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| Verizon offers 300Mbps Quantum Internet Service |
Verizon is offering four different speed packages for their FiOS service. Their "slowest" package offers 50Mbps downloading speed and 25Mbps uploading speed ($79.99/Month). It is the second number that excites me. Anyone that has ever played a FPS or any other multi-person online game knows that if your upload speed sucks your gameplay experience is going to suck as well. With the Fiber option you're going to have rock solid consistent upload speeds so there should be absolutely no worries about any in-game lag.
The other three packages that round out the offering are 75Mbps/35Mbps ($89.99/Month), 150Mbps/65Mbps ($99.99/Month), and of course the beast... 300Mbps/65Mbps ($209.99/Month!).
While any geek would drool all over themselves for this sort of connection, is it really worth it? I mean, as an individual user, do you do enough with your internet connection to take full advantage of it? Personally I think I would be fine with the 50/25 package. That would be MORE than enough for what I do on the interwebs.
But, then again, Verizon claims that on the 300/65 package you can download a 5GB HD movie in 2.2 minutes. And let us be completely honest... That's just really fucking cool.
Say what? Give me a 10/5 speed, and I'm fine! I already pay like $15 for like 0.8/0.5 (something like that)
ReplyDeleteExactly. My home connection at the moment is 6/3 and I think I pay $20 a month. It does what I need it to do for the moment. Once I get back into school I'll probably jump to a 10/5 package.
DeleteVerizon is ass, nuff said.
ReplyDeleteWhere I live, Verizon has the best wireless service. I can't speak for their Residential stuff though. But there are places where I'm only getting 1 bar of Edge service on AT&T and my friends will be getting full service on 3G with Verizon.
DeleteI am planning to go for new ipad with Verizon, AT&T is like dead weight. This pacakge sounds cool, but I will stick with my humble comcast.
ReplyDeleteI don't think it's worth it, but I think it's great that it's finally happening. In a few years that speed will be normal, now.
ReplyDeleteWow! The speeds are high and so are the prices!
ReplyDeleteIs it just me or are the ads on the sidebar all for Telecomm companies NOT named Verizon? Google got jokes.
ReplyDeletethat's like, all the porn I tried downloading on dial up in the late 90's/early 00's all zapped to my computer in 0.5 seconds. SUUUUUUUUUUper fast nowadays!
ReplyDeleteThats insanely fast.. wonder if its worth it?
ReplyDeleteThat is cool, but completely ridiculous... ><
ReplyDeleteyesterday i paid for an upgrade to the 50/25 tier & am currently hitting 35/1 on a cat5 connection. after an hour & a half on the phone with Verizon they blamed it on the network "buffer size" on my pc. they also refused to replace the dead battery in their box that is under the locked "telos service only" part of the fios box, it's been beeping for weeks. they suggested i bust it open & goto the hardware store for a replacement. our satanic corporate overlords win again.
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