1 edit | Fiber Is Costly in General Well writing from Canada, I would have to say that FIOS or any fiber to the home is a dream like the other person said here.
Where I am at, there is no way to get even a cable or DSL solution. Too far from the CO for DSL service, no coax out here for cable. I am on a wireless platform. Yes plain old wireless.
I get a symmetrical 3mbps connection right now, and pay close to $70.00 a month for it. I will say this. I previously had 18/1 cable and I actually like a symmetrical connection better. Sure I get less download, but really if I need to download a ISO or a backup off one of my dedicated boxes, i'll just let it run overnight, wake up in the morning and have what I need.
As for fiber and high connectivity. I will say allowing someone to use infinite bandwidth on a 20/20 connection is insane. Considering that I have to pay metered bandwidth costs, I pay for every gigabyte that goes through my servers. I am with 3 colo centers, and the average is about the same. Take one of my servers. This is a capped 20mbps port, and I usually max it out about 6 hours or so a day at the full 20mbps.
My bandwidth for September on only one box, reads the following.
Out: Max: 20.85mbps Average: 8.40mbps Total Transfer: 2.72 TB
In: Max 1.04mbps Average: 440.37kbps Total Transfer: 142.68GB
So lets say at the price I pay for bandwidth at a datacenter $0.10 a GB or so..... It would cost Verizon $286.26 to provide you with your $60.00 connection. Certainly I would believe that it costs them more to provide that service to your home, since they need billing people, CSR's etc etc and alot more than a datacenter would.
Imagine if there was a torrent seeder or someone else going at 20mbps all of the time! I only go at 20mbps full tilt about 25-30 hours a week, imagine 24/7!
I think this speed is great, not for residential use, for business only since this can definitely benefit business, and they should have it priced at $299.95 respectively, with 5 static IP's.
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