What's your home Internet speed?

[rgr555]

I wrote that kinda wrong. I really meant why is Verizon even offering fiber service that slow. Besides bilking money out of people to upgrade tiers , there is little reason why. Fiber has practically an infinte amount of bandwidth, so they could easily up the speeds for everyone. For example, they could start service off at around 100mbps, and go up to say 1gbps, instead of offering 5mbps or whatever as the first tier. As sonic.net showed in california by offering 1gbps for $69, it would be easy to do.

infinite bandwidth? how is that so? i really dont think that's true?

the infrastructure seems scattered with Fios which may have some effect. its not like Japan and South Korea

 

[insimbi]

 

[nickn]

infinite bandwidth? how is that so? i really dont think that's true?

the infrastructure seems scattered with Fios which may have some effect. its not like Japan and South Korea

I read an article that was published in 2006 that said a Japanese ISP was able to get 14tbps, yes terabits, from a single fiber strand. That is 1792 GB per second!!! Another article said that number was increased to around 20tbps earlier this year. For all practical purposes, yes, fiber has infinite bandwidth. The bottleneck is really on the processing equipment side, and not on the cable itself. Of course most will never likely see those speeds in our lifetime, as that equipment is targeted for ISP back haul, but the fact remains. As for your second point, perhaps. The service may not be as cheap as in Asia, but it should either be a heck of a lot cheaper then what it is now, or significantly faster. Remember, Sonic.net operates their $69 per month 1Gbps service in California. If that tiny ISP can do it, the big players such as AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast also certainly can. The simply wont though, as they don't want to pay any money for any new infrastructure. I think overall it is time to make the internet a utility, such as water, so we can start getting good service. Look at all of the municipal fiber services springing up to the absolute dismay of the lazy national carriers. Most muni networks seem to be doing good, and all provide excellent service at decent pricing.

 

[rgr555]

I read an article that was published in 2006 that said a Japanese ISP was able to get 14tbps, yes terabits, from a single fiber strand. That is 1792 GB per second!!! Another article said that number was increased to around 20tbps earlier this year. For all practical purposes, yes, fiber has infinite bandwidth. The bottleneck is really on the processing equipment side, and not on the cable itself. Of course most will never likely see those speeds in our lifetime, as that equipment is targeted for ISP back haul, but the fact remains. As for your second point, perhaps. The service may not be as cheap as in Asia, but it should either be a heck of a lot cheaper then what it is now, or significantly faster. Remember, Sonic.net operates their $69 per month 1Gbps service in California. If that tiny ISP can do it, the big players such as AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast also certainly can. The simply wont though, as they don't want to pay any money for any new infrastructure. I think overall it is time to make the internet a utility, such as water, so we can start getting good service. Look at all of the municipal fiber services springing up to the absolute dismay of the lazy national carriers. Most muni networks seem to be doing good, and all provide excellent service at decent pricing.

Interesting. Although I'm a lil skeptical that Verizon is using like 1% of their potential speeds for their provided services.....

 

[nickn]

Interesting. Although I'm a lil skeptical that Verizon is using like 1% of their potential speeds for their provided services.....

Believe it. As of right now, without upgrades, FIOS can go up to 2.4gbps on the download side. All they would need to do is type a few numbers in on their side to re-provision people on a higher tier. With simple hardware upgrades, the sky is the limit. For example, this was made by Verizon in 2010. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99sRhMdJqqI
Verizon shows a 10gbps provisioned line installed at a small business. Jump to 2:07 for a"speedtest". They manage to download a 2.3gb file in 4 seconds. Keep in mind that as late as last year, Verizon was starting FIOS service off at 3mbps. Yes, with an M. They could easily go up to 10,000mbps if they wished, but instead, they only go up to 150mbps... These ***** service providers need to go under...

 

[RobinHood5]

4 up 3 down....

 

[iCrosoft]

Believe it. As of right now, without upgrades, FIOS can go up to 2.4gbps on the download side. All they would need to do is type a few numbers in on their side to re-provision people on a higher tier. With simple hardware upgrades, the sky is the limit. For example, this was made by Verizon in 2010. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99sRhMdJqqI
Verizon shows a 10gbps provisioned line installed at a small business. Jump to 2:07 for a"speedtest". They manage to download a 2.3gb file in 4 seconds. Keep in mind that as late as last year, Verizon was starting FIOS service off at 3mbps. Yes, with an M. They could easily go up to 10,000mbps if they wished, but instead, they only go up to 150mbps... These ***** service providers need to go under...

Amen! I love the idea of having a municipal data provider.

 

[klo-mac]

Since the new iPad has a gorgeous retina display that is capable of playing some nice 1080p videos but slow Internet makes this impossible to enjoy, I was wondering how fast is your home Internet speed?

Paradox is here:

Home i get 356KB from 4 MB the company say that sent to me.
On my 3G I get 2MB

Frequently I use 3G data to see YouTube videos