Review by hroo772 
UPDATED: 22 days ago
member for 7.6 years, 2773 visits, last login: a few hours ago
 Mclean,Fairfax,VA
 $90 per month (12 month contract)
 about 7 days
 "Extremly low latency, consistent bandwidth, great routing, no bandwidth caps"
 "havn't found anything yet"
 "If your looking for the latest technology, this is where it's at."
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I have ordered the 15mbps/2mbps package of FIOS which comes in at $55 a month. The order was easy to make over the phone because I knew the webordering was flawed. I was able to get a appointment with an installer a week later. A few days before the install a crew installed the wire from the aerial box. One the install date the installer came ontime and hooked everything up. Once a cat5 jack was put in I was able to connect my old router up which was already configured for PPPoE. This let me get connected right off the bat. Once I was browsing around the tech had me do a speedtest to make sure everything was alright, which it was. As simple as the install was for me, I think that everyone that can get this service should.
Since that time I've upgraded to the 30mbps/5mbps package which still gives me all the bandwidth I need. The extra upload speed has come in handy with the video work I do.
Update Aug 08: Moved up again and upgraded my speeds to 50mbps/20mbps. This speed is incredible and is actually all available at all times. I didn't think this would be a reality since US internet is pretty crap for the most part, but this blows it out of the water. Downloading full cd's from Microsoft (MSDN) takes less then a minute and DVD's are downloaded in under 5 min. At this point I don't know if Verizon can really screw up with their amazing track record.
Update Mar 09: Still have the 50/20 package, had no downtime at all. We also added the FIOS TV service, which is pretty great. Havn't really had many issues with the tv service, the only gripe is the small dvr harddrive size which fills quickly with too many hdtv recordings.
Update Oct 2009: The 50/20 package still amazes. Only ever had an outage or two, which was more of a regional problem then something at my house, but wasn't for more then an hour or two. Don't think there is ever any reason to switch.
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