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Speed bump

Yea the optimizer on Verizons site didnt make any difference.

I have had FIOS for a little over 2 years now. Up until about 2 months ago all machines in the house ran either XP Pro or XP X64. I recently built both my wife and myself new machines and because of a lack reliable drivers on XP X64 we moved to Vista 64. Ever since our connection with the Actiontec router has been kind of flakey. I subscribe to the 20/5 package and I usually have to reboot the router 2-3 times a day to keep us running at the rated speed otherwise the connection speed plummets (from 20mbit to around 1mbit). Anyone have similar experiences. BTW I had Verizon send me a new router but that didnt resolve the issue. Should I just go buy my own?

I feel your pain man. I have tried everything from IE-7 to Opera with no luck. There is no way I am going back to regular XP though.

I think I do need those speeds. This is only one of 5 computers on my network at home. Its a worst case scenario however, I think it would kind of suck to have to split a 5 mbit connection 5 ways.

I hope they have enough common sense to fix any bandwidth issues on their side before offering faster packages to a wider range of people....

I live in Apollo Beach FL. Yes 20/20 sounds sweet.

Not my full possible speed but for a real world download I will take it. 20/5 package Filefront download of the 741 MB Unreal Tournament 3 Beta Demo in just under 6 minutes.

I just reinstalled Windows XP Pro X64 and everytime I run the speedtest now the 5 meg speed test stops halfway through. Current settings: RWIN = 1045440 MTU = 1500 I have fios 20/5 package. Other machine completes the test fine. I can complete other tests ok but the speed is a little lower than before the reinstall. Anyone have any idea what might be going on? I tried Verizon's registry file but it did not seem to change anything.

Sorry for the late response. Here is a result from Speedtest.net And Upload From here. I get about 4600-4700 upload on the Verizon speed test so I am not getting my whole upload but I am not going to complain. I only pay 45.99 a month. RR only offers 10/2 for 49.99 here. You might get that if you are lucky. FiOS is a wondeful thing.

Thats the package I have (20/5). You will be pleased, very pleased.

I look forward to that. Last time RR upped the speed in my area I went from 15/2 to 20/5

What does the final time and speed show as after the d/l is complete? Just curious because mine was showing 2 minutes remaining at 2.61mbps and after it completed it came out as 2.05mbps average and took 4 minutes 9 seconds to complete.

I thought my 512 mb download in just over 4 minutes and 22Mbps test speed was pretty speedy......(in Tampa btw). That article compares the US average of 1.9 Mbps to Japan at 61Mbps however I think the 61Mbps connection they mention for Japan is the exeption not the rule. Most cities in the US have cable connections of around 5-7Mbps available to them. I think its the rural areas that skew our average. Japans average is higher however its a smaller country and the large majority of its population live in cities. Tokyo has a monsterous average connection speed.

My d/l results for the optimum online ftp test. I love FiOS

Dont get me wrong if you are really getting that speed than good for you. Even better if you arent paying extra for it. Have you treid testing on other sites as well like speedtest.net? Just so you can try other servers.

I dont think Verizon is even offering FiOS speeds above 50Mbps for residential customers right now. Even then you have to shell out some serious money every month for that speed. Are your parents rich?

Wow I just test my connection again just for the heck of it on the 48mb D/L I am paying $45 a month for 20MB/5MB btw. I was paying $48 for 7MB/758kB with RR.

FiOS 20/5 :::.. Download Stats ..::: Download Connection is:: 20368 Kbps about 20.4 Mbps (tested with 48638 kB) Download Speed is:: 2486 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (Server 1) Test Time:: 2007/05/29 - 4:26pm Bottom Line:: 355X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 0.41 sec Tested from a 48638 kB file and took 19.562 seconds to complete Download Diagnosis:: Looks Great : -100 % faster than the average for host (verizon.net) D-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-PDQR2X73G User Agent:: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) [!]

Apollo Beach FL.

20/5 @ $45 a month

FiOS just got a speed bump in my area as well. Just went from 15/2 to 20/5 this week.

Wow, even if you are rich you have to have fallen off the short bus and landed on your head to fall for that one. You have to setup an appointment to get one thats funny.

Fios 15/2 package. I am giving my best download scores. The last few days I have only been hitting 14.8 down on this site. $45 a month

I just got FioS hooked up yesterday. I have the basic package for now 5/2 and I am getting more than my 5 mb down speed however my upload speed seems to be lacking on this site and alot of other speed test sites (varies from 400k up to 800k up ) the only site that I seem to be able to upload at about the expected speed it on broadband reports which gives me about 1.7Mbps up. Does anyone know what might be going on? ISP: Verizon Service: FioS 5/2 OS: Win XP Pro I have tried using drtcp however I still cannot get the upload speed quite right Here are the results of the test speedguide test https://www.speedguide.net:8080/ TCP options string = 020405ac0103030301010402 MTU = 1492 MTU is optimized for PPoE DSL broadband. If not, consider raising MTU to 1500 for optimal throughput. MSS = 1452 MSS is optimized for PPPoE DSL broadband. If not, consider raising your MTU value. Default TCP Receive Window (RWIN) = 307824 RWIN Scaling (RFC1323) = 3 bits (scale factor of 6) Unscaled TCP Receive Window = 38478 RWIN is a multiple of MSS Other RWIN values that might work well with your current MTU/MSS: 511104 (MSS x 44 * scale factor of 255552 (MSS x 44 * scale factor of 4) 127776 (MSS x 44 * scale factor of 2) 63888 (MSS x 44) bandwidth * delay product (Note this is not a speed test): Your TCP Window limits you to: 12312.96 kbps (1539.12 KBytes/s) @ 200ms Your TCP Window limits you to: 4925.184 kbps (615.648 KBytes/s) @ 500ms MTU Discovery (RFC1191) = ON Time to live left = 121 hops TTL value is ok. Timestamps (RFC1323) = OFF Selective Acknowledgements (RFC2018) = ON IP type of service field (RFC1349) = 00000000 (0) Speed test results from this site: :::.. testmy.net test results ..::: Download Connection is:: 5371 Kbps about 5.37 Mbps (tested with 5983 kB) Download Speed is:: 656 kB/s Upload Connection is:: 834 Kbps about 0.83 Mbps (tested with 1496 kB) Upload Speed is:: 102 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net (Server 1) Test Time:: 2006/10/01 - 7:23am D-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-2XB36VHU5 U-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-PCBQFZA6R User Agent:: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) [!]