Verizon FIOS isn't worth a thing

Zeke · 12-05-2007, 08:45 AM

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.

Zeke · 12-05-2007, 08:51 AM

It just took 80 seconds to refresh this one post thread.

Scott R · Scott R's Garage

Can you post the results of this speed test?

http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/

nostatic · nostatic's Garage

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)

id10t · 12-05-2007, 08:59 AM

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...

Zeke · 12-05-2007, 09:06 AM

258 kbps > 1804 < using Los Angeles. I'm paying for 1.5 mb

TerryH · TerryH's Garage

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....

Zeke · 12-05-2007, 09:11 AM

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Originally Posted by id10t

...., try changing DNS servers...

That is most likely beyond my realm.

stomachmonkey · 12-05-2007, 09:20 AM

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.

Porsche-O-Phile · Porsche-O-Phile's Garage

If you had a Mac, you wouldn't have this problem.

Scott R · Scott R's Garage

Quote:

Originally Posted by Porsche-O-Phile

If you had a Mac, you wouldn't have this problem.

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?

Mule · 12-05-2007, 09:26 AM

DSL has been bumbling a little lately, even an outage. It seems to be back to normal here.

Zeke · 12-05-2007, 09:29 AM

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....

widebody911 · widebody911's Garage

Quote:

Originally Posted by milt

That is most likely beyond my realm.

Nonsense: http://www.opendns.com/

stomachmonkey · 12-05-2007, 09:53 AM

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Originally Posted by Porsche-O-Phile

If you had a Mac, you wouldn't have this problem.

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.

berettafan · 12-05-2007, 04:45 PM

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.

Zeke · 12-12-2007, 03:32 PM

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.

stomachmonkey · 12-12-2007, 06:59 PM

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Originally Posted by milt

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.

Could be. Wireless networks default to the speed of the slowest device.

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.