H0NEYD0Premium
join:2006-03-14
Tampa, FL | [modem/router] Why doesn't release/renew work and why 7616 -> 52 I have had horrid difficulties with Verizon DSL 3.1 to 7 Mb/s service in the past two months. I've gone through a Westell 7500, D-Link 270B, and now have an Actiontec GT784WN. It seems that changing the DSLAM in the CO combined with the Actiontec GT784WN on my end was the ultimate fix.
Sadly, though after a few days of tremendous speed improvement following the ultimate fix (5300 Kb/sec at dslreports.com/speedtest) someone or something seems to be "optimizing" the speed down instead of up. I notice the DSL syncs up at 5216 when it used to sync up at 7616/800. In addition, I seem to have an unchangeable IP address now.
With the Westell 7500, I could hit release, watch the Internet light go out, hit reboot, and gain a different IP address after the modem rebooted. Now, even turning the modem off, unpluging it for a fw hours, and then turning it back on, result in the same DHCP (yes WAN side) IP Address.
I have spent so many hours, literally hours, waiting on hold with Verizon online support only to start again and again with "Tell me which lights are on...." that I have gone absolutely nuts.
Tonight I asked about the speed drop and got the age old answer, "Well, 3400 Kb/sec IS inside 3.1 to 7 MB/s." And "Why do you want to change IP addresses?" I tried to explain that after a posting publicly in a forum (a forum like here or political or health related forums) where comments might draw attention I might want the privacy of not having the same IP address all the time. I was then told that the IP address was controlled by Verizon and I shouldn't post copyrighted material.
So I pretty much give up trying to make myself understood to VOL and thought I'd ask here, why can't I change IP addresses anymore, and why are they throttling down my connection to the lowest speed in the tier. According to DSL tech who was here awhile back, (I pulled the info from my browser history)
Retrieve circuit info from AAISCS Known loop length was 3500FT
I should be close enough to the CO for better than 3400 Kb/sec. |
