| Is FiOS an ISP? Best way to game this is stop offering low cost/lower end products (Charter) or change your name and get your total offering ignored (even though you steer people there when it is not available - FiOS) |
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| EL CHEAPOS Uverse did not even make the top 15 !? Wow. Thank goodness AT&T went the cheap FTTN route eh?. Verizon FiOS passes half as many homes and has more fiber subscribers than Uverse. Dummies. |
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| Don't like these stats. They say all this about the fastest isp's in these areas but if it's user tests then isn't it only what they subscribe to? Example being, all of Titusville, Fl has brighthouse 40/5 available but most people subscribe to 10/1 in the bundle so these stats really don't mean anything. |
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| FIOS My slow connection is 150/65 : / |
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| .. These speed results are largely useless considering people are only gonna get what they pay for. Power/speed boost also inflates the results considerably. |
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 skeechanAi OtsukaholicPremium
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Re: Don't like these stats. Exactly, it isn't who is the fast ISP, it is what people are buying and who follow the PC Mag link.
Speedtest.net's ACTUAL results are quite different. |
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skeechanAi OtsukaholicPremium
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kudos:2 | reply to MonkeyLick78
Re: .. ...just like not buying the fastest available tier deflates results considerably. |
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 wdoa
join:2001-10-16
Spencer, MA | Charter?, maybe at 4:30AM With Charter they must have done the tests at 4:30AM otherwise they would have found the latency and speed to be horrible from the oversold nodes. |
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Re: Is FiOS an ISP? Exactly, Speedtest.net themselves show "Verizon" averaging only 5Mbps.
»www.netindex.com/download/2,1/United-States/
According to REAL speedtest.net results of "average" users
1. Optimum Online
2. Charter
3. Comcast
4. Cox
5. Cable One
6. Mediacom
7. Roadrunner
8. Insight
9. Suddenstink
10. AT&T U-Verse
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15. Verizon Internet
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19. AT&T Internet Services |
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join:2001-01-13
Glen Head, NY | Optimum Online Boy how times have changed. I remember when Optimum Online's 10/1 speeds were the highest in the industry. Granted you can pay more for more speed but the base 20/2 tier is no longer leading the pack. On the plus side, we do not have any usage caps (yet?).
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I support the right to keep and arm bears. |
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Re: .. Or not buying the fastest available service. I know someone who subscribes to 768kbit/s DSL even though 15mbit/s cable is available at her address. She has a grandfathered deal ($20/mo) for the DSL, already does business with Verizon, doesn't do business with Time Warner, and primarily uses her connection for e-mail and staying current on the Facebook shenanigans of her grandchildren.
No real reason for her to change her service, is there? Any other option increases her costs and provides a level of service that's overkill for her needs. |
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 CheesePremium
join:2003-10-26
Naples, FL
kudos:1 | reply to brianiscool
Re: FIOS Time to upgrade yo!  |
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skeechanAi OtsukaholicPremium
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kudos:2 | This is a joke This is like ranking the world's fastest car brand based on putting a radar gun on the side of the road. |
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| reply to Sofa King
Re: Is FiOS an ISP? The graphs are completely worthless in my opinion. Notice FiOS is listed under some as well as Verizon Internet Services. What's the difference? Clearly Verizon Internet Services includes FiOS, because their DSL is not near that fast. And in the NorthWest region, Frontier is rated at 4.9mbps upload? I have a very hard time believing their small amount of fiber connections can offset their DSL connection by that much. Certainly not real world results. |
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skeechanAi OtsukaholicPremium
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kudos:2 | reply to n2jtx
Re: Optimum Online They are the fastest residential ISP, not Verizon.
»www.netindex.com/download/2,1/United-States/ |
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 MSaukMSaukPremium
join:2002-01-17
Sandy, UT | reply to skeechan
Re: This is a joke Northwest is struggling, yikes |
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| reply to ITALIAN926
Re: EL CHEAPOS said by ITALIAN926:Uverse did not even make the top 15 !? Wow. Thank goodness AT&T went the cheap FTTN route eh?. Yeah, good job, SBC, eh? Way to take what once was the premier TelCom in the entire world and turn it into a backwater level company.
said by ITALIAN926: Verizon FiOS passes half as many homes and has more fiber subscribers than Uverse. Dummies.
Their investors like them. That's all they care about, these days. |
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I feel sorry for the people in Silicon Valley that are stuck on uVerse.
If any place in this country should have FIOS, it's the San Jose area. |
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| reply to Cheese
Re: FIOS I am waiting for the 300Mbps tier to drop down to $99 a month. |
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iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
kudos:2 | reply to silbaco
Re: Is FiOS an ISP? If you've got 35/35, that can offset a LOT of low-speed results. |
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