jvmorris
I Am The Man Who Was Not There.
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join:2001-04-03
Reston, VA
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Re: [southeast] What's involved in switching back?
My LAN card (on the desktop machine) is not part of the motherboard. Furthermore, I have great problems believing that my laptop has coincidentally failed at the same time -- unless it's something that the Verizon FIOS connection itself has done.
I've done this with only one machine online (physically connected) at a time. And, in the case of the laptop, I've done it both wired and wireless.
Again, I think I really just want my Verizon DSL connection back.
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JohnA
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Pittsburgh, PA
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If you're able to speedtest that close to 20/5, then there's likely nothing wrong with your connection. The Verizon speedtest was not accurate when you had DSL, nor is it now. what does speakeasy.com, Washington server return for speeds?
All downloads are subject to the speed available on the serving end. If they can't fill your connection, you can't get clese to 2.5MBps.
Have you run some tracerts, and line quality tests from here, to see if there are hangups in your routing. |
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jvmorris
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Reston, VA
1 edit | said by JohnA  :If you're able to speedtest that close to 20/5, then there's likely nothing wrong with your connection. The Verizon speedtest was not accurate when you had DSL, nor is it now. what does speakeasy.com, Washington server return for speeds? That test (agilityman00) is currently the only test that comes close to 20/5. The Speakeasy.net test (Washington, DC server) shows 384 kbps down/ 3980 kbps UP at the moment; much in line with what I was finding when I started this thread. (And that's the problem.) Verizon tests were accurate when I had DSL.
All downloads are subject to the speed available on the serving end. If they can't fill your connection, you can't get clese to 2.5MBps. Ahhh, I've been running these tests since Tuesday now. When I say 20/5 (subscribed performance), I mean 20Mbps download/5Mbps upload, not 2.5MBps (in either direction).
Have you run some tracerts, and line quality tests from here, to see if there are hangups in your routing.
Yes, that's where I started.
And I think you're still ignoring the facts that started this thread:
!) Am increase in time to check Verizon e-mail from a few seconds to two minutes, even when there are no e-mails to download.
2) 10 minutes to download a 10 MB download of Verizon's PC Check.
3) The sudden loss of capability to view youtube videos -- by which I mean I'm lucky if I can see ten seconds of a three minute video at a time without the system having to pause to download the next ten seconds! I've monitored these downloads in the Task Manager Networking monitor -- I'm only get 0.03% (yes, three one hundredths of one percent!) usage of my bandwidth. On Verizon DSL, it would be more on the order of 30-40% of capacity and run smoothly.
And again, this degradation didn't become apparent until four days after Verizon FIOS was installed, and boy was it obvious when it did!
Addendum:Unless I mistype, I'm very careful to distinguish between bps and Bps. If I see a mistake, I tend to edit my posts to correct it.
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JohnA
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Pittsburgh, PA
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20Mbps (speed) would yield 2.5MBps (download). Not important.
Have they tested your AT thoroughly? I'd point the finger there first, and next at CO equipment. If they haven't escalated you to network people on the phone, hopefully the direct forum people can force exposure of the cause. You do need a tech visit, if they haven't done that yet. |
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jvmorris
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Reston, VA
| said by JohnA :20Mbps (speed) would yield 2.5MBps (download). Not important. Okay, so you WERE using 2.5 MBps correctly. However, it's sort of important to me when, in fact, it's taking me ten minutes for a 10 MB download, not four seconds.
Have they tested your AT thoroughly? They say they have, they've even used Remote Access and reset the username/password in the process. I sat here and watched this run on this PC.
I'd point the finger there first, and next at CO equipment. If they haven't escalated you to network people on the phone, hopefully the direct forum people can force exposure of the cause. You do need a tech visit, if they haven't done that yet. There has been no obvious escalation to network people or second tier support. I've never ended up talking to a different person on the phone other than the person who started the conversation.
This downgrade of service is very difficult for me to cope with; there are times when the download speeds are no better than what I had on dial-up! This involves applications that I do not care to discuss publicly.
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Joseph V. Morris |
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NJFIOS
join:2008-04-13
Point Pleasant Beach, NJ | dont give up on fios, this is not the norm, fios is never slower than dsl, keep calling and complaining, tell them you want to switch to ethernet could be a coax trble in the house or a co trble. point is don't give up. |
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jvmorris
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Reston, VA
| The FIOS setup is becoming unusable. The wireless functionality in the ActionTec doesn't work anymore, not even if I bring the laptop downstairs and set it up right beside the router.
Speedtest.verizon doesn't work AT ALL anymore, never even starts up.
I was seeing occasional messages of excessive packet loss from the laptop (even when sitting beside the router); now it doesn't work at all, anywhere.
At the very least I need a replacement router.
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Joseph V. Morris |
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jvmorris
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Reston, VA
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said by NJFIOS :dont give up on fios, this is not the norm, fios is never slower than dsl, keep calling and complaining, tell them you want to switch to ethernet could be a coax trble in the house or a co trble. point is don't give up. I would keep calling and complaining, but it seems they've now got a solution for that -- don't take the phone calls (or maybe the phone connection is screwed up, too).
If Verizon FIOS is faster than Verizon DSL, I wouldn't know and would just have to take your word for it.
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Joseph V. Morris |
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jvmorris
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Reston, VA | Well, I just got disconnected, so I guess I wasn't far off.
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