xs1 Posted April 9, 2020 CID Share Posted April 9, 2020 (edited) still trying to work out the bugs, but if you have FIOS by Frontier, CALL THEM! ? STORY TIME: See, back in the day, when FIOS was owned by Verizon, the used to do periodic FREE speed upgrades for their customers. For example, when i signed up with FIOS (Verizon) i had the 25/5 package. After a bit, they upgraded their plans to symmetric. So we than got bumped to 25/25. A few years later, as FIOS became more popular, they upgraded us to 35/35 for free! No fuss , no muss. As time went on, there basic plan was 50/50. Again, upgraded at no charge! -> After some time, many a year later..... Verizon decided they wanted to focus more on their wireless infrastructure, & get out of 65%(+) of their home networking side of things. ( Wireless is far more lucrative than home internet on many, many levels) They decided to SELL their FIOS to Frontier. Frontier is...... garbage to say the least. I dreaded reading this, as well as the day it would come to fruition... The customer reviews even before they bought FIOS , were frightful to say the least. i was staggered by what was to come. -> Hardware? Garbage. Network routing? Garbage. Customer Service? Garbage. Its a complete s*** show. Log story short, after a couple of painful years & many, many issues with routers, speeds, billing, credits, tech call outs, etc. i finally received the 500/500 plan. I fought TOOTH & NAIL to get, because they kept telling me my area was not "provisioned to have such speeds". -> Being on vacation this week, & on lock down to boot, i decided out of sheer boredom to call Frontier up & find out how much the 1 gigabit plan would run us, additional a month, seeing as how iv'e had the 500/500 for some time now. Dumbfounded, i find out its only $10.00 more a month!!! FRONTIER wasn't planning on telling people this!? Why would they when they can provide ½ the speed & still charge you damn near the same amount for god knows how long. It used to be a $200 a month up-charge! So call! Find out! Don''t pay more if you don''t have to! On a side note, same day after being "upgraded" to the gigabit speeds, i have a "tier 2" service ticket in because the download speeds are quite erratic. I'm sure after 2 to 3 months, they''ll get this corrected too.. ? Edited April 9, 2020 by xs1 nanobot 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Tracy Posted April 17, 2020 CID Share Posted April 17, 2020 No bill or uninstall Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pgoodwin1 Posted April 17, 2020 CID Share Posted April 17, 2020 I don’t know what kind of average and stability you should expect at those high speeds. Maybe someone with experience at those type speeds will chime in and comment. There’s a lot of things that have to be perfect to attain near-gigabit speeds. Michael Tracy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xs1 Posted April 17, 2020 Author CID Share Posted April 17, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, Pgoodwin1 said: I don’t know what kind of average and stability you should expect at those high speeds. Maybe someone with experience at those type speeds will chime in and comment. There’s a lot of things that have to be perfect to attain near-gigabit speeds. The upload is consistent. usually between 750-880. The download on the other hand can be as bad as 98 down, usually around 250. That's the issue. Same thing happened when we switched to 500/500. They over provision/overload their nodes typically, and that's a problem. Edited April 17, 2020 by xs1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pgoodwin1 Posted April 18, 2020 CID Share Posted April 18, 2020 On 4/17/2020 at 10:11 AM, xs1 said: The upload is consistent. usually between 750-880. The download on the other hand can be as bad as 98 down, usually around 250. That's the issue. Same thing happened when we switched to 500/500. They over provision/overload their nodes typically, and that's a problem. Maybe with enough phone calls you can get them to route you differently. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Tracy Posted April 21, 2020 CID Share Posted April 21, 2020 (edited) On 4/17/2020 at 12:06 AM, Michael Tracy said: No bill or uninstall Edited April 21, 2020 by Michael Tracy I'm never home how can I keep running out of data Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xs1 Posted May 1, 2020 Author CID Share Posted May 1, 2020 On 4/18/2020 at 10:53 AM, Pgoodwin1 said: Maybe with enough phone calls you can get them to route you differently. I eventually got a hold of a supervisor. He reluctantly admitted that with everyone on quarantine and at home streaming Netflix and whatnot, that my area is legitimately out of bandwidth. Once this is all over with, we;ll see if that's true. ? CA3LE and Pgoodwin1 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nanobot Posted May 1, 2020 CID Share Posted May 1, 2020 7 hours ago, xs1 said: I eventually got a hold of a supervisor. He reluctantly admitted that with everyone on quarantine and at home streaming Netflix and whatnot, that my area is legitimately out of bandwidth. Once this is all over with, we;ll see if that's true. ? That's not surprising. I'm seeing the same at my data-center. They're running several 100Gbit connections, but they also host a bunch of infrastructure for Netflix and Hulu, and they told me that "due to the significant amount of traffic to several of our customers, you may see bandwidth impacts." I got another ticket this week that said they're recarving up their bandwidth to limit those two in particular. Going to be interesting to see how that goes. xs1, Pgoodwin1 and CA3LE 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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StephenBiz Posted July 27, 2020 CID Share Posted July 27, 2020 Ive just gotten 1gb Fios aswell mine is still thru verizon speeds act a little erratic aswell but i think its down to the speedtest servers not being able to handle the speeds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pgoodwin1 Posted July 28, 2020 CID Share Posted July 28, 2020 I looked at your TestMy test results. They’re to three different test servers and a couple of multithreaded. What test server are you closest to? Run tome non-multithreaded tests to a TestMy server. I’m curious to see what speeds you get. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xs1 Posted July 31, 2020 Author CID Share Posted July 31, 2020 (edited) Sorry i was just doing some testing, they switched our area to Xpon and new ONT all kinds of changes. Was great for a couple days, now the upload is garbage... original problem was the download. Cant win with this company.. Edited July 31, 2020 by xs1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Rustcrew Posted August 7, 2021 CID Share Posted August 7, 2021 Speakeasy.net gives me the same reading every time within 1 or 2 mb's. Only here do they change drastically About every 5 reading 100 Mb's . Speed Test Plus_ Internet Speed & Quality.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rustcrew Posted August 7, 2021 CID Share Posted August 7, 2021 Speed Test Plus Internet Speed & Quality Test DOWNLOAD 953.27 Mbps UPLOAD 17.91 Mbps LATENCY 30 ms JITTER 1 ms Your connection and line quality is Excellent Test Again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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