Verizon FiOS is great

[MrK6]

Dafuq?

If you read the article, you'll see that the guy was one of like 2 people on his GPON. The bandwidth wasn't being used by anyone else, and he literally could not saturate it even maxing out his connection.

You need to take your own advice. Live and let live. He wasn't inconveniencing you, or anybody else.

Except that he could. Crippling overuse of data networks by a few screws the rest of us. The fact that he was the first on it is just a matter of time.

I would have zero issues if ISP's offered higher data rates at current price points by capping usage at something reasonable at ~5TB. Also, you could pay for more if you want but if not, and you go over, only thing that happens is they clamp your speed noticeably.

 

[KeithP]

Of course the internet speeds are great with FIOS, I had it when I lived in Huntington Beach. But what I also noticed, that people rarely talk about, is HD image quality.

I have a Pioneer Kuro Plasma and when I switched from Time Warner to FIOS, the the improvement in HD video, on most channels, was immediately noticeable. Time Warner most have been compressing the crap of the their video in HB.

-KeithP

 

[mfenn]

Except that he could. Crippling overuse of data networks by a few screws the rest of us. The fact that he was the first on it is just a matter of time.

I would have zero issues if ISP's offered higher data rates at current price points by capping usage at something reasonable at ~5TB. Also, you could pay for more if you want but if not, and you go over, only thing that happens is they clamp your speed noticeably.

Verizon has a ton of smart network engineers that can QoS the shit out of somebody who is causing a problem. They didn't, so he wasn't. The only issue they had was with him running a business on a residential contract.

 

[birthdaymonkey]

I live in the boonies of Canada (east coast), but we actually have some of the best internet in the country. 'Cept here it's called FibreOp (and we call "Z" "zed").

 

[SViscusi]

FIOS has been great since I got it two years ago. 50/25 and with phone and tv it's actually $30 cheaper than TW.

 

[JOHNBON00007]

Don't forget the extra gift card for fifty dollars with Fios new customer, let me know if you need it.