Comments on: Optimum Online 30/5 BOOST vs. Verizon FiOS 20/20

By: VZ is Garbage

VZ is Garbage — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 04:34:43 +0000

OPTIMUM OWNS, FIOS BLOWS.
Firstly Verizon is the most evil teleco i have ever encountered that only spews BS lies and thrives on ppl being ignorant/uninformed. They make ppl think that just because fiber is in the house that means its better == BS. Modern cable infrastructure is mostly fiber, they only use coax from the pole/switchbox to ur house, that saves them and u money on running fiber into the premises which wouldnt add any benefits to the enduser or the cable company. Modern embedded signal processors are now fast enough to transmit data over copper as fast as most fiber implementations. The only advantage fiber has in this situation is that the cable can be longer without needing a repeater to boost the signal(less attenuation). which in the case of cable infrastructure is usually meaningless. So wats left, speed, price, and stability of the service. Since both infrastructures are mostly fiber, the stability is the same, and the speed/price are much much better from optimum. Verizon loves raping their customers. Both TV services offer the same quality HD service so that claim vz makes thats its the best quality, is yet again another lie. So in comparison of FIOS and OOL, only a retard picks FIOS if OOL is an available option.
I also wanna mention how badely their wireless services are. They use oldschool cdma2000 technology, that in no way is able compete with the speed, quality, and availablity of gsm/umts/hsdpa. For some reason ppl think verizon has the best service, and I think that is due to BS advertisements, and retards trying to justify their expensive crappy phones/service. Also the phones they use are exclusive to them(totalcrap) or are manufacturer modified gsm phones made to work with cdma which are released months after the gsm versions hit the market. The latter are made poorly made cuz they use crappy cdma chips that are bigger and use more power which stresses the original(gsm) design of those phones resulting in inferior overall quality compared to their gsm counterparts.
P.S. the security on the VZWireless network is a joke, a 10yr old with some skills can evesdrop on and/or hijack any phonecalls u make.
P.P.S evesdropping/hijacking is also possible on gsm but is harder to achieve. Shh

F U VZ, You Dirty SCUMBAGS

By: UNKNOWNED

UNKNOWNED — Mon, 18 May 2009 23:48:34 +0000

I saw this add on the Star Ledger today and it said Verizon FiOS is better because its faster, and has more HD channels then Optimum. Optimnum is real great, but Verizon has the WORST and I mean WORST costumer service ever, to keep it short, its just too good(both of them)!

By: Babylon

Babylon — Fri, 15 May 2009 16:59:43 +0000

Upload speeds are great, between 4.5 and 5.3
Mbs anytime of day. Downloads used to be between
27-32 anytime of day but have taken a turn for the worst sinse 4/1/09. Early Am I get between 15-20
Daytime 7-10Mbs. OOL, being a shared pipe, is not
compensating for the draw on the network, something the service agents said, it WAS prepared to handle.
OOL will intraduce another service Ultra2 coming soom
which is supposed toprovide 100Mbs down and 50 Mbs up.
Im guessing the pricing will be through the moon,
making it totally unaffordable.
Anyone have experience with FIOS and if so how are the speeds.

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 11:15:29 +0000

Fios has worked out their billing issues. The consistancy and speed of their internet is better than Optimum on Line. The TV pictures are so much better its not even close. Dollar for dollar, Fios is the better, high tech all in one solution

By: frankie

frankie — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 06:17:13 +0000

I HAVE FIOS the triple play as we would call it and there no speed atleast in ny long island area i get 20/20 at no extra charge and i always download and upload the same no matter what day or what time i upload 2.33 megs a sec sustained no drops and i upload just as fast when i was using torrent a cool 2.28 megs a second way faster then optonline and for me i am not paying extra. my phone my tv with the extreme hd package 5 hd boxes 1 dvr all hd channels muchhhhhhhh more premium HD channels by farrr and 20/20 for the price of 176.00 a month
the tv guide user interface is wayyy more advanced and up to date then crappy optonline ohh and did i mention free VOD for all my premium channels with optonline you have to pay 5 bux a month for each permium channel EX: HBO etc
sorry cable your way behind .but cable does have superior customer technical support that i do give them

By: ohyeah?

ohyeah? — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 03:13:49 +0000

I know this is old, but Verizon can incrementally increase their speeds to the limit of the fiber, which is always increasing due to technological advances. Coax cable has much lower bandwidth. FIOS is fiber to the home. No bottlenecks. This is something Cable has, and cant fix. Wait till Verizon offers 100 MB service and makes 50 MB Standard… Which they say will be very soon.

Sorry about the typos, I need some sleep!

By: ohyeah?

ohyeah? — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 03:12:19 +0000

I know this is old, but can incrementally increase their speeds to the limit of the fiber, which is always increasing due to technological advances. Coax cable has much lower bandwidth. FIOS is fiber to the home. Not bottlenecks. This is something Cable cant fix. Wait till Verizon offers 100 MB service and makes 50 Standard… Which they say will be very soon.

By: ooeric

ooeric — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 03:44:58 +0000

ive been having the same problems with OOL
the normal boost speeds should be 20-30/4-5

for the past week or 2, ive been getting only 8-15/4-5 like the OP’s post.

now. im getting onto the phone and calling them to rant. why is it slow.

im paying for the 30. i should get somewhere at least 75% to it.

By: Mr. T

Mr. T — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 08:16:34 +0000

FIOS Tech support is great, FIOS billing stinks, Iwont get into why. That said their service as compared to Cablevision OOL is definately superior. I have had FIOS for two years, I only have the basic 10/2 but I always I mean always get 10100 – 10500 and 1.6 – 1.85 up. I compare to my neighbors who have OOL 30/5 and I often have more bandwidth down, especially during “peak times”. I am sure that FIOS 20/20 will much better than OOL 30/5. the fact that FIOS actually delivers the stated throuput or better is the diference. OOL’s throughput gets slower in times of greater demand. I have received large files from my brother who has OOL and they capped him throttling back his upload to almost nothing and his download to low KB’s. The reason was “over use”. FIOS never does this and the fact that they offer 20 up shows that they have no problem with file sharing.

By: Jason

Jason — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 07:01:10 +0000

Sorry… I missed this before. Also remember that Comcast is also a Fiber Optic network, as is FiOS. It’s hard to really compare the two, because they are two of the more popular competitors. Again, good luck with your choice buddy.