[wplug] Verizon vs Comcast

[Rob]

I'd be very careful about using anecdotal evidence to say that one evil carrier (verizon or comcast) is better than the other.  The truth is that without better testing you don't kow who or where the problem is occuring.  It could be that the bastards are taking advantage of their privileged status of information and data provider to play favorites in routing or prioritizing traffic.  The solution there is to support net neutrallity andtell the FCC that you want all ISPs and network providers to be designated common carriers and as public utilities so that they cannot play favorites.

I consider both verizon and comcast to be evil but alas, they have a relatively captive audience with little to no real competition or customer choice.

post your traceroute data taken at several times during a 72 hour period and we'll take a look to see if anything jumps out as a bottleneck.

-Rob

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On Mon, 2/10/14, Florin Manolache <florinmano at gmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: [wplug] Verizon vs Comcast
 To: "General user list" <wplug at wplug.org>
 Date: Monday, February 10, 2014, 10:04 AM
 
 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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