http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/ Engadget Comments for Verizon pushing FiOS internet to 50Mbps throughout US http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/Jun 18th 2008 8:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/Jun 18th 2008 8:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/http://www.epinions.com/content_417871531652


I tested my line speed on Speakeasy and saw that it was easily 3 times faster downloading than Cable in my area.

I only have the basic package. If they push up to 50Mbps, I'm thinking the benefit will mostly be for FIOS TV cause computers themselves begin to bottleneck the data delivery. I use FIOS on Xbox 360, PS3 and my laptop. I haven't noticed a major difference in online gaming that hasn't been for the worst - it seems my games are laggier than when I used DSL. But the connection is more reliable and won't disconnect during storms.]]>Jun 18th 2008 8:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/Jun 18th 2008 10:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/
50 Mbps is hardly bottle neck material. My firewire port does 400 Mbps, my 1394 hard drive's bottle neck is the firewire interface it's self. Most modern computers can easily handle one gigabit internet speeds. ]]>Jun 19th 2008 3:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/Jun 19th 2008 3:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/
Verizon FiOS deployments are designed for triple play - voice, internet, and video (high def). Verizon uses MPEG4 High Def feeds, so you gotta figure they're slicing off about 10Mpbs for a single HD feed. They take another 6 out for voice and you've got a 34Mbps connection AT BEST, if the equipment isn't throttling your connection because it's been stuffed into outside plant retrofits that can't cool it enough, if your ISP is giving you unrestricted access, and if your house's internal wiring isn't screwing it up.]]>Jun 19th 2008 3:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/Jun 18th 2008 8:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/Jun 18th 2008 11:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/Jun 18th 2008 8:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/
UK = 244,820 sq. km
Japan = 377,835 sq. km
US = 9,629,091sq. km
California = 411,015 sq. km]]>Jun 18th 2008 12:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/Jun 18th 2008 12:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/Jun 18th 2008 9:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/Jun 18th 2008 8:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/Jun 18th 2008 8:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/Jun 18th 2008 8:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/Jun 18th 2008 8:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/]]>Jun 18th 2008 9:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/Jun 18th 2008 9:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/
It should be $35.00/month for 50Mbps.]]>Jun 18th 2008 10:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/Jun 18th 2008 11:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/Jun 18th 2008 8:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/Jun 18th 2008 9:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/Jun 18th 2008 9:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/Jun 18th 2008 9:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/Jun 18th 2008 10:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/Jun 18th 2008 7:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/Jun 18th 2008 8:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/Jun 18th 2008 8:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/
Personally, I prefer Korea. We've got 100Mbps for about $30/month.

In my case, I decided to save $10/month and "settle" for 10Mbps. Though, I do admit the connection gets a little sluggish on Fri/Sat nights when Starcraft gamers log on.

(I also expect the internet here to slow to a crawl for a month after Starcraft 2 is released.)]]>Jun 18th 2008 8:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/
It's easy to provide "100Mbps" service that's oversubscribed to all hell. Technically, at my university, we have "1000Mbps" service (gigabit ethernet). But of course you never see that except to internal servers (and Akamai servers, like Windows Update - we have a mirror on campus).

If your internet gets slow because of "Starcraft Gamers", clearly it's heavily oversubscribed and really can't take the load. That's how you offer a "lot" of bandwidth for cheap.

DOCSIS 2.0 (which Comcast is using right now) can handle 40Mbps. They could sell "40Mbps" connectivity tomorrow if they wanted to. The problem is that there isn't enough capacity to really support people using that kind of bandwidth.

So, yeah, wake me up when you can do 100Mbit/s downloading Ubuntu ISOs over BitTorrent. If you can, great. If you can't, then your "100Mbps" connection really isn't.]]>Jun 19th 2008 12:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/
I have fios 15 Mbps symmetrical (supposedly), and it seems like I never get these speeds... I know rates vary and depend on a lot of things, but I'd be happier just to get what I'm currently paying for.

You know what? Screw the bandwidth. I'd like less latency (I PLAY GAMEZ).]]>Jun 18th 2008 8:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/Jun 18th 2008 10:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/Jun 18th 2008 8:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/Jun 18th 2008 8:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/Jun 18th 2008 8:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/

Fuck comcast!]]>Jun 18th 2008 8:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/
I hated dealing w/ those asshats back when Las Colinas had no competition in Texas.

Finally on the FIOS bandwagon, currently 15mbps and it has been bliss ever since]]>Jun 18th 2008 9:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/Jun 18th 2008 8:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/
Much more useful would be if someone could find and post a link to an actual service map that shows where FIOS is actually available across the country. Something along the lines of the cellphone coverage maps AT&T and Verizon offer up on their websites.

In my part of Los Angeles, Verizon is tight lipped about when FIOS is coming. Even in more affluent areas, where you'd think the market would be larger, they won't say when they're coming. But hey, they'll give me their crappy DSL service in the mean time. LOL. Hate Time Warner if you will, but around here it beats Verizon DSL.]]>Jun 18th 2008 8:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/
http://www.dslreports.com/gmaps/fios
]]>Jun 18th 2008 8:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/
Currently 5/2 but may upgrade and add TV later this year. A coworker has the TV service and he said the quality is FAR superior to Comcast's HD service.]]>Jun 18th 2008 8:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/Jun 18th 2008 8:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/Jun 18th 2008 12:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/Jun 18th 2008 8:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/Jun 18th 2008 8:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/
nice.]]>Jun 18th 2008 8:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/
but we dont have that here in NC........dammit all..........

not to mention I cant stand Contracts........they can have that.....wut if Time Warner or another competitor ups its speeds and I wanna switch??? damn that......]]>Jun 18th 2008 8:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/Is this implying that they are going to upgrade me to 10 for the same price? That would be very nice.]]>Jun 18th 2008 8:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/verizon-pushing-fios-internet-to-50mbps-throughout-us/Jun 23rd 2008 8:25PM