My FIOS is advertised 50Mbps up and down.  When downloading games via steam I'm 
regularly peaking at 7MBps.  Latency for things like audio and video chat is 
quite acceptable.

I'm too far away from the CO to get anything other than ISDN so I'm kinda stuck 
with cable/FIOS.

On Jul 4, 2014 7:41 AM, David Rysdam <da...@rysdam.org> wrote:
>
> John Abreau <j...@blu.org> writes: 
> > Internet "speed" is a conflation of two different things: bandwidth and 
> > latency. Merely increasing your bandwidth won't do anything to address 
> > problems with latency. If you combine both of these in your head and call 
> > it "speed", then you're setting yourself up for expensive disappointment. 
>
> I'm specifically looking for speed. Downloads, uploads, videos, etc. We 
> don't do any gaming or anything where latency is a big issue. 
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