We have a mix of customers from 100 meg fiber w/SLA's from a Tier 1 down to DSL. The majority of my customers have moved to FIOS 20/5 or 50/20 and it works quite well. I cannot think of any customer who has been down other than power issues or their actiontec router and the bandwidth while not guaranteed always tests quite high.
Of course when you are talking about an SMB with 10 users if they are getting 40 vs 50...not really a big problem.. :) Their router..actiontec...piece of garbage... That's the only piece. Put in a real firewall and experience troublefree internet. You don't have to use their router at all. They will give you an Ethernet handoff. Greg From: Chyka, Robert [mailto:bch...@medaille.edu] Sent: Friday, June 25, 2010 9:14 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Verizon FIOS for Small Business Is anyone using FIOS for a small office? I have a side job that came up for a medical building. They have 32 users and 3 people that will need to VPN into the network from remote satelite offices. I know FIOS bandwidth isn't guaranteed but will I be safe getting 35meg/35meg or 50/20 for this amount of users that need internet/vpn access? I have a cisco 5505 that will sit behind the FIOS router. Thanks for the input. Bob ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
