the only thing limiting the speed is not the end users equipment, but rather the service provider who caps the speed. It’s the same with cable. Remember the old school hacks you could do to the old cable modems to up the speed to some ungodly rate? Does anyone know the actual speed of the cable lines coming into a neighborhood? It would be neat to know.
FIOS is cool and very affordable for what you get. It is funny how everytime something newer comes out, everyone jumps on it’s nuts though. We’ll see how it goes once it’s been around for a few years.