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[smapdi]

I'll have to wait until the 4th or 5th to put in a probe.

And I believe I am getting the true public IP. The router sees the WAN side as 96.234.55.238 which is the same as this forum logs and as the address my dyndns forwarder resolves to.

[smapdi]

Just to give you guys an update:

I hooked up an in-line sniffer between the ONT and the router and didn't see anything out of the ordinary in terms of TCP. I did notice that the ONT side ethernet negotiated 10Base-T and the router side did 100Base-TX so I decided to check with Verizon. After convincing the techs I knew what was going on, they checked the ONT remotely and said that there was some kind of misconfiguration when they switched me from MoCA to Ethernet. Once they changed their setting the connection negotiated to 100Baste-TX and my line is back at 20/5.

Thanks Lycan and DavePDX for your help.

[Lycan]

Wow, thats cool. So it wasn't the router? Sweet. Also, the MoCa that you had, was that also with Verizon?

[smapdi]

Wow, thats cool. So it wasn't the router? Sweet. Also, the MoCa that you had, was that also with Verizon?

Yeah, it was not the router. The MoCA connection was the only one Verizon ran to their crappy router. I got the DIR-655 for the gigabit ethernet and 802.11n so I had to run my own CAT6 cables. The only thing that Verizon had to do then is disable to MoCA and enable the ethernet which apparently they did not do so well.

[Oregonian2]

Yeah, it was not the router. The MoCA connection was the only one Verizon ran to their crappy router. I got the DIR-655 for the gigabit ethernet and 802.11n so I had to run my own CAT6 cables. The only thing that Verizon had to do then is disable to MoCA and enable the ethernet which apparently they did not do so well.

My FiOS installer a month or so ago told me I that he had done only a couple other CAT-5 Ethernet installations in the last six months, the rest were all (MocA) cable installs.  If this is typical (and I think it probably is -- they WANT to sell triple-play packages) then the folk who do the remote config don't do it often either (not an excuse by any stretch, but perhaps an explanation).  It took my installer a little while to get it to work after installed and fussing with the config-folk may have been what he was battling with as well.

[smapdi]

My FiOS installer a month or so ago told me I that he had done only a couple other CAT-5 Ethernet installations in the last six months, the rest were all (MocA) cable installs.  If this is typical (and I think it probably is -- they WANT to sell triple-play packages) then the folk who do the remote config don't do it often either (not an excuse by any stretch, but perhaps an explanation).  It took my installer a little while to get it to work after installed and fussing with the config-folk may have been what he was battling with as well.

I can definitely see that. Back when I signed up for FIOS and asked why the installer was running a coax line instead of ethernet, he said that's for when I get FIOS TV....

I hate it when companies try to force you to get more of their services.....

[Lycan]

I heard that Verizon is having massive probalems with piggy-backing the TV on the Fiber lines and it's causing outages for internet serivices.

[Oregonian2]

I heard that Verizon is having massive probalems with piggy-backing the TV on the Fiber lines and it's causing outages for internet serivices.

Strange, it's not even using the same electronics (uses a third separate wavelength of light on the same fiber as do the up-going and down-going internet digital streams).  They been having optical transceiver problems or the like?

[Oregonian2]

I can definitely see that. Back when I signed up for FIOS and asked why the installer was running a coax line instead of ethernet, he said that's for when I get FIOS TV....

I [exploitive deleted] it when companies try to force you to get more of their services.....

Actually he was easily convinced not to run coax. No real "push" at all.   I explained how it was going to be twenty times more work for him to put coax to where it needed to go compared to what he had to do with CAT5.  For CAT-5 he needed a short run up the side of the house and to mount a CAT-5 (RJ-45) jack near the floor of the second floor almost above where the ONT was (although that was on the inside of the garage wall). I then had CAT-5 already there to take it toward the middle of the house where the wireless router needed to be to get proper coverage and where he'd otherwise need to run coax (previous DSL setup).  Plus just a few months prior we had three HD DVR's from DirecTV installed which took three installers nearly three hours to put in.  FiOS TV wasn't a likely scenario for a while. :-)   He also was easy to convince not to try installing stuff on or fussing with my computer.  :-)  An AOL person I'm not (I design telecom hardware by day).  :-)