Re: Verizon FIOS

["Jay Kramer" <user=102@nabble.blu.org>]

 I am using Verizon's lowest option for upload and download speed.  I think 
that it is 1.5 Mb download and 350K upload.  The download and upload speeds 
are fast and usually at full speed when downloading a file or upgrading 
Ubuntu.  It is slow web browsing and using google at certain times.  It may 
be a DNS issue. It maybe google's service.  Since everyone else has a good 
connection, it is most likely something with my setup.  I will try setting 
up a DNS server.  It is about time that I do it anyway. 
Jay 

On Dec 23, 2007 1:01 PM, Jarod Wilson <[hidden email]> wrote: 

> On Dec 23, 2007, at 11:59 AM, Derek Atkins wrote: 
> 
> > "James Kramer" <[hidden email]> writes: 
> > 
> >> Is anyone experiencing any slow connections with Verizon FIOS?  My 
> >> computer 
> >> seems to crawl when I visit my personal page on google.  When I view 
> >> Democracy Now using Real Player, I always have severe problems that 
> >> I never 
> >> had previously.  It is me or is anyone else realizing a performance 
> >> hit 
> >> using FIOS?  If I go to Speakeasy Speed Test (The one that Verizon 
> >> uses)  It 
> >> shows great transfer rates.  I also can download files at a nice 
> >> speed.  But 
> >> something seems fishy in to me. 
> > 
> > I wish Vz would get FIOS I-net service into Somerville already... 
> > I don't care about their TV service.   But I'm interested in what 
> > you mean by "slow connections"?  Is it initial connections being 
> > slow?  Or if you go to a website and, say, download a multi-megabyte 
> > data file does it take a while? 
> 
> For the record, zero slowness I've ever noticed with FiOS here in 
> Tyngsboro. And I can routinely saturate the 20Mbps worth of incoming 
> bandwidth. Its actually fast enough that I don't really see any 
> significant increase in perceptible web browsing speed from running a 
> caching web proxy either. I do run an internal caching dns server, but 
> really only because I have internal dns to serve up also. 
> 
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