Verizon is turning on the fiber in Tampa. Here is a quick overview of the Verizon FIOS service. Ridiculous ridiculous speeds. Finally the U.S. is joining the rest of the developed world.
5 Mbps down / 2 Mbps up for $34.99 a month
15 Mbps down / 2 Mbps up for $44.99 a month
Yum. We'll see this in the NYC area this year, but maybe not inside the city until next (Nassau and Westchester first it looks like.)
Seeing those numbers, my 128k IDSL feels even slower.
:-)
You can do better than that wirelessly now with Verizon EV-DO. 200 - 300 Kbps, although you have to pay $100 / month. Still, for a laptop user it's pretty f'ing cool to be always connected. There is fairly good national coverage. It's got a little latency, but I don't play games or anything. I'm really thinking about getting it.
Ah shit, who am I kidding. I can't get a $100/month wireless service for my laptop. But I probably would if there was some way to justify it (which there isn't despite my best efforts at self deception.)
But if I could buy an EV-DO phone (which you can,) that also doubled as a modem for my laptop through either a bluetooth link or even a USB cable (which you can't yet,) I would definitely pay $100/month for that (in other words for all my voice and data service.)
I think the LG VX8000 is the only EV-DO handset you can buy at the moment (for use on Verizon's EV-DO network.) Looks like they are going the complete walled garden route. Fuckers. You can watch video on the handset for an extra $15/month, but only Verizon's own video feeds. AFAICT you can't even get to the internet at large on the thing! The 1 megapixel camera is nice (with video!) but the only way to get photos off the camera is to upload it through Verizons picture messaging service ($$$.)
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5 Mbps down / 2 Mbps up for $34.99 a month
15 Mbps down / 2 Mbps up for $44.99 a month
Yum. We'll see this in the NYC area this year, but maybe not inside the city until next (Nassau and Westchester first it looks like.)
- jim 1-13-2005 7:58 pm
Seeing those numbers, my 128k IDSL feels even slower.
- mark 1-14-2005 1:07 am
:-)
You can do better than that wirelessly now with Verizon EV-DO. 200 - 300 Kbps, although you have to pay $100 / month. Still, for a laptop user it's pretty f'ing cool to be always connected. There is fairly good national coverage. It's got a little latency, but I don't play games or anything. I'm really thinking about getting it.
- jim 1-14-2005 1:23 am
Ah shit, who am I kidding. I can't get a $100/month wireless service for my laptop. But I probably would if there was some way to justify it (which there isn't despite my best efforts at self deception.)
But if I could buy an EV-DO phone (which you can,) that also doubled as a modem for my laptop through either a bluetooth link or even a USB cable (which you can't yet,) I would definitely pay $100/month for that (in other words for all my voice and data service.)
I think the LG VX8000 is the only EV-DO handset you can buy at the moment (for use on Verizon's EV-DO network.) Looks like they are going the complete walled garden route. Fuckers. You can watch video on the handset for an extra $15/month, but only Verizon's own video feeds. AFAICT you can't even get to the internet at large on the thing! The 1 megapixel camera is nice (with video!) but the only way to get photos off the camera is to upload it through Verizons picture messaging service ($$$.)
- jim 1-14-2005 8:52 pm