Comments on: Verizon boosts FiOS speed in 10 states

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By: anon1234

anon1234 — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:43:43 +0000

Ok can somebody explain this a little better? I’m in one of the states that is getting the upgrade and I have the 5/2 plan. What’s changed or where can I see what the new speeds are? Thanks in advance.

By: braga

braga — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:50:33 +0000

Hi folks,
Glad to see many have spoken in support of verizon.
I want to know how much competitive is Verizon in US overall? Just rate it out of 10. Be honest. Dont be one sided.
Thanks

By: Cromwell

Cromwell — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:08:31 +0000

“Lets hope Canada gets wise and changes their ways for the better.”

Amen to that. Canadians overall have a reluctance to doing anything the American way whenever it goes against individual interests, and thankfully that is usually reflected at the federal level (though not always). I really hope this state of mind never changes and we remain a country where the freedoms and privacy of her people always come first and not the greed of big businesses, especially all those that are foreign based.

Something I forgot to mention in my last comment is that I have trouble understanding what the big deal is with offering more and more speed if it is just going to be blocked or slowed to a crawl anyways. Do we really need 100Mbit or faster if all were allowed to do by these ISP’s is surf web pages and check e-mail? 5Mbit is plenty fast already for your average download (like anything on File Hippo). The only thing 100Mbit is good for is p2p where large files are common place, but no you’re not allowed to use it for that even when it may be perfectly legitimate traffic. Until this changes, it just isn’t worth the price premium you pay for what you get, and I hope others see it that way too. If the telecomms spend a fortune upgrading their networks but don’t see a return on that investment, perhaps they will think twice about some of the downright stupid policies they adopted over the past few years.

By: Netranger

Netranger — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:30:09 +0000

** DID YOU KNOW THIS ** Did you know that our once again corrupt government screwed us ALL over again. There is a documentary coming out about this soon.
The plan was that EVERY household in America was to have the fastest internet in the world “fiber”, and it was to be FREE! That’s right, FREE! Well sorta. The story goes for many years there was a “special” tax on all our phone bills that we paid. Then the story goes when they went to start this project, the couldn’t “find the money. That’s right, couldn’t find the money, that’s reported to be in the billions of dollars.

Looking forward to seeing this documentary. Jim

By: Scoobs

Scoobs — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:11:02 +0000

@41
The determining factor of the speed over FiOS is not the fiber itself. Fiber’s potential is nearly limitless (compared to other mediums). What DOES make a difference is the servers and the backbone that push stuff through. Besides, the only thing having 50+ Mbps is good for is really if you’re connecting to servers that can push stuff back to you at that speed (which isn’t going to be any public website I know of, with their millions of users), or if you’re doing massive p2p and usenet stuff (which everyone here is doing anyway). Now the music, software, and video industries are just going to get into more and more trouble as we try to put all our bandwidth to good use.

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 23:14:40 +0000

In hawaii I used to have a problem with traffic shaping on usenet access. I was cruising about 240KB/sec anytime I went into usenets.

I switched to giganews and added SSL access and have never been shaped once. I jet about 960KB/sec 24/7

SSL256 is sweet. I havn’t looked back. I wish I could make my entire online experience ssl.

By: Kim

Kim — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:39:27 +0000

50Mbps with fibre optic cables? They must be using the cheap stuff or something. They’ve started laying them in Britain and you can get 100Mbps with them.

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:27:17 +0000

@39: Binsearch.nl and yabse.com both provide free NZBs.

By: common sense

common sense — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:26:24 +0000

@35, ” so you guys, Americans, want us European to send you Vaseline?”

What is it with you Europeans and guys and Vaseline???

By: TheEnd187

TheEnd187 — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:31:34 +0000

@10 they dont block access to the alt.* groups they only said they are removing the groups that are for CP.

@17 they have nothign against p2p, especially since they said they want to implement their p4p system.

@23 you do get the alt.binaries groups, only thing that sux is no boneless,b4e,and usenet world ,besides those groups are just a bit faster, since the movies will just be posted on a.b.dvdr/a.b.m.divx anywyas.

@39 Vz is nothing like time warner because I basically hit about 11.5Tb each mointh and htey havent said anythign fro the past 2 years, and i see no problems with my connection, and it never goes out liek it did with comcast, plus I’m always getting my advertised speed.

By: jim

jim — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:54:23 +0000

@37 Japan is an island also .. me thinks japan is ahead US 100 years and australia maybe 250 years

By: hey

hey — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:16:21 +0000

@34 rob, how to u get nzb for free. i had heard someone mention something once but then i was told u still need to pay for something else that nzb needs. i’ve never use nzb so i’m a little confused as to what is everything u need to use nzb, so how can u use it for free?

and does anyone know if fios is actually like twc, caus ei use to have verizon but even with the more expensive plan i had to reboot the modem every other day and i always had problems streaming stuff but i dont have that problem with cable but i saw that fios prices are going down but i dunno anyone that has it so does anyone know if fios is really as good as they say or is it like the old verizon dsl? i would like to try but i’m worried that twc is going try and charge me the new plan system if i leave then go back to them. any opinions ???

By: Anna Maria

Anna Maria — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:46:57 +0000

@fat
@Scarecrow

Just remember who invented the internet.

By: Australian prices

Australian prices — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:32:45 +0000

Australian prices and speeds are the way they are because ur a freakin island. its harder and more expensive to get internet lines over there. However there’s no excuse (except greed) why america doesnt have faster internet. japan, korea and some euro countries will always be ahead of us in that aspect.