Just got FiOS Installed about 10 min ago

[Toonces]

About $65/mo. It's great to have like 14 choices in ISPs here in Japan.

 

[JEDI]

I had Time Warner before which the best it gave me was 5.5down/768up. This is over my wireless network. This is through a 15/5 connection so I'm getting faster than what I paid for.

yeah, verizon does give you more than you pay for.

dsl = 1meg/384k ($15/month)
i'm getting 120k down/45k up, which is ~20% more

 

[JEDI]

About $65/mo. It's great to have like 14 choices in ISPs here in Japan.

HOLY!

and what do you do in week 2 after you've downloaded the entire porn collection of the world?

 

[boomerang]

My FIOS - so hot, it's stolen
Your FIOS look like Gary Coleman

 

[MotF Bane]

My FiOS runs 26/13 at home.

HOLY!

and what do you do in week 2 after you've downloaded the entire porn collection of the world?

It's Japan. There are always more tentacles.

 

[Arcadio]

 

[Locut0s]

HOLY!

and what do you do in week 2 after you've downloaded the entire porn collection of the world?

Fap furiously?

 

[fatpat268]

Lol, you can tell which speedtests are the roadrunner ones. They're the ones with large downloads but with .5 mb/s upload. ROFL

 

[Locut0s]

Lol, you can tell which speedtests are the roadrunner ones. They're the ones with large downloads but with .5 mb/s upload. ROFL

That's got to suck for torrents!

 

[AMDZen]

I thought fios was faster, guess I'm not worried now that i don't have it

 

[fatpat268]

That's got to suck for torrents!

It does. Thats why I *cough*usenet*cough*

 

[Rubycon]

I thought fios was faster, guess I'm not worried now that i don't have it

The speed test is hardly a good comparison. This tactic is exactly why Comcast's "power boost" goes over so well - it gives the ILLUSION that they are faster (and better).

In that example above the ping of 119 is suspiciously high. A 5mbps connection that's consistent with a low ping would be superior!

Try www.pingtest.net to see how your connection stacks up. With online gaming, voip, and other latency sensitive applications low jitter, stable connections takes precedence over the highest number on a speed test - by far. Problem is these operators open the flood gates without consideration of enough bandwidth to go around during times of heavy utilization. Thus in doing this, QUALITY suffers dramatically.

 

[skyking]

Are those FIOS static IP's, or do you get a different IP often?
I'm stuck out in the toolies and have a choice of crappy DSL, crapcastic or the local cable company. I stayed with the local company because they have a small address pool and my dynamic IP has remained unchanged for 5 years now.

 

[AMDZen]

The speed test is hardly a good comparison. This tactic is exactly why Comcast's "power boost" goes over so well - it gives the ILLUSION that they are faster (and better).

In that example above the ping of 119 is suspiciously high. A 5mbps connection that's consistent with a low ping would be superior!

Try www.pingtest.net to see how your connection stacks up. With online gaming, voip, and other latency sensitive applications low jitter, stable connections takes precedence over the highest number on a speed test - by far. Problem is these operators open the flood gates without consideration of enough bandwidth to go around during times of heavy utilization. Thus in doing this, QUALITY suffers dramatically.

I would agree if thats what you use your Internet connection for, all i care about is downloading pr0n fast. Not everyone plays wow or skypes all their friends

Oh and my ping reflects poorly on that screenie because I was running through a VPN when i ran it, its normally down around 20 ping

 

[Rubycon]

I would agree if thats what you use your Internet connection for, all i care about is downloading pr0n fast. Not everyone plays wow or skypes all their friends

Oh and my ping reflects poorly on that screenie because I was running through a VPN when i ran it, its normally down around 20 ping

That test would be invalid then. Connecting to a VPN should not affect latency UNLESS you're using the VPN as a remote gateway (which means you would be bound by that connection's speed plus overhead.) OR you are transferring data through the tunnel.

Try disconnecting any VPN sessions and running that test again.

Connections with high jitter tend to have wildly varying download speeds as well. It's a sign of an oversold network which is never a good thing.

 

[Regs]

There's a point in which peek d/l speed becomes pointless. Most sites or servers I've been to send at a maximum of 1.0 - 1.5mb per sec.

 

[DnetMHZ]

For some reason my 16/2 connection is testing at 56/2 today..

 

[Muadib]

Are those FIOS static IP's, or do you get a different IP often?
I'm stuck out in the toolies and have a choice of crappy DSL, crapcastic or the local cable company. I stayed with the local company because they have a small address pool and my dynamic IP has remained unchanged for 5 years now.

I've had Fios since Sept, and my ip has not changed, but it could.

 

[isekii]

hay j00n!

anyways, that's what i used to have from TW (10 down, 0.5 up) - then i complained about them raising my prices, and the dude put me on an Earthlink plan to keep it from changing prices. so they gave me this:

i go from 10 down to 6 down, but my up goes from 0.5 to 1.0. fair trade?

I think I would prefer a faster upload too.
The offer a faster service than what I currently have for 10 more bucks per month.
which ups the download speed but i don't think it's worth it.

 

[isekii]

I beat all of you in a download

 

[dbk]

 

[skyking]

I've had Fios since Sept, and my ip has not changed, but it could.

that's a good start. So much of what I do works better with IPs than dynamic dns.

 

[AdamK47]

 

[mb]

I beat all of you in a download

Speed boost wtf!

 

[SunSamurai]

Speed boost wtf!

Nice download speeds