http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Lumberton-NJ-What-to-Expect-from-2515-Plan-23079314 en Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:43:31 EDT Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:43:31 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Lumberton-NJ-What-to-Expect-from-2515-Plan-23121396 said by guppy_fish:

VZ posters have said otherwise, there is only one provisioned speed, 25/25.

The 15 up could be a host of things, out of the box PC's, Vista & Win7 all need tweaks to work above 15mbs, also wired vs wireless

since your local, try this

»www.rapidsys.com/speedtest/

I get 27/24 down/up from Lakeland
I'm a network engineer with 26 years of experience. I know my way around the TCP/IP stack quite well.

The 15/5 plan is not configured as 25/25. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Lumberton-NJ-What-to-Expect-from-2515-Plan-23121396 Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:45:19 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Lumberton-NJ-What-to-Expect-from-2515-Plan-23121285
The 15 up could be a host of things, out of the box PC's, Vista & Win7 all need tweaks to work above 15mbs, also wired vs wireless

since your local, try this

»www.rapidsys.com/speedtest/

I get 27/24 down/up from Lakeland]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Lumberton-NJ-What-to-Expect-from-2515-Plan-23121285 Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:34:36 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Lumberton-NJ-What-to-Expect-from-2515-Plan-23120838 said by guppy_fish:

but since it came out as a tier, both 15/5 and 25/15 are really 25/25 circuit.
One small correction.

25/15 - appears to be provisioned as 25/25
15/5 - appears to be provisioned as 25/15, not 25/25

(speaking as a 15/5 subscriber who regularly gets speedtest results in the 25/15 range)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Lumberton-NJ-What-to-Expect-from-2515-Plan-23120838 Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:23:37 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Lumberton-NJ-What-to-Expect-from-2515-Plan-23118232
Actually, according to the bandwidth graph in my router, typically I will see somewhere between 26 and 27, but the ping time start going up and my connection feels rather sluggish even for simple web browsing if it's pushed that hard. It's quite comfortable at 25 Mb upstream. This is much like the old 20/20 that I had, it could actually get up around 22, but was much more pleasant at 20.

Now I just hope that the over provisioning will last until they offer a faster speed tier, which I imagine they must be working on. I don't see any other reason they would give you so much more speed than you are paying for, except to test out the network without actually committing themselves.

Ed]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Lumberton-NJ-What-to-Expect-from-2515-Plan-23118232 Fri, 02 Oct 2009 03:32:23 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Lumberton-NJ-What-to-Expect-from-2515-Plan-23080914 said by The Master:

apparently you get considerably more then you are paid for upstream. It seems I've also read the exact amount you get may vary according to location?
In areas where TV service is provisioned out of same CO they usually pad the data for additional bandwidth to be used by VOD and IMG offband on the video circuit.
But don't expect to get higher speeds than what you're provisioned for. If you pay for 20/20, and are getting speeds to that spec, you can't complain.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Lumberton-NJ-What-to-Expect-from-2515-Plan-23080914 Fri, 25 Sep 2009 09:35:53 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Lumberton-NJ-What-to-Expect-from-2515-Plan-23080631
If 35/20 is available there it might be cost effective and satisfy your needs.

]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Lumberton-NJ-What-to-Expect-from-2515-Plan-23080631 Fri, 25 Sep 2009 08:22:39 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Lumberton-NJ-What-to-Expect-from-2515-Plan-23079492
Very few locations or even computers without tweaks can utilize the upload bandwidth, this combined with the speed test sites that don't have symmetric data sets all combine to the variations reported.

P2P also has its own issues, they seed and distribute to not overload a single peer, if there are to many seeders, one will not upload to the maximum possible, again, its not the limit of the provisioned circuit.

I have 25/15 and for giggles, have joined popular torrents and pushed for over 4 hours 2.5Mb/sec, I also speed test to a local server and get 26mb down 24mb up, but only on my XP pc's, win7 has issues on uploads.

I'm trying to be detailed in this post to show some of the reasons for the variations reported, but in all cases, I feel its NOT fios, its one of the zillions other possible things that limit our service which to be frank is nothing short of what data centers have, not most home users

For you, 25/15 is 25/25 today, if you want some guaranty it will always be this, I don't thing anything can meet that, even 20/20 as Verizon can at anytime take that away if your not in contract

One thing, I'm on Ethernet with a DIR955 for the primary router, not the Actiontech is is reported to have some serious issues with P2P and poor wireless, I do have a pair of Westels for the TV and a MOCA bridge for extended wifi and network to the TV and they work great, better "G" performance than the DIR955]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Lumberton-NJ-What-to-Expect-from-2515-Plan-23079492 Thu, 24 Sep 2009 22:47:21 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Lumberton-NJ-What-to-Expect-from-2515-Plan-23079314
I am a heavy P2P user, and upstream bandwidth is extremely important to me. As I see it, I have two choices.

The first, is to do absolutely nothing. From what I have read here, if I do nothing, my service will not change when the contract runs out, but I will lose the bundle discount. I believe that amounts to about a $25 a month raise, which is not great but I can tolerate it. Choosing the 25/15 plan would add about $10 to my current cost anyway, so I think doing nothing is only $15 more than that.

My other option would be to subscribe to the 25/15 plan. That gives me an extra 5 Mb down, which means absolutely nothing to me. It officially takes away 5 Mb on the upstream, which would be 25% speed reduction, which is something I really don't like. However, I see a lot of comments about this "fluff", where apparently you get considerably more then you are paid for upstream. It seems I've also read the exact amount you get may vary according to location? If this is the case, does anybody have an idea what I would get here in Lumberton? Would I truly get 25/15, 25/20, 25/25, or something else? Anybody near here willing to share their experience?

Also, a question for some of you folks who have been experiencing 25 Mb upstream on the 25/15 plan. I seen the screenshots from the speed test sites you folks have posted, but I'm wondering how that matches up with reality. In other words, has anybody who's plan tested out at 25/25 actually run an upload for at least several hundred megabytes and seen that speed in a real world test?

I appreciate any help you folks could give me, I want to keep the maximum upstream speed possible. Yes, I know I could sign up for the 50/20, but considering I don't really care about the downstream, that plan is a very expensive way for me to get what I want.

Thanks
Ed]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Lumberton-NJ-What-to-Expect-from-2515-Plan-23079314 Thu, 24 Sep 2009 22:13:24 EDT