Verizon FiOS → Re: [net] FIOS latency problems (Montgomery County

I flat don't believe the previous post. No-one gets 2 and 4 ms pings to anywhere other than the local LAN.

16ms to your gateway with fios is NOT within spec. I get 2ms pings to my gateway. and the hop right after that, normally i get 4ms-3ms pings to it, and was for 4 months and all hops in the washDC verizon network. until they oversubscribed the md/va/dc area.

your wasting your time and any customer service rep your calling to complain about 16ms. Most isp's won't start caring until you start seeing 100ms+, even then you'll have a long road of complaining ahead. Its not until your seeing dropped packets due to lag at your gateway that your going to see progress and changes being made. 16ms does not mean they are oversubscribing your area.

I agree. 4 ms doesnt get you very far, even with a high-speed fiber connection.

Components of latency include insertion time (which is a function of packet size & speed of the link), router/switching node queueing delays and propogation latency which is limited by the speed of light in fiber (when using fiber) over the distance it must travel.

If you are going coast to coast (or worse, overseas) it doesnt matter if you have your own P2P OC3 between you and the destination, light only travels so fast in fiber (slower than in a vacuum).

Was having the same issue recently (last 2 or 3 days) and Verizon didnt seem to care very much. Today however... for the first time.... everything is running a bit smoother... still not as good as 6+ months ago, but better.