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Gbps, not GBps. IOW Gigabit ethernet crossover'd to fiber to the home. Needless to say, sick.

Verizon could do this with FiOS...if they were willing to oversell like the cable companies do lol.

Verizon is already overselling, just not the last mile (yet).

reply to iansltx
Obviously Verizon is overselling bandwidth.

Or do you somehow believe that they have enough bandwidth to the Internet for all of their business line, DSL, and FIOS customers combined for each of them to have their full speed at all times?

All ISPs/NSPs/Hosting providers have always oversold. If there are any that didn't, they are out of business.

Honestly, I don't care about overselling as long as I get the bandwidth I want when I want it. When capacity is high (gigabits per second) then it's very easy to oversell without anyone getting annoyed at the result.

I'm on Cable and I don't have any peak congestion problems at all.

Probably helps that my node doesn't really have that many people.

Probably helps. I don't have many, if any, peak congestion issues here either, however there are plenty of places who do, especially as you go up in the number of uses your node is shared with, particularly on DOCSIS 3.

I'm on D3 and my speeds are pretty consistent. Almost always get 27-29mbps down and 1700-1900 up at speedtest.net.

OTOH you could get those speeds with DOCSIS 2. And you're not on a crowded node. And that's less than 1/3 of the capacity of DOCSIS 3. Plus you've got caps. So I'd say PenTeleData is playing it safe. Which is fine...I suppose...