Fios in Carrollwood

[pilotbob]

Hi All,

I got FIOS installed over the weekend. It "seems" to be a little slower than expected even though my account shows I am on the 15/2 plan. Some speed test show slower that I was getting with Roadrunner.

Where do you guys test your connection? Does it show 15/2? It there a place to test the up speed?

I also looked in the router and the PPPoE login was set to NEWUSER as the user name. Is that correct or should that be my Verizon.net login that they gave me? I was thinking that this may be why I am not getting the full speed?

Thanks,
BOb

[Floyd]

Here's the site that the fios guy used to test my connection in Carrolwood:
http://miranda.ctd.anl.gov:7123/

Here's another one I found that gives a high result, with a nice speedo graphic:
http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/

Speakeasy gave me a 5036/1736kbps for my 5m/2m fios connection

When the fios was first hooked up it didn't get the full speed, so the tech ran an optimizer program of some sort on my desktop PC. Something about packet size managment. Then, the full speed happened. Later, I had to do the same thing with my wireless notebook, which then got the same speed as the wired desktop.

[Kendo]

I experienced the same thing until the tech ran an optimizer program. I have something called DrTCP (DRTCP021.exe). What seemed to make a big difference was increasing the Tcp Receive Window parameter to something around 307824 and making the MTU around 1492. I'm sure these settings might vary some depending on the type of computer you have (speed, memory, NIC).

Make sure your computer is free of spyware which can seriously reduce performance.

[pilotbob]

Ok,

Well, I did run the FIOS speed optimizer, it is on the Verizon web site. I also ran a speed test that I found on the Web to an internal Verizon address and it did show 15Mbps (It is 15 mega BITs right? not 15 megabytes?)

Anyway... I was downloading files from the Verizon news server, news.verizon.net and it "seemed" really slow. I did some calculations and it seemed to be about 2 Mbps that I was getting. (This calculates to 256KBps).

Now, I don't expect 100% thruput, I do expect when d/ling from an internal Verizon server to get almost full speed. But, even when I d/l from channel9.msdn.com I am getting about 300 KBps according to the d/l dialog. The Google calculator tells me that 300KBps is 2.3 Mbps... which is to SLOW considering I am paying for 15Mbps.

I don't expect, as I said, full thruput, but I would expect at least 10Mbps which should be a d/l speed of 1280KBps. True 15Mbps would be 1920KBps.

So, what type of download speeds (thruput) are you guys getting on your 15/2 service? This tends to tell me Verizon doesn't have enough capacity on their connection to the internet to deliver a through-put anywhere NEAR the speed I am paying for. Either that or something is wrong with my setup. Yes, I will be calling support.

You guys with 5Mbps that would be 640KBps, are you getting about 600KBps when you download?

Thanks,
BOb

[pdjernes]

Hi Bob,

I have the 5/2 plan. I'm getting from Speakeasy.

Download Speed: 5029 kbps (628.6 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 1741 kbps (217.6 KB/sec transfer rate)

Phil

[pilotbob]

I have the 5/2 plan. I'm getting from Speakeasy.

Download Speed: 5029 kbps (628.6 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 1741 kbps (217.6 KB/sec transfer rate)



Phil,

Speakeasy does show a dl speed for me of 14,000 (don't remember the exact number). But, this is the ONLY speed test site that shows this. My assumption is that they are on the Verizon back bone?

Other web sites like:
McAffe Speedometer http://us.mcafee.com/root/speedometer/default.asp - 3.9Mbps
http://www.bandwidthplace.com/speedtest/ - 8Mbps
http://www.cable-modem.net/perf.html - 3Mbps

Show much lower speeds. I'm curious what you show at these other sites?

Also, what's really important to me would be thru-put. So, when downloading from Microsoft and other sites as I said I was averaging 300 KBps which is about 2 Mbps, no where NEAR 15Mbps.

As I said, the weirdest thing was downloading from the Verizon USENET news server is VERY slow. Unless I am hitting an old new server. I couldn't find any info on the FIOS site about the News servers name... was hard enough to find the email server names.

BOb

[pilotbob]

Hmm...

Actually, tonight, right now, I am getting about 970 KBps (about 8 Mbps) thru-put downloading a video from Channel9 at Microsoft. Perhaps there was just something flakey the other day.

Interesting,
BOb

[Floyd]

I went to the sites you mentioned. Here are the results from my 5/2 fios connection:
Speakeasy usually gives me 5.02Mbps/1.7up

http://us.mcafee.com/root/speedometer/default.asp 150 KB

http://www.bandwidthplace.com/speedtest/ 4.5 Mbps

http://www.cable-modem.net/perf.html 2581 Kbps

As you can see, your 15/2 connection is doing better than mine, but I don't know why the mcaffee site is so slow with mine.

[pdjernes]

Here you go BOb
us.mcafee.com/root/ 2.9297 MB Time Elapsed: 48.781 seconds
bandwidthplace.com/speedtest/ 5.4 megabits per second
cable-modem.net/perf.html 3531 Kbps

Phil