Verizon: We Can't Become Dumb Pipes

Re:Verizon: We Can't Become Dumb Pipes by Unklejoe on Wednesday August 03, 2016 @08:48AM (#12217517)

My FiOS internet has been good to me. It's always able to achieve the BW specified by them, and there is no throttling/cap. I've even been running a web server for years without any issues (you aren't supposed to do that with a residential connection).

Comcast, on the other hand, has bandwidth caps at 250 GB, but I think they recently raised them to 1 TB. However, even 1 TB isn't huge by today's standards, especially with everything migrating towards the "cloud".

However, The FiOS TV service isn’t that great. The standard definition boxes are so slow that they are unusable and tend to simply break every year or so (gets stuck in a boot loop and flashes “FPGA” on the front display, which is kind of interesting). The HD boxes are much better, but I don’t want to spend the money. Also, it’s expensive, but I doubt Comcast is any better. They probably compete very tightly with each other in areas where both are available.

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Re:Verizon: We Can't Become Dumb Pipes by chadgeidel on Wednesday August 03, 2016 @12:37PM (#12219266)

I've heard about the Comcast bandwidth cap and it's my opinion that is only for the "lowest tier" of service. I've got the "middle tier" (there are so many levels I don't know where I lie) and use way more than 250 every month. I've never received a notice - not even the one month where I was over 1 TB.

YMMV, Anecdote != data, etc.

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