Verizon fiber service

[Defcon|Rich]

I just ran across this from verizon, 50mbps looks interesting. Anyone using it yet?

 

 

http://www22.verizon.com/Content/ConsumerFiOS/

[DougK94]

I have had the 15/2 for almost a year. I could not justify the cost of their top plan, but 49.95 is great

 

I have had no problems whatsoever with it. If you can get FIOS, you are crazy if you do not get it

[Defcon|Rich]

It's available in this area and has a 30 day money back guarantee so maybe I'll give it a try. Just have to come up with a good answer for the wife when she asks "Is this something we need?"

 

 

Thanks for the feedback Doug!

[DougK94]

I got smart 15 years ago, so now I am the only one I have to convince of these things

 

Also check on the TV service too

[Jase]

God I wish I lived in the states.

 

Here in the UK we pay silly money for our internet. I'm paying £26/27 monthly for 8meg ADSL. :-(

[Daersun]

Oh Jase, when I was living in the UK, I had a 600-700UKP/month bill because DSL didnt exist, fucking 2p/minute telephone service.

[mafia2k5]

looll its not expensivE!!! i have 10mbdown/1mb up and paying 74.95$ Canadian no cap

[swish]

FIOS is great. My buddy has it and its very very fast and uptime is awsome. Ill get it @ home and the office once its available here.

[DougK94]

Maybe this will convince you Rich, from home in Indiana to the same datacenter in Dallas we use

 

Download Speed: 15159 kbps (1894.9 KB/sec transfer rate)

Upload Speed: 1825 kbps (228.1 KB/sec transfer rate)

[adamnp]

I tried it a while back rich here in connecticut, and to be frank, the $69.99 I was paying here in CT (Web prices didn't apply for me for some reason) I achieved about 1600KB/sec download and about 250KB/sec upload.

 

I achieve about 900KB/sec down and 300KB/sec up with my 19.99 comcast plan. Cant see justifying that difference in price personally.

[Chew]

Rich,

 

When I had comcast my service was down for periods greater than 30 minutes almost twice a week.

 

I've got the 15/2 FiOS plan since January, and haven't had a single outage.

 

Nor do my speeds fluctuate. I get download and upload speeds consistently faster than my advertised tier.

 

If you've got the opportunity for it, let it rip, I couldn't be happier.

[Defcon|Rich]

I'm checking on it now Matt, Thanks for the feedback

[adamnp]

Any followup rich?

 

The service I had 6 months ago was trial, so curious if you checked out what they are currenty offering....I finally see ad's on TV

[Defcon|Rich]

To be honest I haven't had the time to look into it further. I have to call and find out if it's available in my area.

[DougK94]

You get it ordered yet Rich?

[Defcon|Rich]

Apparently it's only available in Greenwich (CT) right now so I'll have to wait

[DougK94]

Not to bring up an old post, but I just upgraded to 15/15 on my FiOS.... sure cuts down on the FTP times

 

 

But with these speeds, it could hurt us all as people would not need to rent from a GSP when they have enough BW to host a game server from home......

[swish]

Maybe someday it could hurt but in the mean time there are ALOT of areas FIOS isnt available.

[JasonF]

there are ALOT of areas FIOS isnt available.

 

I live in the sticks and there is not much of a selection for internet service. What service is available is very crappy. The day FIOS comes out there is the day hell freezes over.

[DougK94]

Maybe someday it could hurt but in the mean time there are ALOT of areas FIOS isnt available.

 

That is what I meant. At some point in time others will also be providing the same type of service. But I do not see that happening for a few years. Look how many areas still are only able to use dial-up.

 

I was paying $44.95 for 15/2 and saw they had this 15/15 for $64.95 and for $20 mote the increase in upload was worth it. The next plan is 30/15 for $139 which I can not justify. Overall tho, a hell of a lot better then it was at $24.95 for 14.4 dial up service not that many years ago.

[{-SMAKU-}_MotorMouth]

I'm paying $99 for 10 down 1 up with Charter. I wish it was avaible here too.

[qwidjib0]

It's always been so acceptable for a local ISP to oversell their capacity like nobody's business- but if you can push 1/4 of that on the segment they put you on without dropping packets while you game, it sounds like it's worth it. We've got 10Mbps down on Insight here, and on a good day from a good source 6-7Mbps downstream is realistic (though during peak hours it's more like 1-2Mbps).

 

Let us know how it turns up if you go for it.

[{-SMAKU-}_MotorMouth]

The good thing is I get close to 10 down. usually around 9 and some change. Upload is really over 1mb around 1.3. But I would love the speed of FiOS.

[HGN-Daniel]

I have charter here (5/512) and its usually at 2-3mbps down (it only goes up to 5 during the later hours). They offer 10/1 here but theres no way I'm going to pay $80 a month for something that I probably won't get.

[DougK94]

My Fios at home