Verizon Fios, Azureus, & Actiontec MI-424-WR router

[barfly]

I'm sorry for not replying sooner, i've been pretty busy with all sorts of things lately. In any case, i haven't done any router tweaking myself but i placed a call to Verizon FIOS tech support and asked them to check my settings, after that i asked the guy to set the optimal settings for this router which he did. As a result i've seen some improvement in download speeds for both systems connected to the router.

One other thing i have learned is that the reason i'm not getting 10 MB/s download times is because all of the websites limit their download speeds. For example, Microsoft limits their downloads to 2 MB/s, Yahoo - 1 MB/s, many other websites support only below 1 MB/s. In essence, the only benefit of having the 10 MB/s service is the ability to do similtaneous multiple downloads at the website's top allowed download speed. For example, i want to download 5 files from Microsoft (they allow only up to 2 MB/S), i can download all 5 simultaneosly at 2 MB/s, if its more than 5 files than the download speeds will be lower. If one has 20MB/S service then one can do 10 files at 2 Mb/S at the same time and so. I was able to confirm this though i was getting a little less than 2 MB/s for each of the 5 files, perhaps because their servers were overwhelmed with many download requests. Anyway, this is what i was told by the Verizon tech support guy, i thought i'd share it with everyone else, it makes perfect sense to me.

[kenc51]

Barfly, what you say is true...in most cases, but there are alot of sites out there that can supply more than ~2mb download and the amount of them is growing!