Brian Alvey: Is it wrong to love Verizon?

Our Verizon guy just finished installing FIOS, their fiber optic Internet and phone service here. Even though my cable modem connection here gets rave reviews when people camp out in my home office, I was ordering some phone services and they sold me on trying FIOS.

I was convinced to try it for two reasons. First, they switch out your lines with fiber optic cabling and you get to keep that even if you cancel the FIOS service. That was attractive because my phone lines are legendary for their crackling noises. Second, it costs half as much as my business cable service and they promise way more speed up and down the line.

I did a speed test on Bandwidth Place and my existing cable connection rates 2.6 megabits per second and has a subjective rating of "Great".

Then I did a speed test on my new FIOS service and it rates 27 megabits per second and has a subjective rating of "Unbelievable". They aren't kidding!

That crackling is gone on our phone calls, too.

I'll let you know if it ever slows down or has trouble, but if you combine Verizon's FIOS with their EVDO -- which I can't travel without anymore -- I just might start loving Verizon.

Unbelievable.

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Adam 1168 days ago

Anyone for Video-On-Demand HDTV? :D
ADSL2+ here - 24Mbps down, but only 1Mbp up
I think back to downloading files on a 28k modem...we've come along way, baby
Collin Yeadon 1168 days ago

Where abouts are you located? I thought for sure CogentCo(dot)com would have been the first to expand their fiber network to residential but I guess they have slowed down a bit hte past few years. I'm sure for like $10k install plus $1000 a month you can get their 100mbps connection.
I'm curious, what your upload speeds are testing at? Is it 27 up and down? My cable modem in Orlando gives me about 4.7mbps down but less then 400k up which sucks for 2 VoIP phones.
Brian Alvey 1168 days ago

Westchester, NY. This service is more like $55/month and free installation. I haven't converted over my home network and I didn't test upload speeds, but they said it would be 5 MBps upstream. We'll see.
Daniel Nicolas 1168 days ago

I think this does it: bandwidth is at the top of my list for reason to move.
dc 1147 days ago

Argh, I've been reading about FIOS for a while now, but they stated they would attack individual homes first before making it available for condos/apartment buildings. In essence I don't think I'll be seeing this in Brookly anytime soon.

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