| how much for similar fios? 369????????????? WTF. |
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| FiOS doesn't offer anything comparable. They just haven't bothered to. |
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 aaronwtPremium
join:2004-11-07
Woodbridge, VA
 ·Verizon FiOS
1 edit | reply to chemaupr
That's really cheap. We pay ,much more than that at work for only two T1 lines. And a T1 line is only 1.5mbs.
Comcast is offering 66X the speed of a T1 for download and 10x the speed of a T1 for upload.
$370 a month is a bargain compared to what a couple of T1 lines costs. |
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| That is cheap. We pay $900 for 10 meg. But what will the service/support be like? |
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 BF69Premium
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN | reply to chemaupr
About the same price Hughesnet charges for 5 Mbps/300 kbps with a 500 MB daily cap. |
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 danclan
join:2005-11-01
Midlothian, VA | reply to fifty nine
said by fifty nine:FiOS doesn't offer anything comparable. They just haven't bothered to. And have no real need as with their 50/20 plan you can probably get just as good a connection if not better and 100% more upstream traffic to help better service your clients....or yourself since its available to businesses and consumers alike for under 150 a month. |
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 Killa200Premium
join:2005-12-02
Southeast TN | reply to aaronwt
said by aaronwt:That's really cheap. We pay ,much more than that at work for only two T1 lines. And a T1 line is only 1.5mbs. Comcast is offering 66X the speed of a T1 for download and 10x the speed of a T1 for upload. $370 a month is a bargain compared to what a couple of T1 lines costs. Its only "highly competitively priced when compared to typical business class T1 lines, many of which sell for hundreds of dollars per month and do not include the comprehensive software" if it includes the same SLA as a T1 does.... |
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rebus9
join:2002-03-26
Tampa Bay Reviews:
 ·RoadRunner Cable
·Verizon FiOS
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said by danclan:said by fifty nine:FiOS doesn't offer anything comparable. They just haven't bothered to. And have no real need as with their 50/20 plan you can probably get just as good a connection if not better and 100% more upstream traffic to help better service your clients....or yourself since its available to businesses and consumers alike for under 150 a month. My day-job connection is multiple Gig-E to 4 carriers, and my management workstation plugs directly into that core. Believe me when I say there really isn't much practical use for anything faster than 10-20 mbps unless you're a serious downloader and have multiple download threads running simultaneously where you can actually max out a 50+ mbps connection.
My downloads from Microsoft, HP, Sun, etc., don't run much faster than ~25 mbps. Browsing websites does not feel any faster on a 100 mbps pipe than it does at home on FIOS at 25 mbps. (although there IS a noticeable difference between my FIOS and 7 mbps Road Runner). And watching YouTube doesn't require more than 3-5 mbps, or a tad faster if you don't want the occasional buffering pauses.
100 mbps to the home would be great bragging rights, but a total waste of money unless you have an insatiable download appetite. |
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 IPPlanManHoly Cable Modem Batman
join:2000-09-20
Washington, DC
kudos:1 | With a small enough cap, the speed doesn't matter anyway. |
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| said by IPPlanMan:With a small enough cap, the speed doesn't matter anyway. Truth ! |
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said by aaronwt:That's really cheap. We pay ,much more than that at work for only two T1 lines. And a T1 line is only 1.5mbs. Comcast is offering 66X the speed of a T1 for download and 10x the speed of a T1 for upload. $370 a month is a bargain compared to what a couple of T1 lines costs. Except the T1's do not have any caps and you can actually USE the bandwidth you PAY for. That is a revolutionary concept right there. |
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iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
kudos:2 | reply to fifty nine
$5 says Verizon turns on 100 Mbps down FiOS (probably 25-35 Mbps up) by the end of the year to compete with this. |
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iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
kudos:2 | reply to rebus9
Tell that to the Cablevision folks.
Though they probably mainly got the tier for the upload speed. |
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bn1221
join:2009-04-29
Cortland, NY | reply to danclan
Since when do they do FiOS for business? Everything I call they say they are doing it for home users only. It might be due to them not meeting an SLA but fiber is really, really reliable. |
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rebus9
join:2002-03-26
Tampa Bay Reviews:
·RoadRunner Cable
·Verizon FiOS
| said by bn1221:Since when do they do FiOS for business? Everything I call they say they are doing it for home users only. It might be due to them not meeting an SLA but fiber is really, really reliable. Mine is a Business FIOS connection at home. It definitely exists, and in fact, it's the only way you can get a static IP.
»www22.verizon.com/content/businessfios |
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bn1221
join:2009-04-29
Cortland, NY | reply to WernerSchutz
Except the T1's do not have any caps and you can actually USE the bandwidth you PAY for. That is a revolutionary concept right there.
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A T1 does in fact have a cap. you get roughly 1 GB every 2 hours. 84GB a week and around 300ish a month. Almost rather than 5/15 with Comcast even with a 250GB cap. Less waiting. Around the same throughput. |
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iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
kudos:2 | reply to IPPlanMan
No 250GB cap on business. |
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IPPlanManHoly Cable Modem Batman
join:2000-09-20
Washington, DC
kudos:1 | said by iansltx:No 250GB cap on business. And why do you suppose that is? Maybe because businesses aren't downloading movies off of iTunes/vudu/Netflix. |
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Worthless is what the service will be. They can't get their regular HSI biz lines working right.
I for one will never recommend Comcast to anyone unless you want headaches and no support. Dedicated lines are what most businesses need. |
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said by bn1221:Except the T1's do not have any caps and you can actually USE the bandwidth you PAY for. That is a revolutionary concept right there. +++ A T1 does in fact have a cap. you get roughly 1 GB every 2 hours. 84GB a week and around 300ish a month. Almost rather than 5/15 with Comcast even with a 250GB cap. Less waiting. Around the same throughput. That is a physical limitation of the connection you pay for, not a arbitrary imposed cap. The 6 Mbit CC connection has a theoretical monthly throughput of about 1.8 TB. Imposing a 250 GB cap is an arbitrary limit. |
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