people still using default dns.. what is this the 90's

It's ghot..

Well with most ISP's it probably would be better to use a specific non-default DNS server. But for FIOS, it's definitely faster using theirs.





I pay for 50/50 FIOS...





/e I get these speeds ANY time of day. Verizon always gives you a bit more than you pay for.

This post was edited by Ghot on Jan 14 2016 08:24pm

many isp's do this these days

This post was edited by King Atrhur on Jan 14 2016 08:27pm

I don't know about Canada, but in the US...most ISPs are NOT fiber all the way to the house. So, during Internet rush hours, like early in the morning and right after work, they suffer in speeds, because ISP's like Comcast for example, share the bandwidth via copper to the house, with the whole neighborhood.


I think Google Fiber is the only other ISP that offers fiber all the way to the house.

bell in canada is full fiber now.. if you get "fibe" installed they update all lines from the closest node to your connections in your house as well..

rogers cable just started switching to fiber within the past year.

it really all depends on wether you are in an urban setting, or rural really..

like I said depends on your region.

Got some of my fittings and my pump/res for my loop.

Still waiting on my blocks and tubes

which pump/res?I want to get a 5.25" one just unsure of which to get.

Well, most ISP are using fiber now. But most don't run fiber all the way to the house.
As for Canada, I'll have to take your word for it.

It's easy to check, though. Just go to where ever the inet FIRST hooks to your house...open the box, and look at the connection. If it's just coax, then it's copper to the house, the fiber to the house is just that...the end of the connector where it first connects to the house is ...a fiber cable. You can SEE the fiber optic strands if you unplug the connector.


On the Verizon side of the box (outdoors) the cable looks sort of like this...raw fiber bundle, shaped as shown in the pic. ISPs now seem to have different termination methods, so I can't be sure, if it's fiber or coax...

Excuse my shitty drawing...





When I was watching them install it, I was amazed at the end of the cable. It looked (sort of like the pic) like they just had a cable with a few hundred fibers in it, a metal screw on connector, and the ends of the fibers looked like they had been turned on a lathe...although it's more likely, they used something like a hot/knife/stripper/shaper ...kind of tool.

Even more likely, they probably have a machine that did those cables. Each fiber was still an individual fiber, no type of insulation around each of the hundreds of fibers. Somehow, they got them shaped like in the drawing above.
They weren't even melted together or anything...like I said...it looked more like lathe work.


/e I was amazed. I had worked with fiber way back it the day, (like 1983-ish) and there were no...pre terminated cables like this. We were pretty much doing every connection by hand with hot...hand tools.



/ee Someday when the weather is nicer, I'll take a pic of it.
I also googled fiber cable termination, and it seems that there are hundreds of different kinds now.

My FIOS was installed about 7-8 years ago.

This post was edited by Ghot on Jan 14 2016 09:19pm