A big question is what speed do you get from 8pm - 10 pm. I've had FIOS 25 Mbps for several years. Although it always hits the rated speed for 22 hours a day, it drops to around 3 Mbps, occasionally only 1 Mbps, during prime Netflix viewing hours. Since I like HD movie streams, which can require between 6 Mbps and 9 Mbps, my connection becomes worthless to me in the evening. I briefly tried Comcast, only to learn that they throttle back download speed after a certain number of MBs of download, to something like 20% of the rated speed. Since most speedtest apps run just brief download tests, that throttling back often gets overlooked. Too bad I don't watch movies in the morning. Does anyone suffer from this same Netflix effect? Or do I have more Netflix neighbors than most?
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A big question is what speed do you get from 8pm - 10 pm. I've had FIOS 25 Mbps for several years. Although it always hits the rated speed for 22 hours a day, it drops to around 3 Mbps, occasionally only 1 Mbps, during prime Netflix viewing hours. Since I like HD movie streams, which can require between 6 Mbps and 9 Mbps, my connection becomes worthless to me in the evening. I briefly tried Comcast, only to learn that they throttle back download speed after a certain number of MBs of download, to something like 20% of the rated speed. Since most speedtest apps run just brief download tests, that throttling back often gets overlooked. Too bad I don't watch movies in the morning. Does anyone suffer from this same Netflix effect? Or do I have more Netflix neighbors than most?