High Packet Loss and Lag While Gaming on Verizon Fios
High packet loss and lag is your enemy when using bandwidth-intensive applications such as online gaming, streaming or VoIP calls. This is usually generated by network congestion. You will surely recognize the presence of packet loss while streaming on Twitch or playing Fortnite when you’re dropping frames and you get choppy video due to bitrate fluctuations.
One of the biggest Internet service providers in the USA is Verizon with their Fios service. Unfortunately Verizon Fios packet loss is a real issue that is affecting gamers and streamers everywhere. However, there’s a solution to all this, which has been confirmed by many members of online gaming community: Speedify!
My packet loss is 21%. Thats how ASS the fios in this house is and none of the other renters are home. How!?!? I AM BEYOND BLOWN
— Excelsior (@Crislex) September 24, 2018
At all? No. It's just >50% packet loss makes certain things unusable (games) and making use of websites annoying as fuck. Many NE area Verizon FiOS customers are reporting issues.
— Michael Cook (@demonstar) July 29, 2018
Read below to see how Speedify can help fix Verizon Fios packet loss.
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Verizon Fios Packet Loss – Is It Me or Them?
When you play an online game like Fortnite or stream video online, information is passed between your device (e.g. a smartphone or a computer) and the game / streaming servers. This information is transferred in small bundles of data called packets. Unfortunately, sometimes packets are lost along the way, which slows down your connection. In severe cases of Verizon Fios packet loss, you may find that you become disconnected from gameplay entirely!
How to Convince Verizon Fios Packet Loss Isn’t Your Problem
The first thing you should do when you encounter Verizon Fios packet loss is check your Internet connection health with Verizon’s own speed test tool or a network diagnostics tool. You may run speed and latency tests just to discover that due to network congestion, faulty or outdated hardware or even software bugs, the bitrate of your Internet connection is fluctuating and even dropping at times, which automatically generates packet loss while live streaming or online gaming using Verizon Fios.
So, then, you might want to take this up with Verizon, but that won’t always fix your issue, and it’ll certainly not be a fast fix. Resetting your modem, router and network adapters might lower the rate temporarily, but eventually if you’re getting a lossy Internet connection, you’ll be right where you started, with high Verizon Fios packet loss rates.
How Speedify Solves Verizon Fios Packet Loss
Speedify is a fast bonding VPN service that uses channel bonding technology to combine multiple Internet connections at the same time into one super pipe for increased bandwidth and reliability, while lowering latency and minimizing Verizon Fios packet loss.
The secret lays in Speedify’s fast error correction features, even with just one Internet connection. It instantly detects when a network packet has been lost, and resends it before the Internet protocol realizes that. Thereby, slowdowns are prevented before they occur.
Speedify’s Performance on Minimizing Verizon Fios Packet Loss
In the tests we’ve ran with Speedify, even on a single link you’re largely shielded from damages caused by losing over 1% of the packets. More impressive still, at 5% packet loss the throughput over Speedify is well over double that of regular TCP. And this goes on while also keeping your private information safe!
Naturally, if you’re using Speedify to combine multiple Internet connections the throughput is even higher for the same packet loss level than while not running Speedify, delivering over triple the performance with just 2 bonded connections.
If you’re tired of dealing with heavy Verizon Fios packet loss, get started with Speedify today!
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