Switched to FIOS from DSL more than two years ago. The rollout here in North Texas is neighborhood by neighborhood; I've had it for more than two years, and my friend across town still doesn't have it anywhere close. And he's anxious: FIOS is a huge upgrade from anything else. I routinely get 6-8 MBS downstream, and 3-4 MBS upstream. It's especially noticable in bandwidth intensive applications such as Remote Desktop. VOIP goes from ... Well, VOIP to land-line quality on FIOS. Bottom line: I routinely do things now I would never dream of trying on DSL, such as running an app on the server over RD while showing it on a VOIP WebEx conference call.
Haven't tried the TV packages, so can't comment there. North Texas is as flat as a board, which means you can get 15 channels over the air with rabbit ears. Hope that helps. cjf Christopher J. Feola President nextPression, Inc. www.nextPression.com -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Owen Densmore Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 5:18 PM To: 1st-Mile-NM; The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: [FRIAM] Verizon FiOS - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia I was probing around for internet tv services (I'm considering dropping cable/sat/.. and moving to AppleTV + "home theater" or similar .. i.e. "internet tv") and happened across a NFL football site that offers HD service through something called FiOS .. which I hadn't seen before. Apparently there's a very nifty broadband service evolving: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fios Here's an older survey on it: http://tinyurl.com/8m4mgx One interesting statement they make is: The results are clear. If speed is what you're after, go with FiOS first, cable second and DSL last. (I'd be suspicious of the DSL/Cable difference, given the shared nature of cable.) Has anyone tried FiOS? Unfortunately it is not available in Santa Fe .. we're a bit third world, alas. But maybe it'll get here some time and I'd like to know if your experiences are good. -- Owen ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.176 / Virus Database: 270.10.5/1886 - Release Date: 1/10/2009 6:01 PM ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
