Chicks is the name for either male or female babies when talking about them as a whole. Baby rooster chicks are called cockerals.. Baby hen chicks are called pullets.. You can order all cockerals, all pullets or mixed (straight-run, which means, as they are hatched) which is about 50/50.
Comcast Internet to hit 305Mbps, 5 megabits faster than Verizon FiOS. Customers on 25 and 50 Mbps will get speed doubled at no extra charge. Not long after Verizon doubled its highest FiOS Internet speeds to 300 megabits per second, Comcast today announced a brand-new speed tier that will hit 305Mbps. Coincidentally, the new Xfinity Platinum Internet will initially be available in the Northeast US, where Verizon FiOS is also prevalent.
Part of the Data transmission glossary: FiOS (Fiber Optic Service) is a fiber to the premises (FTTP) telecommunications service offered by Verizon to consumers in the United States. The word fios is Irish for knowledge and the FiOS acronym is a trademark of Verizon. FTTP, also called fiber to the home (FTTH), is the installation and use of optical fiber from a central point directly to individual buildings. A typical FiOS package includes high-speed Internet access along with cable TV and basic telephone service. For consumer use, FiOS Internet access is available at downstream speeds of up to 30 megabits per second (Mbps) and upstream speeds of up to 5 Mbps.