Verizon is da eval!!1
I mentioned previously that our town has FIOS available. Verizon recently called and pretty much offered the kitchen sink in order to get my business. I'm sorry I did this because now I will be unable to leave my house. I'll become one of those terrible people they take out on a forklift after cutting open the side of the house.
Verizon offered 15 mbps download/ 2 mbps upload for $30 a month. In addition they we also got FIOS television which is insane in its capabilities. I've had satellite, my friends had digital cable and this blows them all away. They have literally over a thousand free shows available just in their ON DEMAND section where you can watch them commercial-free, anytime you want. I don't really like television but you take most of the interesting channels (for me at least like Discovery, DIY, etc.) and make dozens of shows available on demand anytime and things could get scary. Couple it with a DVR and I'm sorry, the forklift will soon be idling.
Run while you can, and don't say you weren't warned.
Nick
Verizon offered 15 mbps download/ 2 mbps upload for $30 a month. In addition they we also got FIOS television which is insane in its capabilities. I've had satellite, my friends had digital cable and this blows them all away. They have literally over a thousand free shows available just in their ON DEMAND section where you can watch them commercial-free, anytime you want. I don't really like television but you take most of the interesting channels (for me at least like Discovery, DIY, etc.) and make dozens of shows available on demand anytime and things could get scary. Couple it with a DVR and I'm sorry, the forklift will soon be idling.
Run while you can, and don't say you weren't warned.
Nick
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I'm still cranking out $60 for 4.4Mbit/300somethingK
EDIT: Needed angry smiley
Originally posted by Placebo
How is the FIOS ping and consistency of speed? Is it closer to DSL or cable in terms of those two attributes?
It is very much like DSL because the bandwidth is not shared in any fashion.
Oh and this just in that my wife discovered. This could be old hat to others but slacks like me haven't learned about it yet. Our pay channels put the movies they are showing for the month available on demand. So instead of having to start watching it at their time, I can watch it anytime. HBO, Cinemax, all on demand. Pretty cool.
Nick
Originally posted by Placebo
That's what I assumed, but the negative thing with DSL is latency, which is why I chose cable, to avoid as much of online multiplayer lag as possible.
Your latency shouldn't be any worse with equivalent cable and DSL connections.
In fact, there are many reasons for cable latency to be worse on average...
-being on a crowded node
-having a kinked cable (crushes the dielectric, messes with shielding)
-having multiple splits to other TVs and cable devices (lowers SnR)
The one thing about DSL is that it quite often gives you less data rate for the buck, so poor latency can be experienced when people are doing multiple uploads/downloads on your line.