RSSYahoo Joins with Verizon for FiOS Offer
By the Betanews Staff | Published January 19, 2006, 12:30 PM
Verizon and Yahoo announced the availability of a co-branded service for users of Verizon FiOS' ultra-high speed network on Thursday. FiOS subscribers would receive premium news and entertainment video content, broadband radio stations, a customized Yahoo Mail account, 100MB of online file storage, anti-virus and anti-spyware protection, and access to other Yahoo services.
FiOS can support connection speeds of up to 30 megabits per second, some four to five times faster than the offerings from cable Internet providers. Service charges range from $34.95 USD per month for 5Mbps downstream to $179.95 USD per month for the 30Mbps plan.
does anyone know if nyc will everrrrr have FiOS? hearing all these news about FiOS is making me jealous. sigh.
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|I have 10/100 fiber at work through Time Warner telecom, and we rarely see connections to the net above 1 mbps for most sites, and occasionally we'll see 6-8 for large downloads like ISO's from MSDN, etc.
Essentially the internet throttles itself down, most servers won't let you pull that data over at full speed. Even sites with videos scall that down to 200 kbps
One area where it does help is torrent (legal) downloads/uploads. There is a certain satisfaction in leaving out a linux torrent and uploading several gigs overnight.
the 100 megs of online storage is a joke. that number should be at least 2 gigs before it's even considered.
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|I can't wait to get FIOS supposedly in new home IF we qualify.
Cable 6MB down 400 KB up 49.95
FIOS 15 MB down 2 MB up 49.95
I am all over dat and the TV once they offer it
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|Have you listened to the Verizon ads? They quote xxxMbps and they say speeds and connectivity (uptime) are not guaranteed. Speed is never a problem with RR. If you get a slow down for some reason you just give them a call. They even sent a tech to my place who verified that it was a network problem, not my equipment. Shortly thereafter is was running fast as ever.
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|I got bad news for you. RR does not guarantee their speeds either. And the commercials you are speaking of are for regular DSL, not for FIOS. I used to have RR, and now I have FIOS. Abosultely no comparison at all. FIOS wins in every single way possible.
In fact, the only person who would say RR wins is some kind of sick, demented Cable-Provider fanboy.
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|I have FIOS.
Its incredibly faster than my road runner was.
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|i'm confused, my current offering goes at 100 Mbps and thats just SBC Yahoo
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|Your internal network speed of wired computers is 100Mbps. That means that from your computer to the router its 100Mbps. All data coming from out side you house can't exceed 768Kbps or whatever you have for DSL. Upload speeds are prolly 1/4th of your download.
So your data gets from your router to your computer really really fast... lol. But that makes no differnce because your outside internet connection is nowhere near that fast.
This is sad too because cable providers could theoretically have 30Mbps or much more to give you. Its just a marketing thing. Its like releasing processors. Everyone only gives you a little more at a time. Just enough to satisfy you more than what you had. I think Comcast is at 6Mbps down now... tho I'd take 2Mbps down if I could get 2Mbps up.
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|Verizon is going to have to do better than that. 5Mbps for $35 a month? Cable is at least that fast at the same price.
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|not here they are not cablevision(NY) 3MB for $45 with IOservice(which costs $70+) or no cable for $50.
Verizon has always been better and cheaper
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|Verizon has always been better and cheaper? hahaha... good one! =P
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|Cablevision (in NY) gives you 15Mbps as a BASIC offering. You can add the BOOST package for an extra $15 per month and up it to 30Mbps, DDNS, and a slew of other features. Read your bill, check their website. You just need to reboot your modem to get the 15Mbps.
They are doing this to compete with FIOS, as we all know competition is good.
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|I wish cablevision is available in manhattan. i stuck with with rr or verison dsl. i go with verizon since rr load webpage from asian very very slow. I got a good deal from verizon dsl anywa, 3 months free, then 23/mo there after. no contract
btw, i read in dslreports that CV cap your speed if you d/l too much.
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|Yeah, large parts of nyc boros suck: no cablevision, no fios, no free wifi, no cell inside subways...widespread that is-- and this is supposed to be the bleeding edge capital of the world?? Maybe this will change with Wimax-- hopefully it won't be too delayed nor cost an arm and leg.......
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|Yeah... not sure where you live, but $35 is a fantastic price. Chicago area easily pays twice that much. I'm sure Verizon won't have a piddly 400Kbps upload speed either like the cable companies.
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|HA they say their speed is 15Mbps but a speed check on several people that have cable comes in at 2-3mbps just check yesterday
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|It is good, optonline is usally out at least once a day, and about 3 times a month speed is as slow as 56k
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