How many streams can you run simultaneously on FIOS before it gets choppy?

I got 50/50 plan.

I am running 4 IP Cams to monitor my house 24/7 and motion trigger recording. Netflix and Amazon Prime here and there on weekday and heavy on weekend. No choppy and very happy.

Bandwidth Seeker Wrote:
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> How many streams can you run simultaneously on
> FIOS before it gets choppy?

As many as you want, just don't cross them. That would be bad.

You need to give more details and even then you may not get a good answer.

Depends on what, from where, over what internally, using which level of service, etc.

A single stream may studder at times depending on source.

So, the most realistic answer that you're going to get is somewhere between one and many.

Streams of what? Piss?

There are too many variables to give you the answer you're probably looking for...

Wired connection or via wifi?
Do you have QOS turned on?
Are you planning on downloading large files while you "stream"?
From what service are you streaming? HBOGo? Hulu? Youtube?
Where is the "streaming" server geographically located?
What day of the week and time of day are you planning on running simultaneous "streams"?

The answers to these questions and quite a few others I didn't mention will have more of a bearing on choppiness than the bandwidth that FiOS can deliver.

Asiano Wrote:
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> I got 50/50 plan.
>
> I am running 4 IP Cams to monitor my house 24/7
> and motion trigger recording. Netflix and Amazon
> Prime here and there on weekday and heavy on
> weekend. No choppy and very happy.

Excellent idea, how much did that cost ya?

Please don't make fun of my tech ignorance.

I have 4 rooms wired for tv.

Is there a way to get internet in other rooms without Verizon coming out to wire and charging me $80 per room?

not internet--cable.

FiOS is money is all I can tell you. minor issues, if any and they are light years faster than COX or Comcast

I'm currently on COX. If I fire up a wireless Netflix stream of a movie or TV show on my laptop and my son fires up a wireless Amazon Prime stream also of a movie or TV through the same router to his Nintendo Wii then both streams are choppy. It doesn't matter the day of week nor time of day. I have a brand new Lenovo laptop running Windows 8, the Wii is a few years old and my router is a Linksys EA6500 HD Video Pro AC1750. Will FIOS improve my situation or am I pissing up a rope here?

how the hell we call Fiber Optic when wire come to your house is a telephone wire? that one part I do not understand.
anyone know?

How the hell we call Fiber Optic when the line come to your house is a telephone wire, that part I do not understand at all.
Anyone know please educate me.
Thank you,
HtD

I in the process of dumping FIOS. I have the old 35/35mbps plan. Since January I have been having nothing but problems with their internet. I am lucky if I get 20mbps down and 5 mbps up. This is when connected directly to the router. Several techs have been out and can't figure out why? Router, OMT and other items replaced and wiring to router switched from coaxial to ethernet cable. No change. Now my picture gets pixelated every 10 minutes then goes back to normal. FIOS customer service sucks. Every time I call trying to get an adjustment to my account they claim internet speeds are not guaranteed and the specs say up to 35mbps and the pixelation is a problem with my TVs (four different HDTVs 1 LG, 1 Samsung, 2 Sonys), they then offer to send a tech out and we start all over again. This has been going on for months. I am done with FIOS!

advice Wrote:
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> Please don't make fun of my tech ignorance.
>
> I have 4 rooms wired for tv.
>
> Is there a way to get internet in other rooms
> without Verizon coming out to wire and charging me
> $80 per room?


Have you heard of this interesting concept called WiFi?

Asiano Wrote:
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> I got 50/50 plan.
>
> I am running 4 IP Cams to monitor my house 24/7
> and motion trigger recording. Netflix and Amazon
> Prime here and there on weekday and heavy on
> weekend. No choppy and very happy.


4 IP Camera's and Motion trigger recording is using the internal bandwidth of your home router or WiFi device, that has nothing to do with your external bandwidth. Big difference between LAN and WAN.

Watching a movie on Netflix, you're buffering the stream and don't realize it. Long story short, you're paying for more bandwidth than you need and you're trying to sound smart and you're actually a dumbass.

Howard the Duck Wrote:
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> How the hell we call Fiber Optic when the line
> come to your house is a telephone wire, that part
> I do not understand at all.
> Anyone know please educate me.
> Thank you,
> HtD


It's not. It's a fiber run to the house which terminates at a Optical Network Termination (ONT) box on premises where the switch from optical to copper happens. From the ONT it's a networked connection to your router and STBs. The copper drop to the house usually gets pulled.

Bandwidth Seeker Wrote:
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> I'm currently on COX. If I fire up a wireless
> Netflix stream of a movie or TV show on my laptop
> and my son fires up a wireless Amazon Prime stream
> also of a movie or TV through the same router to
> his Nintendo Wii then both streams are choppy. It
> doesn't matter the day of week nor time of day. I
> have a brand new Lenovo laptop running Windows 8,
> the Wii is a few years old and my router is a
> Linksys EA6500 HD Video Pro AC1750. Will FIOS
> improve my situation or am I pissing up a rope
> here?


Sounds like it's your wifi. Streaming HD video over wifi is a crap shoot to begin with let alone when it becomes contentious with more than one user.