[126712] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FIOS Router
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Burwell)
Thu May 27 15:41:00 2010
In-Reply-To: <4BFEC67F.4090309@enger.us>
From: Chris Burwell <cburwell@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 15:40:29 -0400
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
To be honest, I'm not sure how they got the 100Mb service. The fastest
service I have seen on the FiOS website is the 50/20. I can only
assume that it varies by region.
- Chris
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Robert Enger - NANOG <nanog@enger.us> wrot=
e:
> =A0Sadly, I have only the 50/20 FiOS service. =A0I would love to get 100/=
100.
> =A0Where do I sign up.
>
> My initial installation used MoCA. =A0It would not reliably deliver 50Mbp=
s on
> tcp-based download tests. =A0(coax network brand new, very small). =A0Tes=
t
> results were erratic, typically between 30 and 40Mbps. =A0Technician told=
me
> to put up with it (not making this up).
>
> I fought with VZ and had them re-provision me to 100BaseT connection on t=
he
> ONT. =A0I immediately observed reliable, consistent download speeds at
> 51.8Mbps. =A0(Since dropped to 49.2 after their speed re-provisioning a f=
ew
> months ago.)
>
> MoCA is a half-duplex channel with sophisticated MAC (e.g. BW reservation=
s
> and so forth). =A0 The MoCA diag displays show that the STBs see each oth=
er
> and the Actiontech at speeds over 220Mbps. =A0I doubt the issue is inadeq=
uate
> phy connection. =A0I assume the interplay between the MoCA MAC and TCP yi=
elds
> poor performance. =A0But, I did not research this. =A0I had them take my
> Internet off the MoCA path and it has worked fine since.
>
> So, how I go about getting 100/100?
>
>
>
>
