Spotted in Doc Searls Weblog:

For what it's worth, at our apartment near Boston I have a choice of Comcast, RCN and Verizon FiOS. I use FiOS because I get 20Mb of symmetrical service from a fiber optic line to the house, minimal technical restriction (they block port 80, but so does everybody) and rock-solid service. Far as I know Verizon doesn't care how much data moves in either direction from my house. Comcast doesn't compete with that. At least not yet.

I ignored FIOS last year when it moved in, because they weren't offering me anything Comcast wasn't. Now? Well, 20 mbps symmetric sounds pretty good, and - since I'm in the midst of uploading a 1.5 gb file so a tech support guy can help me figure out a problem - the 250 gb limit is looking smaller than you might think. Heck, the videos I took at ESUG run to over 1 GB has mp4 files if I produce them at highest quality, and I have to upload all of them - if higher bandwidth were more common, I probably wouldn't drop them down to 300 MB.

That 250 gb limit sounds like a lot before you start looking at how big HD video is, and how inexpensive the HD camcorders are becoming. Add in video on demand, and it starts looking downright puny...

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