“Dude, if you don’t know that there is still a huge difference in the actual bandwidth you get from cable vs. dsl than there is no hope for you. And all down speeds aren’t labled as up to, it depends on your service agreement and the type of account. Please get a clue first, remove “stupid” sign from neck second, and remove foot from mouth.”

Wow, that’s quite hostile – although I’m pretty sure that you completely have no idea what TheFlamingKing meant – I think they mean that any ISP can’t guarantee a constant speed for downloads or uploads – so they just use the words “up to” so that they aren’t mis-advertising their service. Network speed is affected by many factors – and the farther your machine is from a source or target for data transmission, the more factors their are in determining network performance. A computer sending a query to a Google server will have a number of hops between it and the server. Each “hop” represents a piece of network equipment like a repeater, switch, router, server (proxy or otherwise), etc. All of the network equipment (including the wiring) along the data pathway contributes to the overall performance of the connection. Lets say a one of the switches in between you and your music download somehow got a chunk ‘O dust in the ball bearing well of one of its posterior cooling fans. The cooling fan loses 2% of its speed due to friction, which adds a negligible amount of heat to one of the internal boards. that tiny amount of heat makes the processor work just a wee bit harder, which in turn slightly slows down the processing and transmission of a series of random packets, a number of those which, unfortunately are directed, eventually to your ISP > modem > router > PC. The only thing you’ll see (if your even looking, that is) is that your download speed (depending on what it is) would drop from, lets say 15.27 MB/s to 14.97 MB/s for a period of about 3 seconds, if even that. Then that number would jump to something higher or lower at the next refresh of depending on the current status of the Network-Path (It could be anything from the micro-dust bunny flying out of the bearing well and collecting onto the back of the switch or a stupid bird flying in front of one of the microwave transmitters on a Telecommunication dish and causing a huge – although spread out – lag by forcing the re-transmission of a few TB of data). Furthermore, show me an ISP that doesn’t add “up to” to the beginning to it’s maximum bandwidth advertisement, and I’ll show you a frivolous lawsuit waiting to happen…

“Do you honestly believe that all 56k service gets 56 kbps every second? Or that 1.5M service constantly gets 1500 kbps?”

I’m pretty sure the Apple is for suckers made it very clear that he DIDN’T believe that customers always get the advertised service rate in his first sentence.

Dude, if you don’t know that there is still a huge difference in the actual bandwidth you get from cable vs. dsl than there is no hope for you. And all down speeds aren’t labled as up to, it depends on your service agreement and the type of account. Please get a clue first, remove “stupid” sign from neck second, and remove foot from mouth.

Do you honestly believe that all 56k service gets 56 kbps every second? Or that 1.5M service constantly gets 1500 kbps?

All download speeds are labeled with the same “Up to” theoretical limits, but actual speeds may vary due to network issues. Check the fine print. It’s not a slam on Verizon or any other provider, it’s just the way it works.

but I have to say 30/2 is a HUGE increase over 15/2. I have an Xbox 360, a gaming PC, we have 2 laptops, an 802.11G wifi network, and a duel tuner HD cable box, and I have to say I cannot imagine going back to that 15 a second download with all this equipment.

I can download entire xbox live game demos within minutes, and my websites load as fast as the servers respond.

The only advantage of fios is the fact that the line is So clear, no cable noise or digital artifacts that I sometimes see, but oh well were still the fastest in the country.

Been poring over the press release and it looks like 50/10 is a “business offer” with a best price of $350/month but 50/5 is a “residential” offer at the $90 you quoted.

This is a partial answer to your reader who was aking about TOS limitations.

Think that you’re right on that this is competition for real. Wish we had it here in Vermont.

Speed like this will enable HD video downloads once the DRM issues are ironed out. Of course it will also enable Napster-like sharing of video (like in the “bad” old days).

Broadband speeds have always lead applications. People used to ask what you’d really do with a 128k ISDN line. Seems silly now…