| reply to yup yup
Re: Desperation? I don't think you understand what is meant by "Internet bandwidth."
Verizon just can't magically make Internet bandwidth by running fiber. Their Internet bandwidth has nothing to do with FIOS installs.
Verizon must peer with major providers, they must keep these external circuits big enough to support the users behind them. The Internet doesn't just magically come to them, they have a backbone that must be maintained that has nothing to do with FIOS specifically.
And FIOS is not a dedicated fiber line, you're not connected directly to the Internet with all bandwidth dedicated to you. It's a 622mbit circuit that is shared between 32 homes they say. Reasonable, but NOT dedicated.
I'd love to see a Verizon tech come to my house and fix a drop in available bandwidth FROM my house, that would be a sight to see.
Encryption and compression have NOTHING to do with maintaining speeds. Encryption and compression require TIME and COMPUTING power to DECRYPT and UNCOMPRESS the data. How exactly would that keep speeds up? No major provider encrypts and compresses customer traffic, unless someone is paying for that special service. But most do it for themselves, out of security concerns. |
