How 20 mbps Internet can be slower than 8 mbps

Re:How 20 mbps Internet can be slower than 8 mbps by theantidote on Tuesday February 03, 2009 @12:58PM (#464333)

Does the author realize that the actiontec router can be disabled and used just like a cable modem? That's what I do at home and use a WRT54G instead. I also use opendns instead of Verizon's DNS servers. Latency is pretty low for me.

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Re:How 20 mbps Internet can be slower than 8 mbps by lallysingh on Tuesday February 03, 2009 @06:13PM (#464921)

OpenDNS is nice, but they give you their crap redirects instead of a proper failure message.

Consider the Level 3 dns servers: 4.1.1.1 - 4.1.1.6

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Re:How 20 mbps Internet can be slower than 8 mbps by kmt on Tuesday February 03, 2009 @11:50PM (#465271)

Did you mean 4.2.2.1 - 4.2.2.6?

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Re:How 20 mbps Internet can be slower than 8 mbps by lallysingh on Wednesday February 04, 2009 @12:13AM (#465284)

YES. Sorry about that.

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Re:How 20 mbps Internet can be slower than 8 mbps by alnayyir on Wednesday February 04, 2009 @05:23AM (#465546)

I actually have cable and am considering getting a symmetric 20/20 FioS connection from Verizon and I was thinking the same damn thing the whole article.

1. Switch to different nameservers. 2. Don't use the fucking actiontec as a router.

All that remains is his complaints about slowly degrading performance, and assuming that's true, my experiences with cable modems are seriously not any better.

I've given up on ever having a reliable connection at home.

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