I wish they’d bring Fiber to MY door
I read this from Ars Technica this morning about the new Verison FIOS 20/20 plan, and all I can say is Wow!
Some residents of New York, Connecticut, and New Jersey who live inside the boundaries of Verizon's FiOS network will be the first to be able to take advantage of Verizon's new 20/20 FiOS service. As the name implies, 20/20 FiOS is a symmetrical 20Mbps connection (same speed in both directions), and it's one of the first symmetrical services to target the consumer market.
Available today, 20/20 will cost $64.99 per month and will include Verizon's Internet Security Suite and 1GB of online backup (up to 50GB can be purchased at "competitive rates").
20 Mbps down and up. It's just what I've been hoping would come to Chicago, but they don't seem any too interested in rolling it out to these parts - yet. However, it would be nice if Comcast responded with something like 10/10 which I'd be all over. The problem I've run into in setting up my home network services is not the uptime of my boxes, it's the speed and unreliability of the link. From home, in download mode, it's great. But accessing services from the road has always proved really quite hit or miss.
I look forward to the day when I don't have to worry about what's a home versus what's on my laptop. It'll make getting things done a lot easier.