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Guess who has a connection faster than 2 megabits per second? Oh yeah, it's me!

They came yesterday to install the ONT on the outside of the house, and today to install the inside CAT5 wire. Everything was going fine, and then we couldn't connect the router to the PPPoE server.

So the tech put in a call around 11:30am, and at around 6:30pm it's finally working.

Although I only have 5Mbps down at the moment... and I should have 15. Am I greedy? Yes!

I'm too tired to talk about this all right now, since I haven't eaten since the mini-bagel I had before they arrived this morning. Maybe later I'll detail the install, but right now I need to feed. I feel light-headed.

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Comment by Owen on .
Owen
http://asymptomatic.net/2005/03/05/1319/fios-installed#comment-1903
Right. Your speed is 1229/283. That will download 1MB in about 6 seconds and upload 1MB in about 29 seconds. Divide 1024 (kilobytes/megabyte) by your broadbandreports.com score (kilobits/second) and then multiply that by 8 (bits/byte) to determine the number of seconds to transfer 1MB. Here's my report. For example, a two-hour SVCD movie now takes me about 35 minutes to download. HD TV shows will take about 1/4 of that time.
Comment by Owen on .
Owen
http://asymptomatic.net/2005/03/05/1319/fios-installed#comment-2038
Well, that's the speed of your inside wiring. My computer says that, too. You have to kind of know your line speed. There are online tools that will tell you your actual running line speed. My last test score was 4962/1676, which can download 1MB in less than 2 seconds. If you remember dialup, that would take 5-10 minutes depending on your line quality. My actual speed is supposed to be 15000/2000, which would download almost 2MB per second. I will call them Monday to have this fixed. Hopefully it doesn't trash the whole system, which took so long to get working in the first place.
Comment by Owen on .
Owen
http://asymptomatic.net/2005/03/05/1319/fios-installed#comment-2057
The downstream rate is good, but I'm really jazzed about my upstream rate, which is now 2Mbps. It's much better for for upoading photos and files to the web site. No more waiting. Oh, and I was using DBACentral last night (it's a MSAccess-like GUI front-end for MySQL) and there was no delay. Woo hoo!