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Slowdowns? on FIBER? REALLY?!?!

And what are your speeds to everything else? One service does not measure your speed. Maybe other people are accessing the usenet server you are using and it is getting overtaxed, FiOS cannot keep that from happening.

reply to Wowthatsslow
You can hook up a fire hose to that little spigot outside your house, doesn't mean that spigot will fill that big hose like a fire hydrant would.......

Translation: If the server feeding you is getting overloaded and bogged down by users, no matter how fast your FIOS is, your speeds will slow down.

I see that all the time with different services on my FIOS connection. Downloading ISO's from Microsoft servers simply fly by, while updates from Adobe can slow to a crawl....it all depends on the server pushing the information to you.

welcome to Fios, where you normally have more bandwidth than the servers.

reply to Wowthatsslow
Are you maxing out the number of connections? I would bet my life its not FIOS and it is your usenet provider. What provider are you using? I use astraweb and max out connections to the eu ssl servers with no slowdowns at any time day or night.

I feel what he said. I also notice slowdowns during prime time on my 150M connection. Yes its probably more bandwidth then most sites will provide, but its always the same everywhere during the same times. Makes me then believe its not possible its strictly every single location that slows down for me (Microsoft, Apple, etc).

reply to Wowthatsslow
Last weekend I converted to FIOS. I switched from cable to the 75/35 bundle. I noticed the same problem, namely I see significant slowdowns at night. In my case I see the slowdowns just getting from one web page to another.

I find that speed test shows inconsistent results based on time of day. I might see 82/20 on a wired connection and at the same time I see 30/44 on a wireless connection. (why can a wireless connection upload faster than a wired on)

Last night my browser was timing out just trying to get to the google search screen. I noted that the FIOS TV boxes are all network attached. I wondered if they have a DNS bottleneck. Do they have enough DNS servers to handle the demands of their network as people come home in the evening and start watching TV .

I've been considering configuring the router to use a different server, maybe OpenDNS. I wonder if anyone else has tried something like this?

reply to Wowthatsslow
I know with my connection which is 20/5 Fios (Internet Only) things are different from when I first got Fios few years back. In fact I was the first to get it in the neighborhood which I know that does not make any difference with Fios. When Verizon opened the bandwidth pipes for higher speed packages I then noticed the difference. It must be upstream the bandwidth just is not there to serve everyone at the same time with the higher bandwidth demands during peak times which can occur at anytime not just primetime. Meanwhile at my end I first noticed it when my IPTV boxes (Roku, IPTV box from Sweden and my ITX mini computer which I use for watching streaming media) without reason just stop streaming or go offline intermittantly some days even more. I can surf when this happens I just not been able to pinpoint where the bottleneck happens but it seems to me that someone unplugs a network somewhere then plugs it in after sometime. I know it can't be that since I can surf during the IPTV outage but it might be something with what IPTV uses as transmission I dont know. I am using an Asus RT-N12B1 router with the latest Shibby firmware and operating on the original ONT as well.

reply to Wowthatsslow
dns server could be one issue..

i wonder if he's bpon?

reply to Wowthatsslow
Im using Giganews with their giganews accelerator and Usenet Explorer to view the groups my conenctions are maxxed as is my speed and at 5:55 last night I went from 9.8 to 5.0 and by 10pm I was at a 1.34 but my speed test from speedtest.verizon.net comes up at 81/34

Again why was the cable company able to give me sustained 7.02 megs down any time of day or night but FIOS can't?

Since your speedtests are fine on-net during the USENET slowdowns, the issue is off of Verizon's network and out of their control. Do you have a way to test a file transfer from another site during your USENET slowdowns?

reply to Wowthatsslow
Yes I forgot to mention even tho its not the best site to test from I tried downloading a 4 gig demo from fileplanet and 1.3 was the top speed and right now I'm at a 9.9

If anybody has a better site to test from I'm open to suggestions

reply to Wowthatsslow
I'm noticing it ever since I upgraded to the newer speeds - Just in average browsing pages and images will suffer major slowdowns.

I tried on multiple PCs, and rebooted the router - happens multiple times over multiple days. I never had this problem before the speed upgrade.

I do a speed test and it says 50/10 (don't know why such low upload), so I don't know if it's just the router and connections or what - I use OpenDNS like always, so it shouldn't be DNS.
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Im getting slowdowns also but this has happened before it lasted about a week and then fixed itself and now its starting again. im on the 25/15 plan and downloading a file from my work server used to get 28mbit now im lucky if i get 75kb/s im waiting this one out to see if it corrects itself like last time. At the same time of the slowdown. I still get full speed to certain speedtest.net servers but others Im lucky if i get 1mbit. So seems like there is a bummed route somewhere.

Not to say these thing dont exist as i know they do but im very much in the camp that during the 6-9pm EST time the internet as a whole reaches peak congestion and that this is a server side not client side issue.

I've rarely had any issue though during this time but purposely avoid it for any transfers or large downloads.

reply to Wowthatsslow
I've only had issues recently. Do these Denial of Service attacks that have hit the banks and the federal government recently have anything to do with these slowdowns? That is the only unusual thing I've read about that has been going on recently. And it did coincide with slowdowns I saw with my 150/65 tier.

reply to Wowthatsslow
There is a good chance it is the usenet provider. I get slowdowns on mine more during peak hours I think due to I/O load on their servers. I also notice the speed can vary a ton from file to file. I use giganews and astraweb. There have been a few cases of where I have seen slow downs but its pretty likely that its on the other end because Verizon is a tier 1 transit provider.

For example during peak hours I see bad latency and slow speeds to my dad's place on Charter. Charter/VZ directly connect to each-other through peering but I would be surprised if Charter is not payiing VZ for the peering considering the difference in their class of network. Its likely that Charter's port to VZ is being saturated and they don't pay more for another link because its handling traffic ok during off-peak hours.
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reply to Wowthatsslow
So I get an automated call from Verizon telling me that the problem was fixed because it was something to do with MY hardware... Right thats a crock because nothing has changed in the last week. Anyway so its 6:30 and my speeds are jumping around from 6megs to 8.5megs on usenet and from Smith6612's link for Gamefront I'm hitting a 9.9 so is this 6 days of fluke slow speeds or 1 night of fluke fast speeds?

And just for $hits and giggles I'm hitting a 10 on fileplanet.....