| | Verizon: Cheapskates The network will handle anything they want to throw at it, but they have no interest in having a product significantly better than what cable companies are offering.
Outside of upload speeds, they've sacrificed every advantage they had. The download speeds of Comcast and Cox have caught up. And very few people really value high upload speeds, and those have caught up too, at least at Comcast.
With the Quantum speed increases (and price increases), I don't know why they didn't keep upload symmetrical to download.
When it comes to TV offerings, they've maxed out their HD channels, and they're falling behind the other providers there too. Their only advantage left is premium movie channels, and that's really only against Comcast who seems to hate them.
FiOS increasingly looks like a flash in the pan, even starting with so much promise. Verizon's plan is little different than what Frontier is doing in the divested markets, keep things the same, increase prices, and get whatever cash you can from it instead of really marketing something better. | |
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 | | | Re: Verizon: Cheapskates No caps on TWC and Cablevision. That's only a problem with Comcast and Cox, and it's questionable whether Cox really enforces theirs. | |
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| | | | Re: Verizon: Cheapskates True enough, but I live in Comcast territory and I've had cablevision before, the comments about pings and peak slowdowns still apply. | |
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| said by MovieLover76:Verizon FiOS is better than cable in a couple of ways
Lower pings, No peak time slowdowns and no data caps.
Those set it apart for me and keep me on FiOS
Ha! You're right about the data cap part but that's about it. Look at the half dozen or so threads about terrible latency and packet loss occurring nightly. FIOS is not that great in comparison to 2008. | |
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| | brad
join:2007-09-06
Etobicoke, ON | Re: Verizon: Cheapskates said by serge87:Ha! You're right about the data cap part but that's about it. Look at the half dozen or so threads about terrible latency and packet loss occurring nightly. FIOS is not that great in comparison to 2008.
Under ideal conditions FiOS is definitely better than cable for latency. But both can run into issues depending on how the network is maintained. MSOs have tons of threads about high latency and packet loss with nodes that are not upgraded or haven't been split appropriately. Cable is not that great in comparison to 2013. Here is hoping for DOCSIS 3.1. | |
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 dvd536as Mr. Pink as they comePremium
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Phoenix, AZ
kudos:4 | said by osravens:With the Quantum speed increases (and price increases), I don't know why they didn't keep upload symmetrical to download.
They don't want to bastardize their LUCRATIVE biz packages.
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1 edit | Yep in my county they want to stick neck and neck with cable. I have been on BPON since 2005, and no interests to upgrade here. Comcast is sticking at 50Mbps so Verizon is trying to do the same, and only providing 75/35 if the customers have a 612 ONT that will handle the 35Mbps uploads. | |
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