What type of Internet connection do you have?

[carlosponti]

cable at home and t1 at work.

[oz]

What... no FIOS users, yet?

I've been kind of curious to ask someone how that's working out.

[Thrillhouse]

What... no FIOS users, yet?

I've been kind of curious to ask someone how that's working out.

Woot! First FIOS user!

We were practically forced to move to FIOS after Verizon started installing the fiber-optic lines in our neighborhood. It caused such bad interference (for TV reception) with the Comcast cable we had that we finally put our name on the list and, lo and behold, 3 months later we had FIOS.

As far as the service goes, to be honest, I really can't tell a huge difference between the Comcast cable connection we had and FIOS. While large downloads sometimes peek at speeds much higher than the cable connection we had, they're sporadic and will tend to bottom out at very low speeds. The cable connection we had seemed to be more reliable.

The other thing is, and I know it doesn't have to do with the Internet connection, but Verizon re-assigns their TV channels all...the...time. It's very frustrating once you've finally remembered which channel numbers to jump to, to have them rearranged on you again. It's not like they're improving the scheme either; there are 40 and 50 empty-channel gaps between each group. There seems to be no method to their madness.

[daark.child]

I'd love to get speeds like that but it's not likely to happen around here for a while. My local DSL provider only offers 10Mbps, and the local cable company only offers about 3Mbps. I'm always looking for something faster, though.

In a few months time they are upgrading it to 50Mbps for the same price and no download limits although they throttle the connection at busy periods. Are you in the US? I hear that in the US, the broadband speeds are not up to par with most developed countries.

[questio verum]

Cable. Pretty much been with cable for the last ten years. Right now it's Comcast at about 50 bucks/mo after all the fees and taxes are tacked on. They tell us it's 6mbps download speed, but I don't buy that for one minute.

I hear that in the US, the broadband speeds are not up to par with most developed countries.

Yeah... I'm afraid you heard right. Overload the hubs & switches, oversell the service, don't invest in infrastructure, fight any regulatory legislation, throttle bandwidth & impose transfer caps, and do your best to kill off p2p. Mmm.. yeah, that pretty much describes the present system. Oh, and I'm beginning to hear the first rumblings of a new procedure being tested which ferrets out home networks and disallows dns resolution and tcp connections for all but one computer. It probably wont last though. A workaround has already been sorted out by savvy linux users, and it's only a matter of time before someone writes a script for windows that does the same thing. Still... the fact that they're trying it lets you know where their intentions lie.