Re: Verizon Fios or Vios and wireless performance

2016-09-25 Thread Jonathan Cohn
OK, so it is not just a interference issue that the FIOS has, it is just not up to handling the bandwidth. My Apple device is several years old betwfore they had separated the 802.11N from the 802.11(BG) antenna let alone have 802.11AC support I currently have very little traffic that stays on

Re: Verizon Fios or Vios and wireless performance

2016-09-23 Thread Scott Granados
Jonathan, it’s my considered technical opinion that the verizon router sucks the big one.:) Now there are several types, mine is some sort of Quantum gateway. In my setup I have the router doing the routing and the airport Extreme as the access point. You can use your own router but you have

Re: Verizon Fios or Vios and wireless performance

2016-09-23 Thread Blee Blat
You should expect whatever they gave you to be fairly crappy. They are not interested in giving you a good router. They just ship out the cheapest thing they have so it will be easier for tech support and such. Putting the modem in bridge mode and using your own router would be better. I did

Verizon Fios or Vios and wireless performance

2016-09-22 Thread Jonathan Cohn
When we got Verizon service last year they required us to get their router / modem combo. does anybody know what flavor of 802.11 their routers support? I would be thinking my 6 year old Airport Extreme 802.11N (first gen with N ) would be outperformed by Verizon's latest greatest