FIOS Installed today!

I had Verizon fiber optic internet installed today. here are some tests. My download from my website was slower, it never got above 500K/s, whereas comcast would spike to 700K/s for awhile. I wonder if this is a pathing issue to the server. The speakeasy tests were all much better on FIOS, and no packet loss on the pings. Uploading is much faster on FIOS.

Update: John had me install Apple’s broadband tuner and it really sped things up.

curl 98mb download (in kBytes/sec)

	OS X
comcast	614K (WRT Linksys)
fios	471K

Then I installed apple’s broadband tuner for FIOS (http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/broadbandtuner10.html)

comcast	772k
fios	888k

speakeasy SF

FIOS	14607/1763
Comcast	2698/708

speakeasy LA

FIOS	11236/1691
Comcast	5288/703

speakeasy NY

FIOS	4722/1697
Comcast	3833/700

Comcast pings:

PING www.apple.com.akadns.net (17.254.0.91): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 17.254.0.91: icmp_seq=0 ttl=243 time=75.236 ms
64 bytes from 17.254.0.91: icmp_seq=1 ttl=243 time=72.403 ms
64 bytes from 17.254.0.91: icmp_seq=2 ttl=243 time=73.560 ms
64 bytes from 17.254.0.91: icmp_seq=3 ttl=243 time=74.599 ms
64 bytes from 17.254.0.91: icmp_seq=4 ttl=243 time=75.249 ms
64 bytes from 17.254.0.91: icmp_seq=5 ttl=243 time=74.313 ms
64 bytes from 17.254.0.91: icmp_seq=6 ttl=243 time=74.393 ms
64 bytes from 17.254.0.91: icmp_seq=7 ttl=243 time=73.111 ms
64 bytes from 17.254.0.91: icmp_seq=8 ttl=243 time=73.917 ms
64 bytes from 17.254.0.91: icmp_seq=9 ttl=243 time=72.669 ms
^C
--- www.apple.com.akadns.net ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 72.403/73.945/75.249/0.948 ms

PING www.boston.com (66.151.183.21): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 66.151.183.21: icmp_seq=0 ttl=237 time=105.866 ms
64 bytes from 66.151.183.21: icmp_seq=1 ttl=237 time=101.489 ms
64 bytes from 66.151.183.21: icmp_seq=2 ttl=237 time=104.582 ms
64 bytes from 66.151.183.21: icmp_seq=3 ttl=237 time=103.774 ms
64 bytes from 66.151.183.21: icmp_seq=4 ttl=237 time=104.647 ms
64 bytes from 66.151.183.21: icmp_seq=5 ttl=237 time=104.013 ms
64 bytes from 66.151.183.21: icmp_seq=6 ttl=237 time=104.001 ms
64 bytes from 66.151.183.21: icmp_seq=7 ttl=237 time=104.611 ms
64 bytes from 66.151.183.21: icmp_seq=8 ttl=237 time=105.010 ms
64 bytes from 66.151.183.21: icmp_seq=9 ttl=237 time=103.839 ms
^C
--- www.boston.com ping statistics ---
11 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 9% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 101.489/104.183/105.866/1.081 ms

FIOS Pings

PING www.apple.com.akadns.net (17.254.0.91): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 17.254.0.91: icmp_seq=0 ttl=237 time=43.257 ms
64 bytes from 17.254.0.91: icmp_seq=1 ttl=237 time=42.798 ms
64 bytes from 17.254.0.91: icmp_seq=2 ttl=237 time=42.810 ms
64 bytes from 17.254.0.91: icmp_seq=3 ttl=237 time=42.870 ms
64 bytes from 17.254.0.91: icmp_seq=4 ttl=237 time=42.826 ms
64 bytes from 17.254.0.91: icmp_seq=5 ttl=237 time=42.832 ms
64 bytes from 17.254.0.91: icmp_seq=6 ttl=237 time=42.843 ms
64 bytes from 17.254.0.91: icmp_seq=7 ttl=237 time=45.389 ms
64 bytes from 17.254.0.91: icmp_seq=8 ttl=237 time=42.861 ms
64 bytes from 17.254.0.91: icmp_seq=9 ttl=237 time=42.872 ms
^C
--- www.apple.com.akadns.net ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 42.798/43.136/45.389/0.762 ms

PING www.boston.com (66.151.183.21): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 66.151.183.21: icmp_seq=0 ttl=241 time=111.116 ms
64 bytes from 66.151.183.21: icmp_seq=1 ttl=241 time=108.561 ms
64 bytes from 66.151.183.21: icmp_seq=2 ttl=241 time=111.037 ms
64 bytes from 66.151.183.21: icmp_seq=3 ttl=241 time=108.566 ms
64 bytes from 66.151.183.21: icmp_seq=4 ttl=241 time=111.058 ms
64 bytes from 66.151.183.21: icmp_seq=5 ttl=241 time=111.053 ms
64 bytes from 66.151.183.21: icmp_seq=6 ttl=241 time=108.589 ms
64 bytes from 66.151.183.21: icmp_seq=7 ttl=241 time=111.076 ms
64 bytes from 66.151.183.21: icmp_seq=8 ttl=241 time=111.081 ms
64 bytes from 66.151.183.21: icmp_seq=9 ttl=241 time=111.079 ms
64 bytes from 66.151.183.21: icmp_seq=10 ttl=241 time=111.077 ms
64 bytes from 66.151.183.21: icmp_seq=11 ttl=241 time=108.609 ms
64 bytes from 66.151.183.21: icmp_seq=12 ttl=241 time=111.088 ms
64 bytes from 66.151.183.21: icmp_seq=13 ttl=241 time=108.632 ms
^C
--- www.boston.com ping statistics ---
14 packets transmitted, 14 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 108.561/110.187/111.116/1.190 ms

http://nitro.ucsc.edu/

FIOS

10s outbound test (client to server) . . . . . 1.87Mb/s
running 10s inbound test (server to client) . . . . . . 9.96Mb/s