The FiOS juggernaut, will it stop?

iatacs19 · 06-18-2008, 10:49 AM

50mbps download and 20mbps upload over entire FiOS network.

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Verizon FiOS's blazingest 50Mbps downstream/20Mbps upstream package is no longer confined to the pit of the tri-state NY/NJ/CT area and select other locales. Starting next week, it'll be available across Verizon's entire, growing FiOS footprint in 16 states. (Though it'll run $139.95 a month to NY and VA's bargain $89.95/month.) Also, everyone who got 15/15 Mbps now has the option for 20/20 symmetrical ($64.95 a month), and its lower end packages are getting juiced from 15/2 Mbps to 20/5 Mbps, and from 5/2 Mbps to 10/2 Mbps (uh, why do you people have FiOS?). Overall, a nice day to be a FiOS customer, even more so than before. *Kicks stupid cable modem*

Source*

Verizon press release

Makes my "business grade" 15mbps download and 2mbps upload look like a 33.6kbps modem.

Kensta335 · 06-18-2008, 11:28 AM

Sucks that I'm not in the Verizon area.

777ER · 06-18-2008, 11:56 AM

What I don't understand is why my damn hardwired and wi-fi router supplied by Verizon freezes and shuts down whenever I watch Netflix online?
Got to power it down then back up and wait for it to connect again...repeat the process a few times after everytime trying to watch movies online and still doesn't get thru.

RCNet · 06-18-2008, 11:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Kensta335

Sucks that I'm not in the Verizon area.

I agree!! To make things worse my coworkers and "friends" live just 10 miles away from me and keep rubbing my nose in the fact that they have FIOS and I don't.

The latest feature they are touting is the fact that with the TV service you can watch things saved on the DVR on any television connected to your home network. GRRRR!!

And everything is cheaper than my lousy Comcast internet/TV service.

vAnt826 · 06-18-2008, 10:27 PM

It will stop when it hits Seattle. Our gov here is not tech savvy.

TK-421 · 06-18-2008, 11:14 PM

its crazy just how much theyre owning basically everyone. it now takes me longer to open the firefox 3 program than load a 56k thread and im not even paying that much for it

mpimping · 06-19-2008, 08:07 PM

verizon= greedy

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