DO NOT allow Verizon to tell you that their test alone is the only way to check speeds between your router and the Verizon head end… this is like your new car dealer telling you that the car THEY just sold you gets 100 miles to the gallon, even though every other measure and the cost of the fuel that you are putting into it shows that you are only getting 25 miles to the gallon.This alone is over $700 of unnecessary equipment that they gladly tell you to buy if you want gigabit service. DO NOT fall for the ads telling you that you need to buy the new G3100 router and new G3200 extender… your existing G1100 Quantum Gateway router and ActionTec WCB6200Q extender can and will work JUST FINE for any available speeds that Verizon currently offers (even though they can’t deliver anything near gigabit to your home).On average, they deliver about 250MB up and 125MB down usually. That seems to be the realistic top speed that they can deliver, ever, on a really good day, in clear weather, at midnight, on a Sunday. Here is the simple truth, for those of you considering higher speeds from Verizon FiOS: AND, they do it month after month after month after month… Now in my opinion, actually in fact, this is no different than going to the deli counter and ordering one pound of cheese and discovering when you get home, that THEY ONLY GAVE YOU ¼ POUND BUT CHARGED YOU FOR THE POUND. I am paying for, and have been told by Verizon, that I am getting Gigabit (one thousand, million bits of data per second) delivered to my home and I can prove about five different ways that they ear only delivering about 25% of that speed, BUT THEY CONTINUE TO CHARGE ME FULL RATE REGARDLESS. I have been an early adopter for years and typically try to implement technology often before it’s fully cooked and maybe that’s what’s going on in my situation, but I am wildly frustrated by Verizon’s bald-faced lies about the performance of my home network. Is it only me, or are other high-end FiOS customers completely dissatisfied with their “Gigabit” (or anything faster than about 100MB) service from Verizon FiOS ?

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