Many people seem to get consistent “full” gigabit speeds around the clock with FiOS, but I do see slowdowns, regularly. Definitely slower during evenings and weekends vs during weekdays here in the south end of Richmond, VA.
I have never seen download speeds over 850 (direct from the ONT, local Ookla speed test server, using various computers) and my service more commonly tests in the 650 to 750 Mbps range, I do see dips in peak periods down to the upper 400’s. These speeds have gradually trended lower in recent years. Verizon has come out a couple of times to check stuff and each time they say everything is working fine.
This week one of their bucket trucks snagged a low-hanging line in my alley, pulling down a span of overhead fiber and old copper lines, which in the process tore their box off the side of my house, pulled off some siding, and yanked a knotted bundle of excess fiber patch cable out of my router though a small hole in my exterior wall and out into my yard. They just finished replacing three spans of aerial fiber (“squirrel damage” lol) and replaced everything from my ONT to the pole. No notable difference in performance since the rebuild. Whatever is constraining my network speed is at least something at the neighborhood level, not my connection.
tl;dr: While it seems uncommon, yes, there can be some variability to FiOS speeds.
Many people seem to get consistent “full” gigabit speeds around the clock with FiOS, but I do see slowdowns, regularly. Definitely slower during evenings and weekends vs during weekdays here in the south end of Richmond, VA.
I have never seen download speeds over 850 (direct from the ONT, local Ookla speed test server, using various computers) and my service more commonly tests in the 650 to 750 Mbps range, I do see dips in peak periods down to the upper 400’s. These speeds have gradually trended lower in recent years. Verizon has come out a couple of times to check stuff and each time they say everything is working fine.
This week one of their bucket trucks snagged a low-hanging line in my alley, pulling down a span of overhead fiber and old copper lines, which in the process tore their box off the side of my house, pulled off some siding, and yanked a knotted bundle of excess fiber patch cable out of my router though a small hole in my exterior wall and out into my yard. They just finished replacing three spans of aerial fiber (“squirrel damage” lol) and replaced everything from my ONT to the pole. No notable difference in performance since the rebuild. Whatever is constraining my network speed is at least something at the neighborhood level, not my connection.
tl;dr: While it seems uncommon, yes, there can be some variability to FiOS speeds.