Comments on: Verizon Boosts FiOS Speeds

By: fragzem

fragzem — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 18:25:20 +0000

I had Verizon FiOS installed the other day. Please see my blog for the report on installation of the triple play package, all the details, and the rundown.

-Fragzem

By: Switched at Install: A Verizon FiOS Horror Story - GigaOM

Switched at Install: A Verizon FiOS Horror Story - GigaOM — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 22:04:25 +0000

[...] (0) Somewhere outside of Seattle there’s a guy who’s very happy with his new Verizon FIOS service, but is not at all happy with the company providing it. Andru Edwards got a new FIOS [...]

By: Verizon ups its FiOS speeds to 50Mbps, sets the internet on fire : The Gadgets Show

Sat, 29 Dec 2007 02:30:09 +0000

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By: Tim Marman

Tim Marman — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 19:22:19 +0000

I’m in Brooklyn and still waiting for this to come to my neighborhood. Despite reports that apartments just blocks from my place have it, they say FIOS is not available and there’s no timeframe yet.

I’d prefer having an option period from Time Warner, and deal with the faster speeds later :)

By: It’s good, but is it good enough? (30 Mbps/15 Mbps Bandwidth) « Tom Altman’s Wedia Blog

Fri, 23 Nov 2007 14:15:37 +0000

[...] Posted on November 23, 2007 by tomaltman The GigaOm posted Tuesday (11/20/2007) that Verizon is boosting FiOS speeds. That is great - because broadband speeds in the US need boosting…take a look at this chart [...]

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| Verizon ups its FiOS speeds to 50Mbps, sets the World Wide Web on fire — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 21:55:35 +0000

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By: FIOS, not really « François Schiettecatte’s Blog

FIOS, not really « François Schiettecatte’s Blog — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 21:07:26 +0000

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By: Verizon ups its FiOS speeds to 50Mbps | Gadget Users

Verizon ups its FiOS speeds to 50Mbps | Gadget Users — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 16:05:40 +0000

[...] Verizon ups its FiOS speeds to 50Mbps November 21st, 2007 | Category: Gadget News Not subject matter with blazing up your local connection at 20Mbps downstream and up, Verizon has once again bumped its already-painfully-fast FiOS broadband service into the realm of ridiculous. According to reports, the company is now offering a 30Mbps / 15 Mbps service at $89.95 a month, and the nerve-shattering 50 Mbps / 20 Mbps speed at $139.95. The telecom has plus introduced symmetrical connections in all 16 states where it currently offers FiOS service, with a 20Mbps / 20Mbps on the up and down, starting at $64.99. Of course, it’s all bleeps and buzzes in our particularly lonely corner of Brooklyn, where we’ll have to suffer the indignation of a lowly 10Mbps connection until the big V blesses us with some real speed… you hearing us, dudes?[Via GigaOM] [...]

By: Brad Dickason

Brad Dickason — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:29:21 +0000

This reminds me of the old wait for Cable modems.

Interestingly enough, I live in one of the most densely populated areas of Manhattan and the service is not available to us. It seems to be hit or miss depending on what part of the city you go to.

Get your act together Verizon, all my friends in the financial district have huge connections and I'm jealous :(

By: Sean Dalton

Sean Dalton — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 14:23:16 +0000

I have been a FiOS customer for over a year (I live outside of Boston). While coordinating the install was just short of impossible, once working the services have been nearly flawless and, overall, a substantially better service than Comcast. Specifically:

PROGRAMMING
- The FiOS programming, HD, and reliability is significantly better. Previously, our Comcast service would regularly pixelate (very annoying). Previous to Comcast we tried DirectTV for a while, and while it worked OK overall, we balked at upgrading to a $1000 TIVO DVR receiver (that was about two years ago).
- The guide is somewhat annoying, but does the job.
- DVR is the same quality as Comcast, which is to say not nearly as good as TiVO. For example, it takes way too many clicks to program and/or play. It also seems to have too many “Bad Recording” (that is the error message), which I don’t ever recall happening with either my DirectTV Tivo or Comcast DVR.
- I’ve had to reset the STB a few times by “pulling the plug” but it came back each time (no different than my Comcast experience, if perhaps slightly more often).

HIGH SPEED INTERNET
- At least as reliable as Comcast (I think it has only been off-line 1-2 times in the past year).
- Better access gateway (4-port, 802.11g wireless device). Interestingly, the power supply died, but when we begged for someone to come out, they did and correctly diagnosed and fixed the problem. Never seen that before from a carrier.
- A little pricy relative to cable, but seems to deliver a higher performance (it’s faster than my enterprise network).

PHONE
- No problems yet.

COMPLAINTS
- Getting through to Verizon for any reason is impossible. I was lucky enough to find out a “local” number that has always answered my problems, but if you have to rely on the 800 number…..well, I hope you don’t have a day job or raise kids.
- Notwithstanding the above, the VZ employees that do show up are GREAT. I’m fairly technical (at least curious), and I’ve always been impressed. Not only do they stay and get the job done, they seem enthusiastic and genuinely nice people.

My $0.02.

By: CZ

CZ — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 14:22:20 +0000

Charbox and others who asked:
We pass 8.5 million homes with FiOS (on schedule to pass 18M by 2010)and have 1.3 Million FiOS internet subscribers (as of Oct 1).

More FiOS data points and links to pricing here:

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By: Verizon ups its FiOS speeds to 50Mbps, sets the internet on fire

Verizon ups its FiOS speeds to 50Mbps, sets the internet on fire — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 12:45:03 +0000

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Wed, 21 Nov 2007 09:37:10 +0000

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By: Raymond Padilla

Raymond Padilla — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 02:02:21 +0000

Ugh. I dream of FiOS. I’m on Comcast Cable, which is fine and certainly better than AT&T’s crap, but FiOS would own me in a heartbeat.

By: Michael Buckbee

Michael Buckbee — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 00:44:20 +0000

I live in Virginia and currently have the Verizon FIOS service, the big caveat to all these services is that most websites, downloading, etc. you are going to be doing isn't serving information fast enough to keep up with the bandwidth cap.

That being said it has been MUCH more stable and in general faster than COX Cable which is the other predominant high speed access solution in the area.

However, I had significant problems signing up for the service (not installation, which was great, but took about 6 hours), but just finding the right person to talk to within Verizon that I could give my information to to signup. But, once you get through that it's not too bad.

Mike