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Verizon FIOS isn't worth a thing
I closed Mozilla a minute ago after waiting over a minute to refresh a thread page here. It's been slow since the 2nd week. Same as my old 700 KB DSL.
The TV part works good. Still, AFA as the NET goes, I think I wasted my money. I even went to the trouble of cleaning up the computer as much as I could. FIOS seems like another hype to me. What I'd pay for a T1 line to a residence I shouldn't say. But I'm so envious of the people in offices I see with fast Internet. Man, they can open a page in milliseconds. I've never opened a page in less than 5 seconds. Pictures load a line at a time, even with this BS FIOS. So, of those of you pining for a fast connection, don't be fooled by Verizon. BTW, it took 8 seconds for this message to post. |
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It just took 80 seconds to refresh this one post thread.
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there are a lot of things that could be responsible...from the system to the site to configurations. Often DNS issues can slow things to a crawl. I couldn't even load the bbs earlier this am.
I do like academia for some things: Download Speed: 7002 kbps (875.3 KB/sec transfer rate) Upload Speed: 9233 kbps (1154.1 KB/sec transfer rate) |
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Rule out your computer, and boot with a Linux live cd like Ubuntu. If that still seems slow, try changing DNS servers... I know the one my ISP provies sucks, so I run my own caching-only server at the house. Takes a second for the first request, but then it is cached and goes quite fast...
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258 kbps > 1804 < using Los Angeles. I'm paying for 1.5 mb
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Don't use this BB as a stopwatch today.. it's slowwwwww.
If you want to measure throughput go to www.dslreports.com and use their speed tests. edit: the test site scott posted is the same thing.... Last edited by TerryH; 12-05-2007 at 09:12 AM.. |
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Milt, I have FIOS in NY and for me it's way faster than the dedicated line at my office.
Was d/l'ng 4 gb iso files from Novell and got almost a full 1 mb per second. Your bandwidth is affected by both ends and also the traffic in between.
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If you had a Mac, you wouldn't have this problem.
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Yea Mac's never have these issues.
![]() Here is a good starting place: Control panel > network connections > right click on your active network connection > properties > configure > advanced > Speed & Duplex What is it set to?
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DSL has been bumbling a little lately, even an outage. It seems to be back to normal here.
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OK, enough of the Mac stuff. If I go into hock and buy a goddamn Mac and it doesn't perform like a banshee every second, I'm gonna personally come over and rip every Mac owners connections clean out their.... well....
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Nonsense: http://www.opendns.com/
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I see the sarcastic green but seriously, Milt needs help.
Let's not turn this into like the last time he reached out. And yes I am guilty of helping that one degrade and I am not happy about it. I like Milt, he's a good guy so let's keep it on track for him.
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milt there was a thread about this stuff on dorkiphus.com. a verizon guy was on there and chimed in a bit. i don't know how to link but if you check it out maybe he can help?
dorkiphus is the md/va porsche board and is worth a visit anyways.
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Bringing this back up. Someone said that my wireless adapter may not be up to "speed." I guess I'll check into that. Today, I'm running almost 6 mb download. Better. I'd hate to think I'm paying for the speed that can't ever be attained.
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Quote:
G came out in 2003 so if your box is 3-4 years old it probably has a B adaptor. Verizon would have dropped a G router.
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