I had FiOS installed in May 2014, and was provisioned for 50/25 (later changed to 50/50) using a coax WAN connection. I elected to use a purchased MI424WR Rev G rather than renting a router from Verizon. I could never get speeds above about 25/25 (posted here http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r29604414-75-75-only-getting-75-50). I also had Verizon change my ONT from coax to Ethernet; no change in observed speeds.
Thanks to the fine folks over in the Direct forum, Verizon rechecked my provisioning, connection, and cross-connects; when that did not fix the problem, they scheduled a truck roll. The technician rechecked my installation and finally suggested substituting a MI424WR Rev I. That change did the trick and I saw speeds of better than 50/50, depending on time of day.
Now that I was seeing the correct speeds, I decided to go back to a purchased router, with the intent of eventually moving to option 6 documented here http://www.dslreports.com/faq/16077. I purchased a used MI424WR Rev I and substituted it for the rented router.
I then decided to move forward with the change to Option 6 using a Netgear N300/WNR3500 I already had. After going through the steps to release the ONT DHCP lease, I hooked up the N300 and found I was back to 25/25ish speeds. I decided to do a little more experimentation with other MI424WRs as follows:
1. Substituting a MI424WR Rev F resulted in speeds in the 10/25 range.
2. Substituting the first Rev G resulted in speeds in the 25/25 range.
3. Going back to the purchased Rev I resulted in speeds at or above 50/50.
I did release the WAN DHCP lease before each router change, and I performed a factory reset on all routers prior to each test. The reps over in the Direct forum confirmed that the Rev F and G models should be able to support the 50/50 speeds. The Netgear has a gigabit WAN port, so it should be able to handle 50/50 without issue.
Has anyone else run into a similar issue? Searches here and around the Internet didn't turn up anything relevant.
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