Daisy Chains And FiOS

It took some RAM testing, the old fashion way to get my PC back up and running. Even before I approved the comments making the RAM check suggestion as seen in this post, I opted to pull a stick that I had some suspicions on. Sure enough, that did the trick, problems solved… including random cursor freezes when I finally got things working otherwise. So that is behind me.

On another front, I decided to go ahead and tackle the next upcoming issue. Those of you with FiOS who like me, were foolish enough to go with the Coax vs the CAT5 option now stuck with the Actiontec router, likely find that when things get to really moving on the box, you end up with NAT errors. Basically, FiOS may be fast, but the Verizon router obviously needs to be re-thought out.

So doing what any geek would do, I decided to go ahead and daisy chain my Actiontec into my much better D-Link Gamer’s Lounge router. The Gamer’s Lounge may be dated, but it remains the strongest performing router to date. And as luck would have it, the instructions on getting the daisy chain setup with the Actiontec into bridge mode is fairly straight forward.

Any latency or speed loss? Nope, things are doing really well. The last speed test gave me readings of 21 Mbps down and 18 Mbps up. Works for me as the pings look good as well. Why the crazy upload speed? Simple, when I am doing any video work or FTP stuff, having access to 20-ish speeds mean I get things done MUCH faster.

Am I sorry I did not switch out the routers sooner? Definitely, I am actually noticing better performance since setting up the daisy chain. If you are on FiOS and are sick of NAT going nose up on you when you are simply trying to enjoy the speed you are paying for, use the previously linked tutorial…but follow it VERY closely as you can screw things up pretty easily.