[wplug] Verizon vs Comcast

[Alex]

Very interesting - I'm using verizon DSL - bottom-of-the-barrel bandwidth, but religiously dies nightly at 10:15 pm, have to reboot the DSL router ev single night. Gotten to be a sad joke at home.... my spouse cannot wait to switch, but apparently the alternatives are limited (4G wireless is spotty at our location in Allison Park).

..alex.

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> On Feb 10, 2014, at 10:04 AM, Florin Manolache <florinmano at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi everybody,
> 
> I know this is not a Linux specific question, but I think this is a
> good place to dip into some expertise.
> 
> The problem: I am working at CMU and use Verizon FiOS at home (50Mbps download).
> During the late evenings the download speed to CMU goes under 1Mbps,
> sometimes much lower.
> Bandwidth tests show that locally in the Verizon network the access
> speed is fine (around 35-40Mbps) but once the traffic gets out of
> Verizon's network it is throttled down.
> Verizon blames Cogent for that, Cogent blames Verizon, and the end
> user is the one taking the hit.
> This is not only my problem, but all my colleagues on Verizon FiOS
> experience it.
> Also, not only the traffic from CMU gets throttled down, but a lot of
> other sites, Netflix, YouTube, etc, basically everything that follows
> the Verizon-Cogent route.
> 
> Potential solution: some people claim that the problem doesn't exist
> from the Comcast network.
> Even if the bandwidth is lower than the one offered by Verizon, the
> claim is that Comacat's bandwidth is sustainable at the order of about
> 20Mbps even during the evenings.
> If I could check that, I'll switch to Comcast and advice all my
> Verizon FiOS colleagues to do so.
> 
> I would like to hear your opinions, thoughts, and experiences
> regarding this issue.
> If you have Comcast please try some bandwidth tests around 9-10pm and
> let me know the results.
> For the bandwidth tests I was using http://testmy.net/ or a 20MB
> download from one of my servers at
> http://www.math.cmu.edu/~florin/SpeedTest/r20m
> 
> 
> Thank you very much,
> Florin Manolache
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