Verizon hits near 1Gbps speeds over existing FiOS network

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1. August 17, 2010 1:54 PM
   

   princeton said:

   Man our fastest here is rogers ultimate. $100 a month for 50mbps download and TWO mbps upload. So in the US the extra $45 bucks gets you 10 times faster upload than us. I know bell here has 7mbps upload but their download caps at 25mbps. It's a loss with either. And we have no other isps here in ontario afaik. Bell and rogers control our entire market.

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2. August 17, 2010 3:27 PM
   RuskiSnajper said:

   OMGWTFBBQ !?!?!?!

   in my country far far away , FTTH Costs:

   10/10 Mbps costs 19EUR or 24$ ,

   20/20 costs 28EUR or 36$

   100/10 costs about 25EUR or 32.2$

   50/50 costs 39EUR or 50$

   100/100 costs 49 EUR 63,1$

   200/200 costs 200 EUR or 257$

   300/300 costs 300 EUR or 386$

   500/500 costs 500EUR or 644$

   1 Gbps costs 1000EUR or 1288$

   And this is one company with it's temporary high prices because the company treats users good and ramps up everything it was close to going bankrupt so it had to make higher prices a bit so it was even more cheaper (about 90% of cities don't have FTTH yet so that's why userbase is limited) when the company originally launched FTTH in 2008 , the price for 10/10 was 14 EUR or 18$ , i don't remember the rest of the scheme.

   used to these kind of prices lol , only 10 big corporations are in charge of the whole usa, pity, I do really feel sorry for you guys kind of.

   And by the way "3DTV, ultra HDTV, multiplayer gaming and HD video conferencing." this is really nothing special.

   Oh lol , blame my habbits , FIOS is a packet boundle of telephony internet and tv , of course the price all in one but boundels cost here like 33 Eur or 60Eur (80$ max) max if you choose to have all channels available and HD and adult and other... and ofcourse the internet speed , my experience is long , boundles come in a little cheaper but boundels SUCKS most of the time because you either can't edit the contents specifications or lots of interference and interruption because they channel you're house with everything through single server, if something's wrong you lost ALL 3 services.

   For example here's the avreage 33EUR boundle (42$)

   FTTH 10/10

   IP TV plug with HDTV decoder and Channel Scheme S (small = 40 local-only programs)

   10GB space for private recorder

   Home phone plug with IP phone or basic ISDN plug without phone

   SIM connected for calling and 50MB of data throught UMTS

   If you're demanding (will be enough for premiums and gamers):

   20/20 FTTH (unlimited 24/7)

   3 HDTV plugs(3TVs possible) and all 180 Channels(contains 4 free HD channels) with 5 additional HD channels(add. costs about 10$) , adult and HBO optional (will increase the price)

   2 home phone numbers (unlimited talking)

   2 SIM for cell phone (unlimited talking)

   For 75Eur or 96,6$ ,

   Well i can't wait FTTH , over broadband is much costlier , charging for each tv really sucks, and i wiht 5 TVs in the house damn.

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3. August 17, 2010 3:58 PM
   

   princeton said:

   RuskiSnajper said:

   OMGWTFBBQ !?!?!?!

   in my country far far away , FTTH Costs:

   10/10 Mbps costs 19EUR or 24$ ,

   20/20 costs 28EUR or 36$

   100/10 costs about 25EUR or 32.2$

   50/50 costs 39EUR or 50$

   100/100 costs 49 EUR 63,1$

   200/200 costs 200 EUR or 257$

   300/300 costs 300 EUR or 386$

   500/500 costs 500EUR or 644$

   1 Gbps costs 1000EUR or 1288$

   And this is one company with it's temporary high prices because the company treats users good and ramps up everything it was close to going bankrupt so it had to make higher prices a bit so it was even more cheaper (about 90% of cities don't have FTTH yet so that's why userbase is limited) when the company originally launched FTTH in 2008 , the price for 10/10 was 14 EUR or 18$ , i don't remember the rest of the scheme.

   used to these kind of prices lol , only 10 big corporations are in charge of the whole usa, pity, I do really feel sorry for you guys kind of.

   And by the way "3DTV, ultra HDTV, multiplayer gaming and HD video conferencing." this is really nothing special.

   Oh lol , blame my habbits , FIOS is a packet boundle of telephony internet and tv , of course the price all in one but boundels cost here like 33 Eur or 60Eur (80$ max) max if you choose to have all channels available and HD and adult and other... and ofcourse the internet speed , my experience is long , boundles come in a little cheaper but boundels SUCKS most of the time because you either can't edit the contents specifications or lots of interference and interruption because they channel you're house with everything through single server, if something's wrong you lost ALL 3 services.

   For example here's the avreage 33EUR boundle (42$)

   FTTH 10/10

   IP TV plug with HDTV decoder and Channel Scheme S (small = 40 local-only programs)

   10GB space for private recorder

   Home phone plug with IP phone or basic ISDN plug without phone

   SIM connected for calling and 50MB of data throught UMTS

   If you're demanding (will be enough for premiums and gamers):

   20/20 FTTH (unlimited 24/7)

   3 HDTV plugs(3TVs possible) and all 180 Channels(contains 4 free HD channels) with 5 additional HD channels(add. costs about 10$) , adult and HBO optional (will increase the price)

   2 home phone numbers (unlimited talking)

   2 SIM for cell phone (unlimited talking)

   For 75Eur or 96,6$ ,

   Well i can't wait FTTH , over broadband is much costlier , charging for each tv really sucks, and i wiht 5 TVs in the house damn.

   10/10 Mbps costs 19EUR or 24$. What the ****!!! Here that'll get you 512kbps down and 128kbps up.

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4. August 17, 2010 4:03 PM
   RuskiSnajper said:

   Really sorry to hear that , you might be living away from major city and the signal is weaker ?

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5. August 17, 2010 4:10 PM
   

   princeton said:

   RuskiSnajper said:

   Really sorry to hear that , you might be living away from major city and the signal is weaker ?

   I live right in kitchener. This is all over ontario. I've looked in almost every major city here and it's all the same.

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6. August 17, 2010 4:56 PM
   Guest said:

   I pay about 20 USD/16 EUR for my 100/10Mbps here in Denmark.

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7. August 17, 2010 6:20 PM
   Guest said:

   So the big ISPs are focusing on getting faster speeds to the people that already have fast connections....

   Nice.

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8. August 17, 2010 6:43 PM
   

   princeton said:

   Guest said:

   So the big ISPs are focusing on getting faster speeds to the people that already have fast connections....

   Nice.

   Seriously. That guy above gets 100/10 for the price i pay for 512/128kbps. This is ******* bullshit. I hope the FCC has some influence on what canada does. This is driving me ******* crazy.

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9. August 17, 2010 6:43 PM
   Guest said:

   To the guy in kitchener i'm in mississauga. You cannot compare what some of those small european countries have for internet to Canada and the US. We have much bigger land mass with users spread out all over. The infastructure is totally different, no doubt we still are getting screwed for internet but you can't make a direct comparison without looking at the other factors!

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10. August 17, 2010 8:45 PM
    

    princeton said:

    Guest said:

    To the guy in kitchener i'm in mississauga. You cannot compare what some of those small european countries have for internet to Canada and the US. We have much bigger land mass with users spread out all over. The infastructure is totally different, no doubt we still are getting screwed for internet but you can't make a direct comparison without looking at the other factors!

    I AM MOVING TO EUROPE!

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11. August 17, 2010 10:11 PM
    insect said:

    The article is in-accurate or I'm super special. I'm a FIOS customer in Maryland and I get 35 down/35 up for $80/month.

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12. August 18, 2010 2:40 AM
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    Per Hansson, TS Server Guru, said:

    Well should not pretty much all optical fibre connections be able to support higher speed if built properly?

    I'm on a 100/100Mbps fibre conenction here in Sweden at £30 or $45 per month, with no download caps...

    But still I'd imagine it would just be a matter of exchanging the switching gear to get it up to a higher speed, I mean even Cat6 copper supports speeds up to 10GBPS as of 2006... (10GBASE-T, or IEEE 802.3an-2006)

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13. August 18, 2010 9:41 AM
    

    princeton said:

    insect said:

    The article is in-accurate or I'm super special. I'm a FIOS customer in Maryland and I get 35 down/35 up for $80/month.

    This article never stated anything about the prices of speeds. A commenter did.

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14. August 18, 2010 9:51 AM
    madboyv1, TechSpot Paladin, said:

    princeton said:

    This article never stated anything about the prices of speeds. A commenter did.

    Except... in the last line of the article...

    The current offering will cost you $145 per month and tops at 50Mbps for downloads and 20Mbps for uploads.

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15. August 18, 2010 3:06 PM
    RuskiSnajper said:

    Yep , im in the one of the smalles countries in europe

    Third(3.) on european scale , or seventh(7.) on worldwide.

    [link]

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16. August 25, 2010 12:14 PM
    Guest said:

    i am from Nepal.

    I live in Kathmandu(capital city of Nepal). I am paying US$17.14 for 15KBPS download speed and 6KBPS upload speed. If you don't believe check http://speedtest.net/ result for nepal....its tooooo slow.

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