Re: FIOS Router

[Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists () gmail com>]

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?