Big news from Verizon today: they've expanded their top FiOS Internet speeds of up to 50 megabits-per-second downstream, and up to 20 megabits-per-second upstream, to ALL of their service footprint. So, anywhere you can get FiOS, you now can get 50 down, 20 up.

But what if you don't know your bits from your bytes and want to know, in plain English, what all that crazy Internet speed really means?...

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For once, "fine print" ended up actually heralding something great...

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Check out the speed test results posted by blogger, philanthropist and fellow Rolling Stones fan Fragzem today....

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Tech blogger Mathew Collins of onovia.com did comparative speed tests of Comcast and FiOS....

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It can be almost as annoying as one of those math problems from high school -- you know the ones, where two nimrods with nothing better to do each get on a train, and you have to calculate where and when they meet, or lose their luggage, or something:This file is 12 MB, and my download speed is 15 Mbps, so it should download in... eight tenths of a second?

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Great googly-moogly! Hearing the phrase "20/20 symmetrical" is one thing, but seeing it in action really is something else...

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Verizon announced today that it would begin offering 20/20 symmetrical FiOS Internet service to parts of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, with similar services available soon in the other 13 states where FiOS is available. If "20/20" makes you think only of eye charts and contact lenses, allow me to explain why this announcement is such a huge deal regarding your family's online experience, and the state of American broadband in general...

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