[theantidote]

Does the author realize that the actiontec router can be disabled and used just like a cable modem? That's what I do at home and use a WRT54G instead. I also use opendns instead of Verizon's DNS servers. Latency is pretty low for me.

[lallysingh]

OpenDNS is nice, but they give you their crap redirects instead of a proper failure message.

Consider the Level 3 dns servers: 4.1.1.1 - 4.1.1.6

[kmt]

Did you mean 4.2.2.1 - 4.2.2.6?

[lallysingh]

YES. Sorry about that.

[alnayyir]

I actually have cable and am considering getting a symmetric 20/20 FioS connection from Verizon and I was thinking the same damn thing the whole article.

1. Switch to different nameservers. 2. Don't use the fucking actiontec as a router.

All that remains is his complaints about slowly degrading performance, and assuming that's true, my experiences with cable modems are seriously not any better.

I've given up on ever having a reliable connection at home.