So, I just wanted to give a little shout out to Verizon for an exceptional product: FiOS. I just got FiOS at my home, but our office has had FiOS internet for several months now. On the TV side, the image quality is significantly better, brighter and crisper and that's on a glass tube TV! I was very happy to see the improvement over Directv. Also, their menu interface is a lot cleaner, and crisper than that of Directv or Comcast. It feels more like a computer interface than a console for the TV. There are also some great items like widgets (get traffic and weather on screen) and of course On Demand. We have the Premium package which includes 200 channels, and it's cheaper than Comcast and Directv.

Their internet is pretty darn sweet as well. At the office we have a business package of 5 static IPs, 20MB down and 5MB up. Amazingly fast, in mere seconds we have service packs downloaded. And it's stable and very reliable. The hardware they setup is also great. Wireless, firewall, static NATs: what more can a guy ask for? Our home connection has 5MB down and 2MB up. We use to have DSL and that was painfully slow. Using SpeakEasy.net Speed Test our home connetion gets about 4000KB down, DSL got under 1000KB. Also, another benefit of Verizon is that they will install to anyone within reach. I live down a dirt road and Verizon had to run new wires for FiOS 2900 feet to get it to my house, and it's still blazing fast. DSL slowed down a lot over the long distance. Comcast wanted $3,000 to run their wires down to our house!

I love Verizon's FiOS services. I know of other residential and business customers who LOVE it as well. That's it for now.