Fios Speed against Vista ????????????

Can somebody share thoughts?

Hi, I already we to the NBR Member Vista Tips and Tweaks Guide ( http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=166532) and thanks to it Im now on my U/D ratio 12.09/8.66mps according to ( http://www.speedtest.net/) on the other hand Verizon's FIOS speed test page ( http://www2.verizon.net/micro/speedtest/java/) shows my U/D @ 25/2.7mps. However here is my issue how y submitted it to Microsoft and Verizon (I have tried different speed test web pages and they all tend to differ but the one submitted here ( http://www.speedtest.net/) is also used by Verizon technicians; besides, wich by the way shows the U/D at 25/20mps on their technicians laptop, which by obvious reasons are XP. Also because is their server to begin with):

My system is working according to this specs (Vista SP2)and to this web page ( http://support.microsoft.com/kb/939006/en-us) but still my U/D rate is not the best. I had verizon technicians coming to my house and they could not do anything, not even the ones over the phone. Apparently if a costumer has XP is good to go but as soon somebody has VISTA "oh well" a issue on their hands.My service was installled on July 2nd and U/D was 23/16 however by July 7th was 10/2 and nobody has been able to fix this or share some light on this issue.

 

This is why I ditched Vista after a week. I now use Win7 RC and I have the 10/2 Verizon FIOS plan. All of my speedtests are at about 10/2 so there are no problems.

 

These speedtests are not generally accurate. Your network speed depends upon various factors, which cannot be predicted in a 30 sec speedtest.

 

If your speed is not objectively meeting the plan you're paying for, the problem is almost certainly in the setup - and most likely in the connections between the box where the fibre-optic comes into your house and interfaces with the coaxial (or ethernet cable) and the modem/router (do you have the Actiontec router? That's the one I have with the FiOS service I have).

Also, if you're managing to get speed results that meet the maximums on the plan you have when you run a speedtest to Verizon's own servers, then it cannot be the case that you've got a problem with _Vista, because if that was where the problem was, you would get slow speeds regardless of what server you were running the speedtest to.

Another test you can run to try and determine where the slow-down is happening is tracert. Open a command console window (Start->Run... type "cmd" in the box (w/o quote marks) and hit return. Then run a tracert to a known public server such as google.com or microsoft.com. The test will provide a list of return times from each router or gateway your packets hit on the route from your computer to the server you're tracing to, and that should show you where the slowness is coming from.

Also, depending on what server you're running your tests to on speednet (or any other test site), you'll get less than perfect results. In particular, you won't get results that are as good as the results you get running the Verizon-specific version of the speednet test, because that runs the test against a Verizon server in your location, which basically means you're staying within Verizon's equipment and never running across the public 'net.

I have 20 down/5 up, and this is what I typically get when I run a speednet test to their recommended public server:


As you can see, there's some loss of theoretical capacity, which is largely due to the necessary overhead in the system.