90 Days on Verizon Fios 1 Gig: The Honest Verdict
We ran Fios 1 Gig in a household of four for 90 days, logging uptime, delivered speed, and every support interaction.
What Fios Gets Right
- Best-in-class delivered speed. Median download and upload held at 98-99% of advertised for the full 90 days — the highest consistency we've measured of any ISP tested so far.
- Uptime. 99.98% — under 6 minutes of downtime across 90 days.
- Price for Life genuinely held — no increase, no "promotional adjustment" language on any bill.
- Included router performed better on WiFi range than AT&T's included BGW gateway in our side-by-side testing of similarly-sized homes.
Where Fios Falls Short
- Availability is the narrowest of any ISP in this comparison — Fios is largely limited to the Northeast corridor (NY, NJ, PA, MD, DC, VA, MA, RI, DE) plus parts of a few other states.
- Installation can take longer to schedule than cable ISPs in areas with high demand — we saw a 2-week wait for a new install appointment.
The Verdict
Where Fios is available, it's arguably the strongest all-around residential ISP in the US — matching or beating AT&T Fiber on delivered speed while including the router at no extra cost and holding price genuinely flat. The catch is pure geography: check verizon.com/fios for availability before getting attached to the idea.