Noah Vail
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join:2004-12-10
Lorton, VA
 ·RoadRunner Cable
| Bright House NOT listed.
There are more BH customers than FiOS customers. I would only choose FiOS over BH if I could defeat Verizon's customer dissatisfaction measures.
BH is a seperately managed entity from TimeWarner; better managed too. I've seen no evidence of caps, packet shaping, throttling or any other sign of crappyness. Their customer service is about as good as it gets and the price is reasonable if not excellent ($45 7/512 or 8/768 depending.) I have one or two minor outages a year (hurricanes not withstanding).
I've noticed what looks a whole like throttling of Bit Torrent on FiOS. There is also 140+ IP address changes a day (according to dyndns.org) to contend with.
FiOS can be a lot like having a 600ci ride, with a one barrel carb and a red light every block.
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nozzer
join:2004-06-25
Waltham, MA
| said by Noah Vail  :I've noticed what looks a whole like throttling of Bit Torrent on FiOS. There is also 140+ IP address changes a day (according to dyndns.org) to contend with. Bullsh1t, on both counts. No throttling on BT on my FiOS connect.A reasonably well seeded torrent comes down at 2.5MB (thats BYTES) a second. I can leave a couple of torrents overnight and find I've uploaded 25GB by the morning!
My IP address has remained exactly the same since signing to FiOS 2 months ago. So I don't know where you are getting your facts.
Oh, and I pay 44.95 for 20/5. Real 20/5.
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Noah Vail
Premium
join:2004-12-10
Lorton, VA
·RoadRunner Cable
| said by nozzer :Bullsh1t, on both counts. No throttling on BT on my FiOS connect.A reasonably well seeded torrent comes down at 2.5MB (thats BYTES) a second. I can leave a couple of torrents overnight and find I've uploaded 25GB by the morning! My IP address has remained exactly the same since signing to FiOS 2 months ago. So I don't know where you are getting your facts. People who can't stop their behavior, suspect everyone around them of doing the same thing.
That's why it's so ironic you accuse me of not knowing what I'm talking about.
It's cute how you think you know how an ISP operates when you aren't within 1000 miles of the CO that it serves.
Here is an excerpt from an email from dyndns.org concerning a FiOS connection that I use for a VPN endpoint.
"As for 'xxxxxx.dyndns.org', we have actually received a considerable
450+ updates for the host in the past 12 days, but each update used a
different IP address. Because each update sent a different IP, the host
was not blocked. Here are the 25 latest updates:
date ip return useragent
2006-12-05 17:11:10 71.251.79.25 good Vx DDNS client 1.0 / vx@vx.com
2006-12-05 16:50:04 71.251.79.12 good Vx DDNS client 1.0 / vx@vx.com
2006-12-05 16:39:09 71.251.88.57 good Vx DDNS client 1.0 / vx@vx.com
2006-12-05 16:25:54 71.251.94.70 good Vx DDNS client 1.0 / vx@vx.com................."
That actually comes out to 37.5x+ a day so I stand corrected, however I have personally witnessed 12 IP changes/min when trying to establish a VPN via Verizon DSL. I imagine the same policies apply to FiOS.
I'm pretty sure the IP change is triggered by the VPN connection, and maybe other specific incoming traffic.
As for BT throttling, I called it a suspicion, however I had a BT client that operated perfectly for months on FiOS, then about 3 months ago it started dropping connections. I'm pretty good at bringing the routers and BT clients into harmony, but couldn't pull it off here.
Until I find other LOCAL FiOS users w/ the same problem, it's a suspicion.
Well, I'm sure you're special in your way. And I'm sure you have a deep and personal relationship with your FiOS connection, that I wouldn't think to judge. I wish you two much happiness together.
NV
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nozzer
join:2004-06-25
Waltham, MA
1 edit | Your post quite clearly suggests that FiOS "throttles bit torrent", and "changes its IP address many times a day". I've seen nobody else complaining about this on the FiOS forums here.
Your problem sounds localized - i.e. an issue with a conflict behind your ONT on your FiOS connection. FiOS and DSL use totally different DHCP setup, and either your PPoE is disconnecting and reconnecting because of some router misconfiguration, or you've put a switch immediately behind the ONT
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Noah Vail
Premium
join:2004-12-10
Lorton, VA
·RoadRunner Cable
| Regardless whether you've seen a report of rapid IP address changes, it is occurring. I provided evidence as such.
If you're considering the idea that I fabricated the evidence, I recommend therapy.
*sigh*
How, exactly, could a switch trigger a DHCP server to change an IP address?
*sigh*
No, PPoE isn't disconnecting. If that were the case the VPN would drop ~40 times/day and that isn't happening. In any case disconnects generally don't trigger IP changes.
*sigh*
It may well be that packet shaping is a localized effect in this market. Large ISPs tend to locally test user unfriendly, restrictive technologies before they roll them out to the rest of their consumers.
If you're done with your fit of denial we can all move on now.
Unless you just can't let it go.
NV
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