I’ve had the FIOS internet service for about a year now and just got the HD television service, packaged with an upgrade to 20Mbps internet over their standard. I had Comcast internet service before that and thought it was pretty decent. I will say I noticed considerably more reliable speed with the 10Mbps FIOS connection and now have ridiculously fast 20Mbps….for large downloads this doubling in speed is pretty impressive. For large files I have seen download rates around 2.2Mbps and have downloaded 700MB files in under 10 min.

TV service is great as well. We got the Extreme HD package and have access to much more HD content than I ever had with Comcast. I’m not sure on numbers…both are fairly suspect in how they report these things, but I would say I have at least 3-4x the number of HD stations as Comcast subscribers I know. The one thing is they don’t have HD content yet in their on demand section, but it is a pretty new service in general and I imagine they won’t wait too long before rolling that out.

Fiber technology is just simply better and can deliver more content to you than cable. It’s evident by the amazing speeds you can get with their Internet service and the amount of HD content they can deliver. I currently think they have a better product (in terms of meeting my particular entertainment needs) and think it will continue to develop into a superior product as they have the technological upper-hand right now.

Having it all packaged for $99 is great, too…very affordable in my opinion based on what you can get from most service providers.

I currently used directv and comcast for online and as soon as FiOS is available later this summer I will switch the online.  Other posters are correct the up it the big difference and the fact it is not a peak based “up to” you get what you pay for. 

Besides the fact I am a FiOS authorized reseller I would have to say it is worth the money for certain over similar spend with comcast.  Easy choice to me but just do what everybody does get a neighbor to show you the quality before you switch over.

Dave G.
They sent me the who converter boxes and remotes with their compliments.  AWESOME !!!

Dave, I am believer that FIOS Internet will one day rule! The speeds of up and down are unmatched by any cable/dsl provider currently. Even ATT’s uverse can’t hit anything higher than 2mb’s up. I cannot vouch for the TV service, even though I’ve heard nothing but good, I never used it. Sure! I know, you’re thinking to yourself, I’m happy with the speeds I have, why would I need more? Well if the future progresses to a more bandwidth driven home, example: Home Servers running the homes media storage, home automation, cloud/internet accessible files and controls…you will need more upload speeds without hurting even general internet use. Bandwidth is almost unlimited through the fiber, and the speeds are noticable.
I went from TWC/Comcast Cable 10 down 1 up, to Verizon FIOS 20 down and 20 up, NOW understand that the provided actiontec modem router/wireless is junk. I was initionally setup on COAX to the actiontec from the box. I did some research, found I could use my own router and cat5 from the box….called them, told them to turn on the cat5 at the box, went home, plugged it all in aaand man was I understanding the reason for fiber. It opens up bandwidth, no matter how much you have going, as long as you have a good QoS and router…if and when I buy a house, it will have FIOS.

I switched from Comcast to Verizon FiOS last month after 6 years of having it available at the curb (underground).  What did it for me is a young salesman who came to the door.  Sorry to say I didn’t buy it from him (I wanted time to research it further).  Upon looking into it I found the $99/mo - two year - bundle deal irresistible. It includes free long distance and local calls, a huge no. of channels (I’ve since doubled the ISP connection speed, which increased the price by $10/mo and the crystal clear channels to 240+ so I can’t recall the original number of channels), and of course the FiOS Internet connection.  I had Verizon for phone and Comcast for TV and Internet before.  This is waay cheaper.  The modem/router included is high tech and we were told we won’t need to reset it vs. the cheap Comcast modem we had to reset so often.  So far, uptime is 100% for the first month :)  LOOK (OR WAIT) FOR “THE BUNDLE” DEAL.