| Re: Verizon's FiOS TV Service Takes Off in Texas |
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> T <nospam.kd1s@cox.nospam.net> writes:
>> In article <telecom25.106.17@telecom-digest.org>, rixride@hotmail.com
>> says:
>>> I use Fios and it is AWESOME! 15MB to the internet; you can't beat a
>>> clean fiber connection to the internet. They recently announced you
>>> will be able to get "cable" or basically 180 digital channels.
>> Uh -- we've had 15MB connections to the net for the last year. And it
>> isn't Verizon FIOS -- it's Cox over coaxial.
> Downstream.
> DOCSIS is must slower and less efficient in the upstream direction.
Funny thing is, I get 5MB up. As I'm not running any actual servers
out to the public that's more than enough. 90K of that is VoIP traffic
-- the rest is smtp, nntp, 5190, etc.