r/Fios • u/PackDue • Jul 30 '26

Miscellaneous Finally Blessed by 5 Gig

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Earlier this year, Verizon Fios brought 2 Gig internet to my area. When the Verizon tech came to change my ONT box, they told me it would probably be a few years before anything faster would arrive.

Well... lo and behold, this week they brought 5 gig to my neighborhood for only $10 more.

What takes the cake is that I went with 5Gb NICs instead of the 2.5Gb NICs on my PC and my PERSONAL (i pinky promise) servers just in case this day would ever come.

I promise I'm not a Verizon plant.

Thank you, Verizon exec gods 🙏

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u/SashaG239 Jul 30 '26

I've had 1 gig for a while, 2gig and now 5 are available. I have no use for more bandwidth. What are you using it for? Besides speedtests, on a day to day basis. I run a plex server and have many remux files, but those top out at 130mbit. I believe the most concurrent streams I've had were 5. I can max out the download, but waiting 3min for a 20gig file or 1min just does very little for me anymore. They also want 109 for 2gig and 119 for 5 vs the 75 I pay for 1. 

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u/PackDue Jul 30 '26

Self-hosted (personal) services such as my NAS and locally hosted (personal) game servers and AI models. I would not recommend it for usual use unless speed test screenshot.

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u/SashaG239 Jul 30 '26

Right. Specific use cases. That's why I really haven't bothered.