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FIOS is the best thing ever.

December 12, 2007 at 1:41 am
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In case you were wondering.

It takes 10-15 seconds for a (standard def) video from Xbox Live to be ready to play.
I frequently download files at about 2 MB/sec from good servers.
Orb is amazing with 15mbps upload
Same goes for Remote Desktop
Bit Torrents aren’t choked by stupid Comcrap throttling software
My connection doesn’t drop momentarily every few minutes like it did with Comcrap, kicking Trillian off of AIM and causing lag in Halo.
Sure, it’s not even been a week, but the service has been operational 100% of that time. No middle of the night service interruptions so far.

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5 Responses to “FIOS is the best thing ever.”

Brandon Says:
December 12th, 2007 at 2:10 pm
Saddly, here in Ohio, time warner has a monopoly over the market, all I have is cable, I’m never going to get FIOS.
Chris Says:
January 3rd, 2008 at 2:28 am
I hate you.
Dan Says:
January 5th, 2008 at 8:19 pm
10-15 seconds? For a FIOS connection? For “standard” def? Just how high-def is this “standard” def anyways?!?!
Brandon Says:
January 5th, 2008 at 10:52 pm
It’s DVD quality 480p video downloaded from Live. It lets you begin to play the video once a large enough chunk is downloaded. I think in my case it usually downloads 30-40MB before playing - which is what takes 10-15 seconds. In other words, it’s very very fast.
FiOS lover Says:
February 22nd, 2008 at 10:31 am
FiOS is the ONLY way to go !!

BLOWS Optimum Online out of the freakin water……!!!!!

Hi. I'm Brandon. I'm a geek, and I work on Search technology for Windows at Microsoft. This is my blog.

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