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> wrote:
Sadly, I have only the 50/20 FiOS service. I would love to get 100/100. Where do I sign up.
My initial installation used MoCA. It would not reliably deliver 50Mbps on tcp-based download tests. (coax network brand new, very small). Test results were erratic, typically between 30 and 40Mbps. Technician 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 the ONT. I immediately observed reliable, consistent download speeds at 51.8Mbps. (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 reservations and so forth). The MoCA diag displays show that the STBs see each other and the Actiontech at speeds over 220Mbps. I doubt the issue is inadequate phy connection. I assume the interplay between the MoCA MAC and TCP yields poor performance. But, I did not research this. I had them take my Internet off the MoCA path and it has worked fine since.
So, how I go about getting 100/100?