Aaron Pressman

A member of the Philip Greenspun's Homepage community since February 4, 2009

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February 4, 2009, on Verizon FiOS Versus Comcast:
I'm a little concerned about the apples to oranges nature of this review and from some of the commenters. I live in Needham where I had Comcast Internet service for many years and then replaced it with FIOS in the fall of 2007. Same house, same wiring, same wifi issues, same town etc etc. In my experience, FIOS has been a far superior Internet provider than Comcast. In my case, the gain in upload speed was considerable and I'm not doing anything too unusual (I backup most data to Mozy nightly and also use ZenFolio for photo backup). And downloads of anything substantial -- TV shows from iTunes or Amazon Unbox, for example -- are noticeably quicker. I have not experienced any problems with latency when web surfing, either. Viewing streaming video is clearly better with fewer freezes and delays under FIOS than it was with Comcast. The Actiontec wifi router replaced a Linksys wifi router and has slightly better range inside our old brick house. Plenty of dead spots either way. In the...