I saw FIOS TV for the first time

[dtro77]

I still don't understand why someone would need a 300mbit connection in your home. Maybe for the fools running torrents and stuff all the time for pirated movies.

Unfortunately now in this day, it's all about the monthly cap, not the speed. As with most providers speeds you could blow through your cap in a few days running at 100% of your speed.

I don't understand why someone needs more then 10 mbps.

I've got 4 hard wired items in my router, as well as 8 wireless items, and yet to have a speed issue. We netflix and do online gaming, anything atleast a normal house would do. Never an issue yet.

 

[dtro77]

Back to the topic, we have some family in NY that have Fios tv , and yes that is a very nice PQ. But can't stand their equipment!

 

[duckydan]

I have Fios and wanted to cancel a few times but never due to the service... I went through 5 cisco DVRs / multi-room DVRs that never worked. I would get "rain fade" style pixilation on my boxes and had my cable lines changed out twice. It never stopped. I decided to buy a tivo to see if it was hardware based and since then it stopped and I have no complaints. I love the internet speed (have the 35mbps plan) for streaming.

My only complaint is that they are behind in HD channels and are out of QAM space to add more. I'd really like CN HD and the previouly promised Disney Jr HD for my daughter (and my upcoming child) as well as a few other channels currently not available. other than that I am enjoying it.

 

[tnsprin]

I don't understand why someone needs more then 10 mbps.

I've got 4 hard wired items in my router, as well as 8 wireless items, and yet to have a speed issue. We netflix and do online gaming, anything atleast a normal house would do. Never an issue yet.

If you want to watch video, particularly HD, 10 mbps is too slow. 300 may be drastic overkill. I am currently on FIOS 35/35, but wouldn't mind if they want to give me 75/35 for about the same price.

 

[SatelliteGAL]

We have absolutely no complaints about any of the channels we watch. I think anyone who is interested and can receive FIOS needs to - 1. Check the channel lineup to see if it suits their needs. 2. Do a no contract trial and decide for yourself based on what you watch. We watch a lot of different channels but we do not really watch sports or kiddie programs. It is extremely rare that something comes on that we are not satisfied with the picture quality and after two years we still say WOW when we watch some programs. None of our tvs are bargain tvs which DOES also impact the picture you see.

 

[SatelliteGAL]

If you want to watch video, particularly HD, 10 mbps is too slow. 300 may be drastic overkill. I am currently on FIOS 35/35, but wouldn't mind if they want to give me 75/35 for about the same price.

I keep watching for the announcement that it has been made available.

 

[Xizer]

The 300 Mbps will be useful for downloading Blu-rays; offsite cloud backup of your entire machine (my machine currently has 20 terabytes of storage making FiOS's speeds a life saver), hosting of numerous game servers without worrying about degraded performance; downloading the entire libraries of porn sites (Brazzers' archive alone is many terabytes).

Those of you on this site should be aware of the virtues of being able to backup high bitrate satellite feeds. That 300 Mbps tier is going to be a godsend for offsite archiving of satellite backhaul feed captures which often have bitrates in excess of 30 Mbps.

Basically the 300 Mbps is for hardcore nerding out.

 

[dtro77]

The 300 Mbps will be useful for downloading Blu-rays; offsite cloud backup of your entire machine (my machine currently has 20 terabytes of storage making FiOS's speeds a life saver), hosting of numerous game servers without worrying about degraded performance; downloading the entire libraries of porn sites (Brazzers' archive alone is many terabytes).

Those of you on this site should be aware of the virtues of being able to backup high bitrate satellite feeds. That 300 Mbps tier is going to be a godsend for offsite archiving of satellite backhaul feed captures which often have bitrates in excess of 30 Mbps.

Basically the 300 Mbps is for hardcore nerding out.

I would say thats true for any speeds over 20 mbps. Unless its a cheap in your bundle pack . But anyone who pays $100 for internet service to stream netflix, or download movies is Crazy! There goes all your savings that your all claimed to be making by not subscribing to tv services.

I've yet run into a problem at home that I would need more then 10 Mbps.

Most times your only as fast as your computer,router.

 

[digiblur]

The 300 Mbps will be useful for downloading Blu-rays; offsite cloud backup of your entire machine (my machine currently has 20 terabytes of storage making FiOS's speeds a life saver), hosting of numerous game servers without worrying about degraded performance; downloading the entire libraries of porn sites (Brazzers' archive alone is many terabytes).

Those of you on this site should be aware of the virtues of being able to backup high bitrate satellite feeds. That 300 Mbps tier is going to be a godsend for offsite archiving of satellite backhaul feed captures which often have bitrates in excess of 30 Mbps.

Basically the 300 Mbps is for hardcore nerding out.

Sounds great for pirates sharing those blurays.

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[Ronnie-]

If you want to watch video, particularly HD, 10 mbps is too slow. 300 may be drastic overkill. I am currently on FIOS 35/35, but wouldn't mind if they want to give me 75/35 for about the same price.

You can watch a "HD" stream off of netflix, and a true HD stream off of VUDU (with no, or very little, wait) on less than a 10 mbps connection. We do it all the time.

 

[dtro77]

We did it with Verizons 3 mbps DSL .
I willing bet most internet subscribers in the USA have 10 MBPS internet or less!


Yep I was right I google it the average home is 3.9 MBPS


The reason, most people don't want to spend $100 per month on internet to stream HD content off netflix, when you can spend $30.

 

[tnsprin]

You can watch a "HD" stream off of netflix, and a true HD stream off of VUDU (with no, or very little, wait) on less than a 10 mbps connection. We do it all the time.

Not all HD streams are compressed as well as Vudu. For Mpeg4 streams often run very close to 10 Mbps. And of course mpeg2 are much worse.

 

[Ronnie-]

Not all HD streams are compressed as well as Vudu.

Of course not, I am just saying that there is not a mainstream streaming service available that I can not watch in HD (whatever that happens to be among the providers) with my lowly 7Mbps cable service. I have used most all of them (amazon, vudu, netflix, Hulu, Zune, Sony whatever its called, ect), and they all work fine.

 

[tigerfan33]

Of course not, I am just saying that there is not a mainstream streaming service available that I can not watch in HD (whatever that happens to be among the providers) with my lowly 7Mbps cable service. I have used most all of them (amazon, vudu, netflix, Hulu, Zune, Sony whatever its called, ect), and they all work fine.

True. I have the 6Mbps (really 5 1/2) and have no problem streaming any hd.

 

[tnsprin]

Lots of stuff on Youtube don't stream that well.

And lots of stuff on these services lower the bitrate to match what you can support, resulting in an inferior picture especially at rates lower then 10 Mbps. 10 MBPS, in my opininon, is just barely able to support such streams.

 

[Ronnie-]

According to Netflix themselves , all you need for their HD feed is 5mbps.

http://support.netflix.com/en/node/306

For Hulu plus it is 3mbps

http://www.hulu.com/support/article/20196801

Vudu hd is 2.2. HDX is 4.5.

http://speedtest.vudu.com/cdn1/

Amazon seems to be 3.5.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=200256920



What can I say, from my experience this is accurate.

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[digiblur]

I fully agree with those numbers as well. As I can watch the bandwidth including timelines on any device on my router.

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[DodgerKing]

Of course not, I am just saying that there is not a mainstream streaming service available that I can not watch in HD (whatever that happens to be among the providers) with my lowly 7Mbps cable service. I have used most all of them (amazon, vudu, netflix, Hulu, Zune, Sony whatever its called, ect), and they all work fine.

If you were to watch live streaming sports you would need more than 10Mbps

 

[Ronnie-]

If you were to watch live streaming sports you would need more than 10Mbps

I agree with this moreso than with the netflix/huku/ect services.

Even so, I can still watch MLBtv, and while it looks pretty good if I get full access to my connection, you can tell there is some room for improvement. I would say I get "dvd" quality on that versus "hd".

ESPN3 seems to require more for a good feed than most.

 

[dtro77]

I agree with this moreso than with the netflix/huku/ect services.

Even so, I can still watch MLBtv, and while it looks pretty good if I get full access to my connection, you can tell there is some room for improvement. I would say I get "dvd" quality on that versus "hd".

ESPN3 seems to require more for a good feed than most.

Nothing wrong with DVD quailty. People just get blinded by numbers.