My business partner has (and I'm getting in about 2 months) the Verizon FIOS service. Good and bad:
Good:
15 MB/sec down - 2 Mb/sec up. I've tested and consistnetly see number snorth of 13 Mb down
You can bundle it with your phone and TV service
$44 a month
Bad:
Its Verizon. And that means eventually you will have to call customer service. Do yourself a favour, and shoot yourself. Or use hard drugs.
Is a Fiber Optic offering, probably similar to what they are talking about here. In some areas Verizon has already bumped it to 20/4 for the same cost.
I just got off the phone with DirecTV. I was told that there will be a firmware download that will allow MPEG-4 datastreams to be handled. There will be no cost for this. My question to the/. hivemind:
Since the HR10-250 is basically a Linux machine, is there any reason that the hardware would have to be changed? Isn't this just a codec?
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My business partner has (and I'm getting in about 2 months) the Verizon FIOS service. Good and bad: Good: 15 MB/sec down - 2 Mb/sec up. I've tested and consistnetly see number snorth of 13 Mb down You can bundle it with your phone and TV service $44 a month Bad: Its Verizon. And that means eventually you will have to call customer service. Do yourself a favour, and shoot yourself. Or use hard drugs. Is a Fiber Optic offering, probably similar to what they are talking about here. In some areas Verizon has already bumped it to 20/4 for the same cost.
I just got off the phone with DirecTV. I was told that there will be a firmware download that will allow MPEG-4 datastreams to be handled. There will be no cost for this. My question to the /. hivemind:
Since the HR10-250 is basically a Linux machine, is there any reason that the hardware would have to be changed? Isn't this just a codec?