Verizon upgrades upload speed to 20 Mbit
Verizon Communications on Tuesday introduced an unusual plan for its fiber-optic Internet service: one that uploads as fast as it downloads. The new plan has maximum download and upload speeds of 20 megabits per second. It will cost $65 per month with an annual contract for those who have a Verizon phone plan, or $5 more for those without. The plan is available initially in Verizon’s New York, New Jersey and Connecticut FiOS service areas, which are mostly suburbs. In those areas, Verizon faces competition from the country’s most sophisticated major cable company, Cablevision Systems Corp., and it’s generally where Verizon raises FiOS speeds first. Verizon spokesman Mark Marchand said the “symmetrical” service plan will be available “soon” in the 13 other states where it provides FiOS service, but did not give a date.
Verizon’s top-of-line plan provides downloads of 50 mbps and uploads of 5 mbps. That ratio, with upload speeds at a tenth or twentieth of the download speeds, is more typical of Internet service. By raising the upload speed, Verizon is taking advantage of the capacity of fiber optics in a way that’s very hard for cable companies to replicate. The cable service involves sharing capacity among neighbors. Marchand said the new plan should be useful to telecommuters and others who work from home. Video conferencing, movie uploads and online backups should all benefit from the upload speed. As an example, he said a 3 gigabyte file of family movies would take 20 minutes to upload on the new plan, compared with 9 hours on a typical digital subscriber line connection. The high upload speed makes the plan similar to but slower than the business-class connections used to host websites. However, here’s a small catch for those of you who already started thinking abour running their own topsite at home: Verizon won’t allow subscribers to run a server from their home. Anyway, we are still far cry from the Asian reality, where it’s fairly common to have 100/100 Mbit at home…
Source: USA Today, CNN
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Well, it’s certainly a start. Glad to see that some companies out there recognize the need for better upload speeds. Now here’s hoping it eventually hits us hicks in Nebraska who are uploading on a 384K connection.
^^ I have a connection of 1500/256 with 40gb download limit. So crappy compared to what is overseas, but is generally one of the better plans in Australia.
Come on over to Sweden why don’t you. $65 for 20mbps? I laugh at your feeble internetz
I’m a Swede and I got 100 up 100 down
100/100 BBB (Bredbandsbolaget) for the win.
Besides, in Sweden the general population that has access to Internet have at least 2mbit or more.
(PS. No phonecompany in sweden has download limits unless it’s administered by the actual owner of the internetsubscription.)
// GREETZ FROM STÅCKHOLM!
ye i must say i pity everybody outside scandinavia :>
even though it is not very uncommon here in japan for ppl living in flats to have 100/100 or perhaps the more common 100/30 we still cant utilise it fully since most servers r not in asia but rather in us or europe meaning that for me a common download rate is 300 KB/s (that’s bytes and NOT bits.
Lol, pisses all over my 30kb/s upload rate!
sry, i forgot the prise for this. the monthly cost for a year-contract is appr 3,500 JPY, between 35~40 USD
i am from Greece but you Swedes must stop be arrogant….we all know that you have high speeds but stop showing off or else Bush will nuke your small 5 milllion people country
sigh, we in Belgium r still @ the dark ages..
very common to have 4Mbit/256Kbit DSL lines with 10 GB bandwidth limit / month.
really, the bandwidth limits here are a pile of horse****
max speed in brazil is 8Mbit/500Kbit Cable and DSL.
i pay approx 45 dollars for 512/512 kbps speeds
and a pathetic customercare where rectifying a problem takes almost 2 days.
yah, that sucks in western canada you get Up to 5 Mbps download speed
60 GB/month data transfer
10 personal email accounts
7 No Cost Features
shaw really sucks
does anyone know that website for illegal satellites
I have a friend in Japan, 2GB download and pays 50 dollars monthly..
0_o
Anonymous: Arrogant, we? We’r e just boasting a little, no harm in that. 5 million citizens? Try 10.
And I just have to say that I’m very satisfied with my 10/10 mbit connection for about 15 dollars a month!
I’m from Romania where 4mb/512kb is maximum i want to move to Sweden or Japan,not yet decided
Here in Greece we have lots of providers with unlimited d/l at speeds up to 24Mbit (theoretically always). But upload is limited to 1Mbit, or more commonly 512Kbit. This sucks. We should all have at least 1Mbit upload.
OFF SUBJECT
Why does this site now resort to popups and MS Office install crap!
Disapointing
In Holland there is no download limit, soon I get 20Mbit download and 1 Mbit upload for 26 dollar. Really cheap for Holland.
I Have 20Mbit in uk, no restrictions and it costs me £15 a month
all the stuff about sweden sounds so great, but what most people fail to realise is this, the really high speed connecs. are only available in the large cities, other than that, they are running on ADSL+2 with ma up speed around 2mbit.
The whole japan thing sounds sweet as well, but knowing their latency, I would prefer an european xDSL line anyday.
I mean ADSL2+, and ma = max.
@Bugger: That’s true. However, the 24/2.5 Mbit/s pretty much everyone can get (or if you’re unlucky 8/0.8) is still much better and cheaper than most countries outside Scandinavia (Japan is an exception) and is free from any kind of limits. Besides, the same applies to Japan as well, as far as I know. It’s just that their cities are bigger.
All I can say is SWEEEET!
But! Will VZ sell its customers to the **AA’s? Because Up speeds really don’t have any other use besides the distribution of content. Which for a lot of us citizens can become a problem.
Also, if they don’t allow outbound connections then what’s it good for?… BT will not function properly until the other peers will adapt to the VZ peer in question and that takes time… on RS it might be good, but ppl using that kind of service mostly leech instead of share and RS’s servers, as fast as they are, they lag during rush-hour. The only good thing is leeching of UseNet… and that doesn’t help us at all… by ‘us’ I’m referring to the pirate community!
So what’s the benefit besides marketing and more profit for VZ? You’re not in Sweden after all!
Verizon FIOS has a good union of expert worker who work on the FIOS system over in the US, but it is under attack because of verizon being too much of a corporation. The union workers built this great line, and now Verizon wants to screw them.
http://ibew2222.org/verizons_broken_promises
As for shaw, I always new they sucked but it’s the best thing we have here. Some things that shaw makes up for bad upload speeds:
*24/7 phone support by non-exported workers
*a repair guy will go to your home within a week if a problem they need to fix occurs
*bundle discounts
*good monthly download/upload limit
*a very liberal terms of service
*as far as I know so far they don’t report your info to the investigators unless you’re a big child porn downloader/king pin. and even then they need a warrant for that.
We can download 25Mbit down 1Up but the 10down 1up plan is like $80/month and it’s expensive compared to the deal you get with verizon. Even tho in Vancouver they have installed FIOS routes you still only get the same capped down/up speeds as everyone else.
ps – with internet like that sweden may sound like a good vacation spot
I’m from Slovenia and have 10Mb/10Mb and paying 14 EUR/month. No bandwidth limit. Max speed that my ISP offers is 1GB/1GB and costs 1000 EUR/Month. Prices are for FTTH, VDSL is a bit more expensive.
Bloody hell, I live in Holland and my ISP charges me 70 EUR a month for 15 dl /1.5 up… I have to add that the package comes with a 200GB subscription to Giganews, but that’s still pretty darn expensive.
Damn i would appreciate anything higher than my actual 512kb/128kb connection in Poland served by a monopolist company (TP) who wishes a tribute of 25$ per month, taking into consideration that i earn appr. 20$ a day….so where is a decent place in sweden to settle?
One more thing, I am an uploader at Demonoid.com and sometimes uploads a torrent of 7gb so imagine my sacrifice at 128kb/s up
Aw, Hell. Think about how I feel with my “Blazing Fast” 6Mbit dl speed and “Fantastic” 384Kbit upload speed.
I’m definitely moving to Verizon now. F*ck Comcast and all their “Extremely Fast” internets.
It’s great that I was already set on moving to the same carrier for internet as I already have for cell service; I wonder if there are any discounts?
I’m a from Slovakia 60Mbs/8Mbs no limits only 35$!!!
I’m currently paying 40USD for a 2Mbit/1Mbit unlimited connection… And I’m quite happy, considering I’ve just moved from a 160Kbit/160Kbit one… My HDs are full, anyway.
im in Romania
my connection is 2Mbit/1Mbit and I pay 7 euros/month. I’m satisfied.
oh yeah, and there are no limits
im in pennsylvania and i got a 10Mbit/1Mbit connection from RCN for 40USD. pisses me off cuz alot of ppl have 10Mbit/10Mbit for the same price and i upload a lot.
not available in my area. and i live in silicon valley for f*ck sake. we dont get sh*t here i just dont get it.
oh you mofos… Here in Mexico City ISP’s sucks, i have the top service you can get with cable wich is 1.5Mb/768Kb for $50 bucks monthly, now THAT sucks my friends.
You can run a website, just not on port 80. I tested it just to make sure. They only block that port, and smtp ports. Everything else is open.
20mb down, 0.7mb up. $65/month (£32ish). UK
All of you people complaining about your speeds whould STFU until you start paying more for the top speed your ISP provides.
If you are going to be cheap and buy a slow package, then you are getting what you pay for. Enjoy your slow speeds and your pocket full of money.
$100 NZD / ~$75 USD == 10/2mbps cable, 40gb datacap. New Zealand.
I live six blocks down the road from Microsoft Redmond campus, and Verizon FIOS is still not available here.
WTF???
Alex, you don’t get it, do you? For most countries, speeds people are posting here are the best thing we can get! =/
Not only in our ISPs, but in the whole country… US, Japan and Scandinavia are exceptions, not the rule. Even there, it’s not everywhere.
@slow
Well, how are companies in those countries able to provide such speeds but your country isn’t?
I have the very best plan I could find when I moved to Australia.
It is a 1.5Mb Download and 256K Upload, with unlimited data (only company in Australia I could find – Dodo) for the princely sum of $99AUD (about $90 USD) per month.
The connection is crap, I usually download torrents at about 10-20kb max..
Yay! Living in NY is finally going to pay off. Maybe I’ll dump my Optimum Online 20Mbit/2Mbit connection for FIOS.
here in turkey we don’t have adsl
only pstn 56 kbps for $100 per month
i got the 5mb/2mb plan for 40 a month, maybe i should pay the extra 10$ a month for 15/2?
You can get 100Mbit/100Mbit in Sweden. In some places you can get 1Gbit/1Gbit. I pay 20 dollars a week for 8Mbit/1Mbit. If you live near the telestations you can get 100Mbit for 30-50 dollars i think.
http://www.thelocal.se/7869/20070712/
In Sweden.
Poland 12mb/6Mb for for 50$ with cable tv
but real download speed you can get is ~300-400kb\s
1.5Mbps/192kbps (35€) is max in Serbia for home users
But I have 8Mbps/8Mbps on work for free
ezet you! I of Russia, we 128Kbit / s is $ 20, with the restriction in the 5gb. A truly unlimited Internet starts from $ 1000 and you …