[126716] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FIOS Router
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Morrow)
Thu May 27 16:24:35 2010
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTin7nIuJ6UzZ6GEmREUD-QoO2rEPRqjGYkL0CIN9@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 16:24:21 -0400
From: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
To: Chris Burwell <cburwell@gmail.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 3:40 PM, Chris Burwell <cburwell@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
It does, or it used to... rumors were DFW was a good place to get the
100/100 service.
As to the actiontec, just ditch it, if you have cat-5 from the ONT
you've been presented with an ethernet LAN, plug that into any old
switch and feed your end systems off that (presuming you have more
than 1 ip address and static addressing).
If you NEED a router/firewall, then get an ssg5 or use a little linux-alike=
box.
-Chris
>On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Robert Enger - NANOG <nanog@enger.us> wro=
te:
>> =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 50Mb=
ps on
>> tcp-based download tests. =A0(coax network brand new, very small). =A0Te=
st
>> results were erratic, typically between 30 and 40Mbps. =A0Technician tol=
d me
>> to put up with it (not making this up).
>>
>> I fought with VZ and had them re-provision me to 100BaseT connection on =
the
>> ONT. =A0I immediately observed reliable, consistent download speeds at
>> 51.8Mbps. =A0(Since dropped to 49.2 after their speed re-provisioning a =
few
>> months ago.)
>>
>> MoCA is a half-duplex channel with sophisticated MAC (e.g. BW reservatio=
ns
>> and so forth). =A0 The MoCA diag displays show that the STBs see each ot=
her
>> and the Actiontech at speeds over 220Mbps. =A0I doubt the issue is inade=
quate
>> phy connection. =A0I assume the interplay between the MoCA MAC and TCP y=
ields
>> 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?
>>
>>
>>
>>
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