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Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 4:16 pm
by Digger[NJLP]
Yooo! Sweet! I've been very happy thus far! I'm making the move to Verizon FIOS TV in the next week or two..
Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 12:11 pm
by Digger[NJLP]
FYI.
Just signed up with Verizon for their all digital TV offering which wraps the whole thing in to one bill. Phone/TV/Internet for 95 a month. I added the DVR and the movie package for a total cost of 125 a month. Best part is they have to upgrade my fiber at no additional cost. So I'm going from 3 MBits up stream to 5 MBits, and the downstream is going up from 10 to 20.
FIOS Test w FIOS TV
Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 7:21 pm
by Digger[NJLP]
Well it seems that the FIOS TV service from Verizon, when in use, is using a solid 6.5 Mbits of the pipe. The pipe is set at 20 Mbits down and I tested it at speakeasy.net, to the NY server and got a 13.5 Mbps result. This was while it was on and tuned to a HD channel. To test a little more I started steaming an MP3 from MP3.com and the report dropped my bandwidth to 8.3. My up was solid at 5 Mbits the whole time.
Its pretty sweet.
Oh and yes the coaxial cable for the TV service comes off of the provided Firewall/DSL/Router. I was planning on using my own fireawall but they need the provided router to bring in cable. The router itself is massively configurable so be careful.
Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 5:50 pm
by Shogg
=P optimum online with boost package > FIOS
I get 30 mb down 5 mb up for 45$ a month :]
Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 11:55 am
by Digger[NJLP]
Shogg wrote:=P optimum online with boost package > FIOS
I get 30 mb down 5 mb up for 45$ a month :]
Nice deal, but what we need to get all of them to do is open up the upstream. 5 MBits is great, but when you host a server and your wife is streaming video, chatting, and sharing MP3's, 5 Mbit its not enough.