Verizon To Boost FIOS Speeds
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New York (NY) - Verizon will be significantly boosting its FIOS fiber optic speeds in the coming months. Ten states will have their speeds increased to 50 megabits/sec. download and 20 megabits/sec. for uploads at a subscription rate of $139.95 per month (ouch). The previous top speeds in those states were 30 Mbps/15 Mbps.
Existing customers will need to ask Verizon for the upgraded lines. The ten states are California, Delaware, Indiana, Maryland, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia and Washington. The company also mentioned that it will introduce a 20mbps/20mbps FiOS package as well.
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The ONLY ad where Verizon makes those claims are for FIOS, whereas Optimum is either delusional or comparing their upload speeds to DSL, because FIOS is far superior to any of their offerings in upload speed. Nice work, Dolans. You ruined the Knicks and are now blatantly trying to sneak one by casual internet users. What a company.
So yeah... moving on.
FIOS is still not widely available in this area and this is one of the areas they chose to start the initial development. Really lame. I can't say I really need a faster down speed than what my cable connection offers(10Mbps), but their upload is pitiful at only 800Kbps. 15Mb/2Mb sure sounds nice(That is their old advertised speed for the mainstream package but that would be nice to have even now)...
The $10 to double your down and x2.5 you up is worth it in comparison to FiOS. Match up all the packages Verison offers to Optimum. Boost takes a dump on them when you measure speed per $.
And are you SERIOUSLY saying that video games need more than that? Go do some research adolescent. Unless you are torrenting too much pr0n while you're playing halo, you'll be fine.
Simple, I'm just wondering how Cablevision will attempt to spin this one when this expanded FIOS service comes to NY/NJ/CT.
Except "Boost" being cable internet technology isnt quite the 2x down/2.5x up you make it out to be. There are benefits to having your own fiber line to your house.
BTW, I have Optimum for my apartment and am pretty happy with the basic 15/2 service for $49/mo, but it just bothers me when commercials blatantly lie like that.
Why does verizon keep making fios faster for the 2% of people who have it instead of expanding the network to include more then just 4 houses?