Frontier Communications → Re: [FiOS] Congestion in Bothell?

So far I can say that it's even worse than usual. I'm seeing speeds in the 1 Mbps range at times, spiking at ~20 Mbps right now. I pay for 150/150. Can't even watch twitch. Contacting them tomorrow to have them remove payments, this is just insanely bad.

I'm in the Silver Firs area and it's really bad today. Less than 5Mbps down and I pay for 100/100. Is anybody noticing degradation of On Demand also? We're getting choppy audio and digitized video, but that's been going on much longer than my speed issues.

VOD is delivered over IP (e.g. your Internet connection). When your Internet is bad (enough) your VOD playback will suffer.

I will say that it used to be that when you were using VOD, it would NOT impact your maximum Internet speed. For example, I have 25/25 and I could watch VOD without any issues and run speed tests and still get 25/25 and VOD would be fine. That's no longer the case and hasn't been for many months now.

Tonight on a 100mb line »www.speedtest.net/result ··· 2008.png

Still faster than 52% of the US. :-/

I think that is because of the upload being relatively high...

Yeah, I saw that downtime as well, I called customer support they insisted that nothing was going on in the area. The problems are getting serious now, I really don't want to switch back to comcast but I can't deal with this kind of downtime.