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guppy_fish
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join:2003-12-09
Lakeland, FL
·Verizon FIOS

reply to ossysprog
Re: This is nuts-FIOS Internet is sloooooooow

Speedtest.net uses many different ISP for testing, there is no load balancing and its a complete crap shoot what you will get for reported performance. I doubt most of the speed test servers used can handle FIOS speeds with any accuracy

try a www.speakeasy.net/speedtest and select a location near you

JohnnyY
Premium
join:2008-10-16
Redlands, CA


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Count me in. I've had FIOS for two years now and since 10/4 I've been getting horrible download speed. Called tech support and a couple of trouble tickets were issued but I'm not even sure if the higher level tech even bother checking into it because everytime I called in I was told there's no updates. The following are the actual speed I'm getting:

XP SP3 ISO from Microsoft.com @ 68KB/Sec
Drivers from ati.com @ 85KB/Sec
JAVA from java.com @ 75KB/Sec
Acrobat reader from Adobe.com @ 80KB/Sec
Binary download from news.giganews.com @ 45KB/Sec

But strangely it's not across the board. I did manage to find a couple of download sites where I'm downloading at my max:

Drivers from Nvidia.com @ 2.3MB/Sec
Drivers from downloads.trendnet.com @ 2.3MB/Sec

I have the 20 down / 20 up plan by the way.

Update 10/18/08:
Downloading drivers from Nvidia.com is now at only about 30KB/Sec

I agreed totally with jvmorris that it must be something wrong within the Verizon network.


AmandaWalker

@verizon.net

Same here, in Reston, VA. 50/20 service, which has worked great since install on 9/29 until 10/17. Starting 10/17, upload speed is still 20, download speed is 0.3Mbps according to Verizon's own speed test (and is about what I'm getting from the rest of the Internet). Rebooted the router and ONT, no change.

For the first two weeks, I've been very impressed with FIOS, but this is pretty craptastic.


houkouonchi

join:2002-07-22
Corona, CA
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reply to guppy_fish
said by guppy_fish See Profile :

Speedtest.net uses many different ISP for testing, there is no load balancing and its a complete crap shoot what you will get for reported performance. I doubt most of the speed test servers used can handle FIOS speeds with any accuracy

try a www.speakeasy.net/speedtest and select a location near you
Most of the speedtest.net servers are on gigabit and can easily handle FIOS speeds.

Stoic, speedtest.net is a good test site IMHO but it doesn't really give you any info for troubleshooting. Can you run a traceroute to ndt.dhspeedtest.com and go to »ndt.dhspeedtest.com and run a speed test there and paste the results as well as what you get by cliking "more details" and "statistics"?

I think that would help to see if the problem is on Verizon's end or not.
--
Chugging along on 2x 6016/768k DSL Extreme DSL lines and one 6016/768 ATT DSL DIrect line as well as one 10mb/1mb Charter cable line for a combined total of just over 26 meg download and 3 meg up (after overhead). yay!


Heritageguy

@verizon.net

reply to AmandaWalker
Re: This is nuts-FIOS Internet is sloooooooow - Router Down

I'm having the same problem. Very slow downloads to some locations and normal service to others for the past 3 days. Verizon support was clueless. I found and ran Internet Traffic Report (»www.internettrafficreport.com/namerica.htm) and found that there is a router down in Vienna, VA (mae-east.wenet.com). I'm guessing that any local or national traffic that normally uses that router from my location (near Vienna) is being rerouted and delayed.

As an example, any access north, west, and far south is normal speed. Any local access is delayed. For some reason upload speeds do not seem to be affected.

The site is currently showing router outages or slowdowns in Vienna VA, Wisconsin, and Colorado (Greenwood Village).

HerbW

join:2008-10-18
Herndon, VA

reply to houkouonchi
Re: This is nuts-FIOS Internet is sloooooooow

C:\>tracert ndt.dhspeedtest.com

Tracing route to ndt.dhspeedtest.com [208.97.141.21] over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms Wireless_Broadband_Router.home [192.168.1.1]
2 2 ms 1 ms 1 ms 96.231.199.1
3 3 ms 3 ms 2 ms G11-1-661.LCR-06.WASHDC.verizon-gni.net [130.81.104.180]
4 4 ms 3 ms 3 ms P15-3.LCR-01.PTLDOR.verizon-gni.net [130.81.28.146]
5 * 5 ms 5 ms 0.so-5-1-0.XT2.DCA5.ALTER.NET [152.63.36.213]
6 83 ms 79 ms 83 ms 0.so-6-0-0.XL2.LAX15.ALTER.NET [152.63.112.61]
7 82 ms 78 ms 82 ms POS7-0-0.GW3.LAX15.ALTER.NET [152.63.112.109]
8 80 ms 83 ms 80 ms internapGIGE-gw.customer.alter.net [157.130.236.110]
9 83 ms 79 ms 80 ms border20.po1-20g-bbnet1.lax.pnap.net [216.52.255.37]
10 140 ms 241 ms 166 ms newdream-8.border20.lax.pnap.net [216.52.220.146]
11 83 ms 79 ms 83 ms gameserver.houkouonchi.jp [208.97.141.21]

Trace complete.
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