Will Verizon Offer Symmetrical FiOS? > verizon just hears what they want to hear.

verizon just hears what they want to hear.

Of course you know that since you have access to all of their customer records and comments. This is just more nerd talk/bashing because you can't see why people would use the internet differently than you do.

Most people don't care about symetrical speeds regardless of who their provider is. You think the average soccer mom or dad makes their decision based on that? If they did more people would leave their current provider for FIOS because the upload is faster than what you can get for most other providers.

Some of you are to "geeked" out and are out of touch with the mainstream. My girlfriend noticed the difference in the upload speed that we from DSL and was excited about it because like MOST people, she's no techo-nerd. Most of the time we're surfing or downloading other things while uploading. This isn't as big of an issue as BBR or the users here make it out to be.

reply to inteller

yep. I was shocked to find several friends that got Fios and they had no idea the bandwidth they could have. They just liked the bundle of Phone, TV and Internet.

Meanwhile, I'm pressing to get my 15/2 upped to 30/5...for same rate.

I need bandwidth (foaming at mouth)!!! Gimmeee!!

reply to inteller
with FIOS offer at least 1mb up (i think) which is the most charter offers on their best service I would be fine with that! I thought their cheapest option was 5mb/2mb. or 10mb/2mb. I work from home at times, upload videos/pics for family events, expiriment with other techs, run my security system and phone over IP, and would consider myself a power user.

reply to openbox9
It's a small minority in any scheme of things. Infinitesimal. Puny. Without weight. A mere dust speck on the plains of consumer broadband.

All "active users" here (and that's rrrreeeeaaaaaalllllyyyy stretching it) wouldn't amount to one small ISP's worth of customers.
--
Toolmaster of La Grange.