Comments on: Verizon FiOS Gives Photographers Some Wicked Fast Upload Speed

By: David Schneider

David Schneider — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 23:54:59 +0000

Locally, service of any sort by Verizon is terrible. I dropped them in February and I’m still getting bills from them for no existent service in July. It’s taken a lot of time on the phone and still not resolved. Verizon technicians don’t seem to get service right. On the other hand, Comcast cable has great service. Most problems fixed on the telephone or service guys come right over. I actually forgot to pay studio cable bill for a couple of months and Comcast cut me off. I dropped check off at their office and had service in a few minutes. Not only that, I got a telephone call a couple of hours later thanking me for my payment. For the very small difference and pain in the neck Verizon is, I’d never go back to them.

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 02:33:50 +0000

@Phillip – Thanks for the link and comment. The speed estimates come from Verizon.

http://www22.verizon.com/Residential/FiOSInternet/FiOSvsCable/FiOSvsCable.htm

I was more concerned with the upload figures; however, now that you mention it, it looks like Verizon may have the 80% calculation on the wrong side of their equation for the download portion of the chart.

The upload chart looks right with FiOS at 10x faster than cable; however, the download chart shows a 20% speed increase when it should show a 5x speed increase.

Nice catch.

By: Phillip Dampier

Phillip Dampier — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 01:22:53 +0000

We wrote up your findings on Stop the Cap! earlier this afternoon, but it brought about a bunch of inquiries from our readers about whether the math is correct on those download speed differences, particularly with larger file transfers.

Can you elaborate on whether those speeds you list were “real world” experiments or could it be a math error. Our readers, most of whom don’t have FiOS, are wondering.

Thanks!