Director Michael Bay demonstrates how “awesome” Verizon FiOS Internet upload speeds are in this commercial.

Upload speeds are important for good videoconferencing because the quality of your two-way conversation is limited by the weakest link which is usually one party’s Internet upstream bandwidth.

I have the FiOS 15/2 Mbps plan which is 15 Mbps download speed and 2 Mbps upload which I find is plenty fast enough for Skype Video, iChat, SightSpeed and ooVoo.

I could upgrade my FiOS service to 15/15 and get the full 15 Mbps upstream but until I’m ready for a high-definition telepresence suite, I don’t think I could take advantage of that bandwidth for videoconferencing.

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