joebabyny Posted April 6, 2007 Share Posted April 6, 2007 Just got verizon fios internet yesterday, WOW! It is like i am pulling the pages from cache in memory on my machine, the pages just flash and they are there, I have never had anything this fast, and I have a t1 line in the office that 5 users share. 20 Mbps download and 5 Mbps upload is the plan I got, and all the speedtest sights confirm that is what I am getting and my connection is faster than 98% of the country and the world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EM31 Posted April 6, 2007 Share Posted April 6, 2007 Just got verizon fios internet yesterday, WOW! It is like i am pulling the pages from cache in memory on my machine, the pages just flash and they are there, I have never had anything this fast, and I have a t1 line in the office that 5 users share. 20 Mbps download and 5 Mbps upload is the plan I got, and all the speedtest sights confirm that is what I am getting and my connection is faster than 98% of the country and the world. FIOS is c ool I have had the same plan for about 6 months. I will post some neat speedtest sites when I get home. 50 mbs or even 100 mbs (symetrical !!!) is not unheard of in many asian countries or even in some parts of europe. Sorry to say that our infrastucture is badly lagging behind much of the rest of the developed world in this regard. I am with you though as far as being faster than 98% of US connections though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joebabyny Posted April 6, 2007 Author Share Posted April 6, 2007 FIOS is c ool I have had the same plan for about 6 months. I will post some neat speedtest sites when I get home. 50 mbs or even 100 mbs (symetrical !!!) is not unheard of in many asian countries or even in some parts of europe. Sorry to say that our infrastucture is badly lagging behind much of the rest of the developed world in this regard. I am with you though as far as being faster than 98% of US connections though. Yeah, there definitely are countries that do offer much higher speeds, like Japan, but I have travelled to Asia and Europe and South America and overall it can vary greatly. Just did my test on speedtest.net here from the office where we have our own t1 dedicated to just us for data and there are 5 computers on the network and I rank faster than 66% of connections in the US and 58% of the world, compared to the test i used last night with fios which gave me 97% of the US and 98% of the world, and the fios connection is much cheaper. That remaining 2-3 percent is for the big datacenters with fiber coming in and the fios-type service in countries like Japan. I think in Japan a lot of people have something crazy like 100Mbps up and down, which is what you would get here if you paid hundreds of dollars for a dedicated server in a datacenter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JetsMan57 Posted April 6, 2007 Share Posted April 6, 2007 Does Verizon offer just their internet service or would you also have to buy their TV service? I have their DSL currently.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joebabyny Posted April 6, 2007 Author Share Posted April 6, 2007 Does Verizon offer just their internet service or would you also have to buy their TV service? I have their DSL currently.... You can do them on their own. I do not have any phone service, i use cell, and i don't use their tv, but when the fios tv becomes available i will probably spring for it. So I am only a fios internet customer of theirs. IF i want to add telephone and/or cable the hardware is pretty much already there when i make the choice. Dude, if you are messing with their dsl and they offer fios, DEFINITELY switch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L.S. Dylan Posted April 6, 2007 Share Posted April 6, 2007 yeah joeybaby i am getting it in a few days, can't wait. i love how cable companies now have to compete for us because cablevision was getting stupid taking away hbo unless you have that box. suck it cablevision Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joebabyny Posted April 6, 2007 Author Share Posted April 6, 2007 yeah joeybaby i am getting it in a few days, can't wait. i love how cable companies now have to compete for us because cablevision was getting stupid taking away hbo unless you have that box. suck it cablevision Yeah, same thing with Time Warner, 115.00 for JUST cable tv for one tv without internet is absurd. I can't wait until the fios tv is rolled out in my area. Competition is definitely good, and it seems like this definitely is a product able to compete with the established cable operators. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EM31 Posted April 6, 2007 Share Posted April 6, 2007 Internet was available first in my area before the TV. Some regulatory apporvals were needed. I signed up the day that both were available. The TV has some more choices. One notable channel that is not available in NY is MSNBC. Apparently Cablevision has some exclusive agreement becase FIOS carries the channel elsewhere in the country. Ah well... no more Hardball with Chris Mathews for me. Or the Kieth Oberman show whatever the name was... NFL Total access was a big surprise. NFL replay which they show during the week in the season is great way to watch an entire game in 30 minutes. You end up watching a lot of other teams games with that option. One big pain in the ass, as I think I mentioned elsewhere is that TV's with no box get about 15 channels or so and five of those are various PBS channels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joebabyny Posted April 6, 2007 Author Share Posted April 6, 2007 Internet was available first in my area before the TV. Some regulatory apporvals were needed. I signed up the day that both were available. The TV has some more choices. One notable channel that is not available in NY is MSNBC. Apparently Cablevision has some exclusive agreement becase FIOS carries the channel elsewhere in the country. Ah well... no more Hardball with Chris Mathews for me. Or the Kieth Oberman show whatever the name was... NFL Total access was a big surprise. NFL replay which they show during the week in the season is great way to watch an entire game in 30 minutes. You end up watching a lot of other teams games with that option. One big pain in the ass, as I think I mentioned elsewhere is that TV's with no box get about 15 channels or so and five of those are various PBS channels. MSNBC is no great loss to me, and I am surprised they haven't folded that channel yet and wrapped it into cnbc. The cool thing that i am looking forward to that i can't get now is the nfl network, and it is available in hd too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TaborJet Posted April 11, 2007 Share Posted April 11, 2007 Fios is faster, but I'm pleased with my connection. Thanks for the speedtest.net link Joebaby! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EM31 Posted April 11, 2007 Share Posted April 11, 2007 Fios is faster, but I'm pleased with my connection. Thanks for the speedtest.net link Joebaby! The major problem with the Cablevision service is that it is shared bandwidth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joebabyny Posted April 11, 2007 Author Share Posted April 11, 2007 Fios is faster, but I'm pleased with my connection. Thanks for the speedtest.net link Joebaby! No worries Tabor , and yeah, those numbers are pretty good too! This is my test at the office, we have our own t1 data line here. Gives me a global rank of 66 and a country rank of 58. It is a decent connection but not great, but I pay like 8-9 times more for this connection than for the fios at home. I will post those numbers later when I get home. The best part about fios is that i really think I am getting that bandwith in real world use, with the cable connections, everyone shares the same fiber in your neighborhood, so the more houses that hookup, the more people are on the internet, the slower it gets. EDIT---------- Here is my test with fios from home Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maxman Posted April 11, 2007 Share Posted April 11, 2007 Yeah, there definitely are countries that do offer much higher speeds, like Japan, but I have travelled to Asia and Europe and South America and overall it can vary greatly. Just did my test on speedtest.net here from the office where we have our own t1 dedicated to just us for data and there are 5 computers on the network and I rank faster than 66% of connections in the US and 58% of the world, compared to the test i used last night with fios which gave me 97% of the US and 98% of the world, and the fios connection is much cheaper. That remaining 2-3 percent is for the big datacenters with fiber coming in and the fios-type service in countries like Japan. I think in Japan a lot of people have something crazy like 100Mbps up and down, which is what you would get here if you paid hundreds of dollars for a dedicated server in a datacenter. Joe in the grand scheme of things a t1 isn't all that fast (as your test just showed). Let me know if you have any problems on the tv end. It isn't offered in my town yet (inner cities always suffer) but a coworker had a lot of problems with the TV side of things. Still I can't wait to have a much faster connection for porn. I mean the internet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joebabyny Posted April 11, 2007 Author Share Posted April 11, 2007 Joe in the grand scheme of things a t1 isn't all that fast (as your test just showed). Let me know if you have any problems on the tv end. It isn't offered in my town yet (inner cities always suffer) but a coworker had a lot of problems with the TV side of things. Still I can't wait to have a much faster connection for porn. I mean the internet. Right, it is pretty much old technology. The only really true benefit, and the reason businesses shell out the money for them, we pay 430.00 a month for our data t1/internet service, is reliability for mission critical service. My day job is for a fashion accessories distributor that has about 8,000 customers and lives off the internet with our site, email, and contact with customers. The service commitment from the telco's for t1's is WAYYYY different than the level of service commitment for dsl and cable lines, hours vs days, and that is big. Also, like was mentioned earlier, those cable connections are shared bandwidth, vs the true dedicated nature of a t1. These new technologies and connections are going to lead to some really great and interesting things. Of course porn will lead the way on pushing new technologies on the internet, like it has from day one. For all the talk about the negative aspects of that business, the one positive aspect that everyone benefits from with the industry is this innovation and adoption of these new technologies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maxman Posted April 12, 2007 Share Posted April 12, 2007 The internet has evolved slightly though. Originally only the porn guys were making money. Now it is the porn sites and some others. With this extra bandwidth you will hopefully start to see other internet appliances popping up. I want to have an RSS feed on my bathroom mirror. Read the news while you brush your teeth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joebabyny Posted April 12, 2007 Author Share Posted April 12, 2007 The internet has evolved slightly though. Originally only the porn guys were making money. Now it is the porn sites and some others. With this extra bandwidth you will hopefully start to see other internet appliances popping up. I want to have an RSS feed on my bathroom mirror. Read the news while you brush your teeth. Yeah, but if you remember back to 1995, there is a lot of improvements in the way people use it to interact, especially with the somewhat new social networking sites. The original topic of this thread, bandwidth, has really always been the problem with rolling out bigger and better applications, with these new technologies you will see the next big leap in content delivery and interactivity, and divergence of new consumer products tied to the internet. RSS feeds are prtty cool, although i have to admit as of now i don't really use them much myself. I am trying to think of ways to incorporate it into my projects though. Also, people are working on plugins for consumer devices like the apple tv that can use them. Currently you can view rss text feeds on your tv through it, but soon there will be video feeds as well. The uses for that could be pretty cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arsis Posted April 12, 2007 Share Posted April 12, 2007 95% global, 92% national. I think I'm good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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