said by deepblackmag :

Stop complaining, this is the first company to make this giant leap toward coming into phase with the rest of the modern world. Although they arent quite there yet. That price will need to drop to about 30$ a month to match foreign offerings.

said by roady1 :

just give me a couple static addys.

said by knightmb :

I'm not complaining, I'm actually glad. Just seems to be a bit of marketing hype on the 50 Mbps. Unless I'm downloading from Google or Microsoft, I don't think any website would be able to match that speed just because it's too expensive to have an upload connection that fast.

They really don't need to hype up fiber, we all know it's fast. To me it's no different than going sports car shopping and the saleman telling me their car is so fast I can get a speeding ticket in it.

said by deepblackmag :

Thats wrong. so wrong.
Go check out dedicated server pricing at most places.
100mbps with 1 or 2TB/month caps. usually around or under 100$. Most servers can handle it, i get compliments all the time from FIOS users who download an ISO from my ftp stating how nice it is to use their full downstream. Most people with their own server dont cap speeds in per mbps.

said by deepblackmag :

Stop complaining, this is the first company to make this giant leap toward coming into phase with the rest of the modern world. Although they arent quite there yet. That price will need to drop to about 30$ a month to match foreign offerings.

said by Devistater :

Example:
»news.com.com/2100-1034_3-999695.html
South Korea has 40 mbit for $32 a month.

»www.designnine.com/news/?q=node/726
100 mbit service availible for $45 a month sweden.

You can google for more.

WTF would CLEC and USA ISP's say things like that? I'm thinking you took his comment as "sabotage" against verizon. It's not against verizon, its against the USA state of broadband in general.

This is fact. There are a number of other countries FAR ahead of the USA in fast broadband at a reasonable cost, and with a far higher percentage of their country wired up.

EVEN if you restrict yourself to just major cities (to ignore all the people out in boonies), most of the cities dont have verizon FIOS or even anything similar for a decent price/availibility.

There's many reasons why we are behind other countries in internet access (even if you restrict yourself to major cities, so you dont have to count as a reason that people are more spread out in USA).
Here's one example:
»www.muniwireless.com/community/1023

said by Devistater :

A quick google for: dedicated server 100mbit

»www.crucialp.com/dedicated-servers/
+ 1000GB Bandwidth
+ 100Mbit Uplink
+ 8 IPs (5 Usable)
+ $109/month

»dedicated-server.hivelocity.net/···rver.asp
Similar for $100 a month

I'm sure you can locate more with google. I have not checked any or any details, and I'm not up on server or pricing or BW for any of that, I just figured a quick google would find links you asked for, and it did.

said by God :

but yeah i wish i could get speeds like that, in this shithole of a german base all i can get is 400/90.

said by fiberguy :

Oh, stop... you are bringing me back to the early 2000's... that just brings me way back!