Verizon’s FiOS Customers to Receive Upload Speeds That Match Their Current Download

You may have seen the ads as of late regarding Verizon Rewards program. If you were distracted by the guy being taken away by birds in the commercial, Verizon’s message was that they will match your download speeds with your upload speeds. Now, for anyone trying to run a small business or an avid gamer – this is huge.

Maybe you didn’t know it, but yes, your internet connection has different speeds for uploads and downloads. Without getting too much into network architecture and how data transfer actually works, just know that ISP companies set the default setting to download faster than upload, as most people have more of a need to download information. If you are running a VPN Server or perhaps sharing a video with friends – you may notice that your computer’s speed isn’t nearly as impressive as when you download something or stream a movie.

Now, allow me to preface this by stating that this free upgrade seems totally worth it, so far. As commonplace with Verizon, I’m waiting for a surprise technicality on my next bill. However, if you do go through the two second steps to match your upload speeds to your download speeds, don’t be too surprised when you see something like this:

Yeah,

To my surprise, I’m paying for 15MBPS, yet I’m receiving over 24MBPS. Which is pretty cool, but it’s not what Verizon’s Rewards program is selling. They are selling to match what you are paying for. Probably should have mentioned that in your ads, Verizon.

Then again, one really can’t complain – I’m getting more than I’m paying for plus the added bonus of increased upload speeds. All in all, a pretty good deal.

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Syncing Firefox and IE Favorites

Hey friends,
quick thing I wanted to share. For quite some time I have recommended that my clients use Firefox instead of IE due to its numerous security vulnerabilities. Firefox was so much faster and more stable than IE6 and 7. But IE has really cleaned up its act with IE 8 and 9. However with so many great apps available for Firefox, i find myself jumping between browsers and it can be frustrating to search both favorites and bookmarks in an attempt to find something that I KNOW i saved before. In my never ending quest to sync everything under the sun, i found this nifty solution:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/plainoldfavorites/
Plain Old Favories. Another neat Firefox Add-on that syncs your bookmarks and favorites automatically. Give it a try and see if it's what you've been looking for!