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FiOS Speed Hikes Coming Soon. Thanks Ant.

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Re: Sunday Metaverse

May 20, 2012, 21:35

zirik

The Half Elf wrote on May 20, 2012, 21:04: zirik wrote on May 20, 2012, 20:48: AnointedSword wrote on May 20, 2012, 18:59: How about get it to everyone before you start upgrading! dont worry. they throttle traffic depending on what site you visit so that speed bump wont matter. im supposed to get 15mbps but the most i have seen it on youtube or hulu is 2.6mbps. amazon streaming is even worse. and if you think the TV quality will be better than cable then you will be disappointed. on-demand is lethargic and their channel per package lineup is pathetic. i used to get three history channels, the military channel and three national geographics on the premium package with cable. i got none of that with the premium of fios. speedtest.net? just tested now. 24 down 5 up on a local server. 24 down and 3 up coast to coast. they dont show non-affiliated servers anymore. those show true speed because they dont recognize compression "turbo" schemes that verizon and comcast uses. using dslreports test gave me a warning about compression on my end. it gave me an adjusted speed of 6mb down/768k up using the sprint server from illinois. EDIT: this is sad. after repeated tests the verizon throttling kicks in. i now get 3mb down. lol. This comment was edited on May 20, 2012, 21:46.

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Comment [quote="zirik"May 20, 2012, 21:35][quote="The Half Elf"May 20, 2012, 21:04][quote="zirik"May 20, 2012, 20:48][quote="AnointedSword"May 20, 2012, 18:59]How about get it to everyone before you start upgrading! [/quote] dont worry. they throttle traffic depending on what site you visit so that speed bump wont matter. im supposed to get 15mbps but the most i have seen it on youtube or hulu is 2.6mbps. amazon streaming is even worse. and if you think the TV quality will be better than cable then you will be disappointed. on-demand is lethargic and their channel per package lineup is pathetic. i used to get three history channels, the military channel and three national geographics on the premium package with cable. i got none of that with the premium of fios. [/quote] speedtest.net? [/quote] just tested now. 24 down 5 up on a local server. 24 down and 3 up coast to coast. they dont show non-affiliated servers anymore. those show true speed because they dont recognize compression "turbo" schemes that verizon and comcast uses. using dslreports test gave me a warning about compression on my end. it gave me an adjusted speed of 6mb down/768k up using the sprint server from illinois. EDIT: this is sad. after repeated tests the verizon throttling kicks in. i now get 3mb down. lol. [/quote]

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