100Mbps FiOS: Verizon and Actiontec bring it to homes

[clevich]

For the chosen few who have access to Verizon's FiOS fiber-optic broadband network, they're about to get quite the speed boost. The already bandwidth-generous service is getting upped to 100Mbps for home users with the help of a new router from Actiontec designed to Verizon's spec. 100Mbps speeds have been available to business customers for a while, but now Verizon is ready to spread the love to mere consumers. The router, cleverly titled the MI-424-WR, includes wireless networking, a firewall and remote diagnostics tools to better assist consumers in administrating their new speedy networks. Verizon is also rolling out a new technology to allow the use of coaxial cable instead of Ethernet, to allow for easier home installations. This will speed and cheapen rollout, which means we'll hopefully see these types of speeds before they stick us in a nursing home.

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holy fuck.... talk about having your house turned into a DC. You could be downloading porn at 12.5MB's a second!

[MarcelM]

Originally Posted by clevich

holy fuck.... talk about having your house turned into a DC. You could be downloading porn at 12.5MB's a second!

I was just thinking the same thing, except for the porn ;o)

But yea, that´s very fast... I am at 20 mb/s, but that kind of speed will arrive years and years later here. Oh well, you will need it when Blue ray DvD´s and the other kind of Dvd´s come out... 54 gigabytes on one disc...

[mapleleaf4ever]

Oh man... I think my Hard Drive just threw up a little.

So much music to be had...