. I had been going into local electronics stores whenever I happened by them, for about six months, asking if they had wii's in stock, of course the answer had been a solid no for 6 months, till the day someone said yes.. and I was confused for a min about what to do. Naturally I bought the wii.
The problem I came across, is that even though I played it for the first week or 2 (this was about 6 months ago too), after that it lost its playing appeal when I was home alone and with the wife (who hates it because the controller is not exact enough and she cannot play with it without getting pissed off). These days, I only play it in party conditions and when we have friends over for dinner. Its a great social game console, but beyond that I find it no fun to play. Unlike my old xbox (non 360), which I can sit and play alone all the time.
I stand corrected...
However, I am also willing to bet the person I responded to probably did not notice the fact that the story was a reprint from a US media outlet.
You do realise that it was the Australian media that posted this.. not the US Media... I mean seriously.. this is not even a case of reading the fucking article.. its a case of mousing over the link to the fucking article and seeing its a .au domain... Don't be such a lazy ass.
Slow news day..... This is atleast 3 days old now.
This is a plain PR release to attempt to on up Verizons PR release. There is no different between the ATT today and the ATT prior to the PR release. They have always had an open network, the ATT platform is another story, its pretty closed (ATT platform == ATT customized firmwares and such), and they love to exclude wireless if they can, and generally refuse to unlock the phones they sell, unless you beg.
I imagine if the fabric was woven into the entire structure of the building, between all floors, in all the walls etc, I suspect the dmg could have been greatly reduced by a bomb of that size. Maybe it could even act as insulation, that would help reduce building costs by using 1 substance instead of multiple substances between walls and such.
The thing about knowing what is crossing your AP, is unless your running an IDS/IPS or some other hardware based (ie on the AP), you will never know. Most AP's these days have only very basic logging, nothing special.
:)
Now I will admit, I did not read this particular article, although I did read a few elsewhere, and no where in the bill does it state that joe consumer has to run monitoring hardware/software on his network equipment.... and maybe I should not be giving them any ideas...
On the bright side.. being a network security eng.. this bill provides me more business oppertunities
Side note, it appears Verizon has been locking down all of the AP's they provide (atleast with FIOS) with basic WEP. The downside side, its using WEP, which is next to useless. Another down side is that for most people, things like WPA and such are too complicated to setup, and then still get their portable devices to connect.
Well, with regards to mobile users, there is the option of running a Funambol server, which would allow you to sync data (calender, contacts, and for some mobile variants email, which it really just pops/imaps and sends to your phone) to and from mobile devices (supports symbian, wm, hell there is even a iphone app for jailbroken iphones)
Not a complete solution for the OP or your, but a portion that you could integrate into an existing solution that requires mobility.
ps, I do not work for them.. nor do I do any development, short of trying to get it to work on FBSD.
I am pretty sure that would be illegal, and probably falls under laws that prohibit pump and dump stock scams....
I don't know where you live.. but my mortgage is more then 4 times that amount, and for that matter, my car payment is about $200 more too.. and I drive a freaking Toyota..
As for rigs, I spent a crapton.. okay maybe only $750 on my mobo, gpu and psu about 2 years ago, and that particular rig is still doing okay, granted only getting about 40 fps on UT3, but it works for me, at thats at 1600 x 1200 at med to med high settings. I do plan on finding another 7800 GT (I know its old) so I can run in SLI, that should hold me over for another year heh..
I My new laptop absolutely blows my desktop out of the water, with its little 8800 GS mobile chipset
Although I do agree with the photo ID solution.. I completely disagree with the limiting of the number of returns. I buy a crapton of stuff from homedepot (doing alot of renovation on the house). In the last 2 weekends alone, I have made 3 trips to the store to return unused (but 1 of the items had been opened, just not used) items. They take it back no questions asked, not even a restocking fee was charged, on the open items.
Although I am not the biggest fan of Home Depot, I prefer it over Lowes, who will place items back on the shelves, knowing they are broken (I purchased a router, of the wood working variety from them, returned it 3 times for a replacement before getting my money back and going elsewhere, twice the tool was broken, once it was missing items, all sealed boxes too, and not a no name brand either). HD will place unopened unsealed items back on the shelf, but opened items get sold as open box, or returned to manufacturer, and they never hassle you over returns (which sometimes gets abused of course, but apparently their CS is better then Best Buys)
Actually, they are no longer using cat5 off the ONT, they won't do it period. What they used to do when using cat5, is provide a Dlink router and a seperate NID (I forgot what this stands for). The NID is what provided guide data, and video on demand for the TV side, while the dlink provided the net access. They are no longer providing the NID, as the actiontec router includes this functionality within the router itself.
Currently, since I have tivo's on all my TV's, I could care less about the guide data provided by fios, and since its tivo, there is no VOD. So I currently have the actiontec configured as a bridge feeding to my gateway (running obsd) which then splits off to the wired segments, and a wireless segment (which is configured only to permit ipsec traffic and tivo to tivo traffic)
I know there are other MoCA devices out there, but none for commercial retail yet, only the actiontec. Hopefully, as with cable when it first came out, manufacturers will start selling after market MoCA devices.
Oddly enough, verizon does not (or atleast did not) do this. When I signed up for FIOS, it was initially only the internet and phone, no TV service (I was happy with DTV till I bought an HDTV.. and realized the cost of converting everything I had to DTV's HD capable equipment was higher then just switching to FIOS TV.. until I went out and bought an S3 tivo heh..). The price advertised was the price I paid, in fact I get a $5 discount for each additional service I subscribe to, its not much but it helps. With all 3, its about $15 a month discount, but these discounts are not reflected in their advertising.
Currently I have 15 down 5 up, FIOS TV with all the movie channels except for HBO/Cinemax, and a phone line (only really needed this for the alarm, there is no actual phone connected to it), with 2 tivos, 1 SA series 2, and 1 Series 3 with 2 cable cards, total monthly cost for me is about $130
It's hard for verizon to oversell their backbone connectivity, since technically they are the backbone... Originally UUNET used to control about 60 to 80% of the worlds backbone (I used to work at UUNET), then it became UUNET/Worldcom, then MCI/Worldcom, then MCI, then Verizon bought the whole damn thing.. so technically, Verizon is the backbone.
To be honest, I have not had my fios drop out on my in the year I have had it, and also not had any noticeable degradation of service or dip in speeds. For a company I despise only slightly less then comcast and ATT (those 3 companies are on my 'must be hit by meteor" list)...
It depends on your type of account. Obviously from a physical line standpoint, there is no redundancy, your line gets cut, your done (as will every other customer on that segment).
They have business accounts (which are actually reasonably priced), which provide some guarantees, but nothing like you would get on a DS3 or such. On the straight consumer line, its best effort, but if it goes out, your SOL till they get around to fixing it. No SLA's in place or anything like that.
This has already been beaten to death. They do not have a policy of removing the copper, they just disconnect it from the terminal at your house. The problem has been a disconnect between the installers and verizon's policy, and many of them have just been cutting the lines in your back yard only, usually flush with the ground (it is not disconnected at the CO)
I currently have FIOS, and although they have raised the price a few times since I started with it, it does not effect existing customers, only new customers signing up (atleast not till your contract expires).
As for some other statements about the contract, you do not have to sign up for a contract to get FIOS (or DSL in the DC Metro area), however if you don't go with a contract, you have to purchase you own equipment, and the rates may be slightly higher. The problem with FIOS, is there is no after market hardware, you have to use the piece of shit Actiontec, which although is a nice piece of hardware itself, the verizon butchered firmware sucks ass, and causes many issues (network related not business related) with VPN clients (most notably cisco's), and xbox network adapters (heavy packet loss, lots of latency, consistent network drops).
ps, I am no fan of verizon, on my list of companies that should die a horrible and painful death, (note I do not advocate violence against the people that work there, they have to make livings as well), the list, in order, Comcast, ATT, Verizon.. there are many more.. but those are the ones I hate the most, mostly due to their billing practices, and shitty support and CS