Verizon FIOS

soundgarden · 03-03-2005, 05:18 PM

Does anyone use this service?

It is broadband using fiber optics. Verizon claims that you can achieve downsteam speeds from 5-30 Mbps and upstream from 2-5 Mbps.

the price is 49.99 a month.

I am using roadrunner and I get up to 500Kbps downstream and I pay 59.99 a month.

http://www22.verizon.com/fiosforhome...netForHome.asp

horndude · 03-03-2005, 05:22 PM

roadrunner should be giving you better than that, I regularly see 4.3Mbps down and about 530Kbps up, over last 2 days alone Ive had 15.3GB of throughput

beedubaya · 03-03-2005, 05:30 PM

An area not far from me has a fiber optic service much like FIOS, although its a different company that does it. You get awesome speeds with FIOS, but i've heard latency can be horrible at times. Lets get majestic in here, he has experience with FIOS.

MST3kGeek · 03-04-2005, 02:28 AM

i remember hearing about this a couple months back, probably more like 4 or 5 months but yeah, it isnt available in all areas yet. but if youre in one of the test areas for this service its about the best deal you can get. i know a guy in alaska paying nearly that and he has a bandwith limit per month

majistic · 03-04-2005, 12:46 PM

I have experience with Verizon FIOS, I have used it for months. It has great down speed when it feels like it. The speeds are to much for the ISP servers to handle so there is numerous outages. My family has had it before and I would say 1-3 days out of the week it is up and running. They got sued here for breaking their policys. I dont reccomend it. Stay with what you have for another few months untill the technology becomes higher and their servers can handle it.

soundgarden · 03-04-2005, 12:52 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by majistic
I have experience with Verizon FIOS, I have used it for months. It has great down speed when it feels like it. The speeds are to much for the ISP servers to handle so there is numerous outages. My family has had it before and I would say 1-3 days out of the week it is up and running. They got sued here for breaking their policys. I dont reccomend it. Stay with what you have for another few months untill the technology becomes higher and their servers can handle it.

Thanks alot for your reply.

I was hesitant because I remember not too long ago Verizon began replacing the copper wires with fiber optic cables. I had a feeling there would be numerous times when the service would fail. Thank you for confirming my thoughts.

03-03-2005, 05:18 PM	#1 (permalink)
soundgarden Super Techie Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 332	Verizon FIOS Does anyone use this service? It is broadband using fiber optics. Verizon claims that you can achieve downsteam speeds from 5-30 Mbps and upstream from 2-5 Mbps. the price is 49.99 a month. I am using roadrunner and I get up to 500Kbps downstream and I pay 59.99 a month. http://www22.verizon.com/fiosforhome...netForHome.asp

03-03-2005, 05:30 PM	#3 (permalink)
beedubaya Lord Techie Join Date: May 2004 Posts: 5,234	An area not far from me has a fiber optic service much like FIOS, although its a different company that does it. You get awesome speeds with FIOS, but i've heard latency can be horrible at times. Lets get majestic in here, he has experience with FIOS. __________________ ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe Motherboard AMD Opteron 165 @ 2.25GHz 2GB G.Skill Extreme PC4000 RAM Leadtek Winfast GeForce 7800GT Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi "I know the human being and fish can co-exist peacefully" - George W. Bush

03-04-2005, 02:28 AM	#4 (permalink)
MST3kGeek Newb Techie Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 40	i remember hearing about this a couple months back, probably more like 4 or 5 months but yeah, it isnt available in all areas yet. but if youre in one of the test areas for this service its about the best deal you can get. i know a guy in alaska paying nearly that and he has a bandwith limit per month __________________ \"Shhhh, he\'s talking about his area\"

03-04-2005, 12:46 PM	#5 (permalink)
majistic Monster Techie Join Date: May 2004 Posts: 1,389	I have experience with Verizon FIOS, I have used it for months. It has great down speed when it feels like it. The speeds are to much for the ISP servers to handle so there is numerous outages. My family has had it before and I would say 1-3 days out of the week it is up and running. They got sued here for breaking their policys. I dont reccomend it. Stay with what you have for another few months untill the technology becomes higher and their servers can handle it. __________________ MSI NEO2 PLAT//A64 3500+//4x512 OCZ Gold PC3200//6800GT//2 WD 320GB HDD//NEC DVD+-RW//

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03-03-2005, 05:22 PM	#2 (permalink)
horndude Master Techie Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 2,532	roadrunner should be giving you better than that, I regularly see 4.3Mbps down and about 530Kbps up, over last 2 days alone Ive had 15.3GB of throughput