FiOS Customers Get Speed Boost

Verizon FiOS customers will soon benefit from another speed boost, this time round via coaxial cables that are already in place, connected to the FiOS set-top boxes throughout their homes. This broadband service will see throughput speeds on coax cables increase from 75 MBps to 175 MBps, which is a vast jump by any standards. Of course, real world performance will rarely touch such high levels due to many other factors, but it is nice to see the potential that customers are getting even though it is not realized. Verizon also mentioned that the new routers (MI424-WR from Actiontec and the UltraLine Series 3 model 9100 by Westell) are able to support up to four simultaneous wireless networks. The new hardware will onily be delivered to new customers sometime later this year, so existing customers are out of luck.