How fast is Verizon FiOS internet speeds?

Just wondering if it's worth the cost to get Verizon FiOS. How fast are the download and upload speeds?

Verizon FiOS internet speeds are fast, but like with everything expect to pay for your speed.

Their "Good" level is 15 Mbps down and 5 Mbps up
"Better" is 50/25
"Best" is 75/35
"Best +" is 150/65
"Ultimate" is 300/65

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They are among the fastest residential service available today, but 300Mbps is not available in all areas. Only areas that have GPON support the 300Mbps speed. I don't think BPON areas can do 150Mbps either.

Originally Posted by n2rj

They are among the fastest residential service available today, but 300Mbps is not available in all areas. Only areas that have GPON support the 300Mbps speed. I don't think BPON areas can do 150Mbps either.

What does GPON and BPON stand for?

Originally Posted by dkreichen1968

What does GPON and BPON stand for?

To answer my own question.

A passive optical network (PON) is a point-to-multipoint, fiber to the premises network architecture in which unpowered optical splitters are used to enable a single optical fiber to serve multiple premises, typically 16-128. A PON consists of an optical line terminal (OLT) at the service provider's central office and a number of optical network units (ONUs) near end users. A PON reduces the amount of fiber and central office equipment required compared with point-to-point architectures. A passive optical network is a form of fiber-optic access network...

Starting in 1995, work on fiber to the home architectures was done by the Full Service Access Network (FSAN) working group, formed by major telecommunications service providers and system vendors.[1] The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) did further work, and standardized on two generations of PON. The older ITU-T G.983 standard is based on Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), and has therefore been referred to as APON (ATM PON). Further improvements to the original APON standard – as well as the gradual falling out of favor of ATM as a protocol – led to the full, final version of ITU-T G.983 being referred to more often as broadband PON, or BPON. A typical APON/BPON provides 622 megabits per second (Mbit/s) (OC-12) of downstream bandwidth and 155 Mbit/s (OC-3) of upstream traffic, although the standard accommodates higher rates.

The ITU-T G.984 (GPON) standard represents a boost, compared to BPON, in both the total bandwidth and bandwidth efficiency through the use of larger, variable-length packets. Again, the standards permit several choices of bit rate, but the industry has converged on 2.488 gigabits per second (Gbit/s) of downstream bandwidth, and 1.244 Gbit/s of upstream bandwidth. GPON Encapsulation Method (GEM) allows very efficient packaging of user traffic with frame segmentation.

By mid-2008, Verizon had installed over 800,000 lines. British Telecom, Mobily, Etisalat, and AT&T are in advanced trials in Britain, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and the USA, respectively. GPON networks have now been deployed in numerous networks across the globe, and the trends indicate higher growth in GPON than other PON technologies.

G.987 defined 10G-PON with 10 Gbit/s downstream and 2.5 Gbit/s upstream – framing is "G-PON like" and designed to coexist with GPON devices on the same network.

Passive optical network - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

There are also areas that Verizon does VDSL, like U-Verse. Those won't support fast speeds either.