I have FIOS ISP at the moment and looking at my bill it tells me I have the 75/75 plan. That means 75 Mbps uploads and 75 Mbps downloads. I was looking at their customer site and they offer a Max’d Out Plan which is 980 Mbps downloads and 880 Mbps uploads. It is a bit more than I’m paying now but I wouldn’t mind if it will dramatically increase my speeds while gaming. Any thoughts or opinions would be helpful for me to understand this better and make the decision to upgrade or not.
Edit: I’m thinking that this wouldn’t make my speed any faster it would just increase the amount of data I can pass per second larger.
You are correct, It will increase the amount of data that you can pass through your internet connection. It probably will not have much of an impact on your latency times (the time it takes for a message to get from point ‘A’ to point ‘B’). Your best bet for good response times in online games is to make sure that you are playing on servers that are physically located as close to you as possible.
that’s literally what “speed” is
You are referring to latency, since you are already on fiber, more fiber shouldn’t reduce latency
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Be careful with the prices listed on the website. I looked into their Gbit package that was listed for $80 or so a month but once all is said and done it would cost ~$200
Yeah, they said it would be $150 because the Technician would have to come out and install a different box. I think that’s a load too because you should see the hardware they installed initially when I got FIOS. I was reading more on my issue and I think it is a latency issue not a bandwidth issue. So I’m not going to upgrade. Shit they are already charging me almost $80 a month for what I have. I don’t have cable TV either. I did a speed test and my uploads was 82Mbps and downloads was 87Mbps. I tried one of those higher speed packages once when I had Comcast and it didn’t make a difference, but I thought that was just Comcast. I don’t know why I thought Verizon would be any different.
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