FiOS
Information about Verizon's FiOS service
I was down for about 15 minutes to some of the internet thanks to this routing issue:
It looks like UU.net, owned by Verizon Business had some routing issues:
Trying to get to ThreadAbort.com from my FiOS connection:
Traceroute to 4.79.230.85 (4.79.230.85), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 L100.VFTTP-07.NRFLVA.verizon-gni.net (72.84.94.1) 2.862 ms 4.033 ms 5.484 ms
2 P4-3.LCR-02.NRFLVA.verizon-gni.net (130.81.58.66) 6.948 ms 8.669 ms 10.140 ms
3 so-6-3-0-0.BB-RTR2.RES.verizon-gni.net (130.81.29.92) 18.107 ms 19.579 ms 21.050 ms
4 0.so-3-2-0.XT2.DCA6.ALTER.NET (152.63.39.177) 26.225 ms 27.695 ms 28.918 ms
5 * * *
6 POS7-0-0.GW4.IND6.ALTER.NET (152.63.67.253) 153.230 ms 131.945 ms 133.340 ms
7 * * *
8 POS7-0-0.GW4.IND6.ALTER.NET (152.63.67.253) 230.905 ms 232.876 ms 234.087 ms
9 *...
We upgraded our connection to 50/20 (50 mbps down and 20 mbps up). I must say the results are quite impressive. For the exact same price (~$90/month) we have a full 50 mpbs!
I had to change my Router once again though. I achieved these results with the $99 Dlink DIR-655. The router seems to handle itself quite well. I am considering going to a full blown Linux router, but the Dlink seems to be doing nicely.
I have had quite an easy time dealing with Verizon Support. Their techs do not treat me like an idiot. I asked one tech...
Today is the day. FiOS is now installed. Here are a few tips that I gathered from reading about everyone else experiences. Ask the guy to do ethernet from the ONT box. They can and will do it only if you ask. Otherwise you will get Coax cable to your supplied Actiontec MI424 Router. Now, I can not confirm or deny this, but I think there is a lag if you use the Coax method of an additional 5 ms or so. If anyone can confirm this, please let me know.
Here is my tracert (trace route) for FiOS to this site...
Check out Part 2 for the final results.
Tomorrow I will have FIOS installed. 30 down / 15 up. One thing that is always bothered me about Cable is that I seem to drop 6-10 ms just from my cable modem to Cox's.
Here is my current tracert (traceroute) to this site. This site is connected on Level3's backbone via fiber and a gigabit connection.
Tracing route to threadabort.com [4.79.230.85] over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.49.1
2 8 ms 7 ms 7 ms 10.2.204.1
3 7 ms 8 ms 8 ms 68.10.8.57
4 7 ms ...