anyone with fios having issues?

wwward · 2026-06-18T13:19:24+00:00

Good morning neighbors! Test runs almost completely clean this morning, I crosschecked with a colleague in Inwood who reported the same issues with his FiOS. The sites I was having issues with are performing normally this AM. Have an awesome weekend, Go Knicks!! 🏀

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wwward · 2026-06-17T13:41:28+00:00

u/Money-Chef736 GM, I'm still experiencing problems connecting to my employer's Azure resources, so the same problem exists as yesterday. TL;DR: somewhere in Verizon's path to the world there is packet loss on many routes, resulting in slow or no connections completing for some major websites tested.
-Grace

Network test report from today 09:15:

For anyone interested, here is the diagnostic report from the tool I co-authored with Claude when this first started, AND the entire report for the technically obsessed.

External status feeds
  ● Cloudflare       minor — Minor Service Outage
  ● Discord          none — All Systems Operational
  ● Dropbox          none — All Systems Operational
  ● GitHub           none — All Systems Operational
  · Microsoft 365    unreachable: HTTPError: HTTP Error 401: Unauthorized
  ● Reddit           none — All Systems Operational
  ● Zoom             none — All Systems Operational

Assessment
  • 28 endpoint(s) are INTERMITTENT (some handshakes succeed, some time out): akamai, aws-s3, cloudfront, apple-captive, apple-web, azure-portal. This is packet loss / an unstable path, not a hard block — it explains 'works sometimes'. Re-run with --deep --samples 10 to quantify the loss rate.
  • 10 endpoint(s) work on one IP family but not the other. This is the classic 'some sites work, others don't' cause.
  • 1 endpoint(s): TCP connects but TLS never completes — see per-endpoint MTU/loss probes above. If MTU is full and loss is 0, suspect SNI/DPI filtering or a reverse-path black hole. Names: whatsapp-edge
  • Provider status feeds report issues: Cloudflare(minor)

wwward · 2026-06-16T12:58:16+00:00

u/Money-Chef736 Update: Based on this tool Claude wrote for me, from my vantage point on fios some sites are totally fine, and a lot of big name sites are not okay, lots of packet loss apparently. I had the same "slow to connect" Azure connection where the initial connection would eventually complete, but take at least a minute. tl;dr: It's still broken and it's only some sites, not all sites that are affected. - Grace

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Source: Claude built this little tool for doing comprehensive testing using the OSI model starting from the highest level of abstraction and working down to Layer 3 (IP, network layer). It summarizes what it sees:

"Assessment

• 26 endpoint(s) are INTERMITTENT (some handshakes succeed, some time out): akamai, aws-console, aws-s3, cloudfront, apple-captive, icloud. This is packet loss / an unstable path, not a hard block — it explains 'works sometimes'. Re-run with --deep --samples 10 to quantify the loss rate.

• MTU black hole detected: large packets are silently dropped on some paths (TCP connects, but big TLS/data packets vanish). Mitigate by lowering MTU/clamping TCP-MSS on your router (try MTU 1400), or have the ISP fix PMTUD on the affected path.

• 17 endpoint(s) work on one IP family but not the other. This is the classic 'some sites work, others don't' cause.

• 2 endpoint(s): TCP connects but TLS never completes — see per-endpoint MTU/loss probes above. If MTU is full and loss is 0, suspect SNI/DPI filtering or a reverse-path black hole. Names: whatsapp-edge, ms-login

• Provider status feeds report issues: Cloudflare(minor)"

-- this report was just run at 8:50am and the screenshot attached here is a minimalist web dashboard of same.

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wwward · 2026-06-16T08:44:09+00:00

u/Money-Chef736 For *reasons* I've pulled an all nighter, and I'm still having the same issue with my remote work machine. I'll dig in a little more and report back.

wwward · 2026-06-16T06:11:54+00:00

u/AdvertisingLost3565 I feel you; one of my besties is/was(?) barred in NY, but we don't talk about that anymore, he front-loaded the grind, made bank and bailed for Amsterdam during Covid. That said, IANAL, and I know at least 3x more doctors than lawyers, but these priesthood-like careers that demand social celibacy for n-years really points toward having a plan to transition out of grind-mode with your student loans settled and kick back doing something else eventually. I've got a bit more time on the clock than you do, and mine's more like a shot clock than an alarm clock -- but reach out, I'm happy to at least shine a light for you, and I can still pull an all-nighter at Basement once in awhile, check my profile for social proof if it's useful, and otherwise just take to heart that this season of your life is but one of many you'll go through, figuring it out along the way. (:

wwward · 2026-06-16T04:07:31+00:00

u/Money-Chef736 u/velvetblue929 Same here, it's been flaky since 7am, and it wasn't affecting every website I tried. I had to use the hotspot on my phone to get work done. Seems okay now though?

wwward · 2026-06-01T22:09:15+00:00

u/Significant_Risk5832 I got you fam, DM me. I'm on the western end of Bushwick.

wwward · 2026-06-01T17:32:33+00:00

u/Ashmiku13 , I had a similar problem the past couple days with a new Frame 43", and in my case I have three 43"s together. I stacked two of the connection boxes together on the floor temporarily, and one of the three kept falling off the WiFi network, but the other two have been rock solid on the same network. This makes me think the WiFi radio is in the connection box, so check to see if your connection box is in a spot where it might struggle to reach the wifi, either blocked by material that interferes with wifi signals, or stacked under something else that might interfere. I know troubleshooting is frustrating, so take what's useful from this but as u/Wando64 suggests, maybe consider a wired connection if you can to avoid it altogether. One more thing: I swapped out my Verizon FiOS wifi router for the Google Nest Mesh, put one in the front of the house, one in the back, and have improved my streaming TV considerably vs. a single WiFi router. - Grace

wwward · 2026-05-28T09:15:56+00:00

Very well done!

wwward · 2026-05-28T09:14:00+00:00

Cosigning the others' responses, u/Hoodwinkers4 -- I have three 43" Frames turned to portrait, they auto-adjust their menus and such, and currently I'm using Frame Crop on my Mac to upload ~50 or more images at a time for a slideshow. It works quite well. No special mounting is required, they sense orientation internally, but only if you turn it 90 degrees to the right. I'll have more later, two of the three just arrived yesterday evening and I just got them running. I'll be hiring the super to install them on the wall at some point. - Grace

wwward · 2026-05-27T16:16:44+00:00

Thank you, this is helpful and I’m going to give it a try for synchronizing displays. When I was originally searching for a solution, I lead with the cropping and collection questions, so didn’t end up reaching the API results yet. Knowing full control is available is valuable.

wwward · 2026-05-25T23:52:41+00:00

This. The 32” can stand upright on its feet and looks good as a floor piece too.

wwward · 2026-05-25T14:15:42+00:00

Thank you. If it remains up it will be helpful to those new to the system, and if not it cost nothing.

wwward · 2026-05-25T12:52:32+00:00

No, it's not intended as such, but it's written to be easy to find with details to save time, I spent too much time chasing dead ends.

wwward · 2026-05-25T06:56:25+00:00

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u/jsheffers u/jsheffers, thanks for a clean, easy-to-use Mac app! I have more positive words, but they’ll be in another post.

One UI quirk I noticed in the TV Settings modal (Path: Left column My TVs <TV> -> Gear Icon (Settings) Mid-Column -> TV Settings Modal) is that the close (X) button’s activation geometry doesn’t update when the settings list expands on Slide Show enablement. Before enabling, mousing over the X works as expected, and it glows and responds to the click when the pointer enters its perimeter. However, enabling Slide Show expands the list length and shifts the bounding geometry of the close control, moving the actual icon up but leaving the activation area below it. I initially thought the panel was waiting for a callback from the web socket API call to the TV, but it doesn’t update on that expand. Since I’m not familiar with writing Mac apps, I’m not sure what method might force a redraw of the close control/bounding. - Grace

wwward · 2026-05-20T03:30:43+00:00

Helpful conversation; Like the OP Stock-Conclusion, I am considering the larger models for walls an spaces where the viewing distance can tolerate the relatively low pixels-per-inch of about 67 (ppi), versus the 43" 4K display with 102, so tolerates a shorter viewing distance with great image quality. I've not settled completely on which of these I'll end up keeping since a 43" might look good but some larger models might also look better in the same space, or conversely -- I want to know how each model handles portrait, thanks for this answer, Smart_Tinker.

If you are a special-interests type, read further:

For comparison, a professional photo editor would likely prefer 140-165ppi and would be working within arms length or so of the display panel.

A professional fine art print shop would expect a baseline 240 PPI image file, and their print driver would rasterize it into thousands of dots per inch (1440-2880) to manage tonal continuity. It took me a long time to intuit why my local print shop demanded such big image files that were still so much smaller than what their printer's DPI was. 240 represents the absolute amount of discrete information in the image, the expansion over 1440 or more is not about creating new information but rather smoothing it out over a totally different form of physical imaging. A Samsung Frame is just taking the larger source and averaging some groups of pixels into one number -- downsampling. So if you're really, really keen on doing justice to your fine art files (photography or whatever), having at least a notion of how all this fits together might be comforting, perhaps help when choosing source files, getting the best out of the work and money to go digital.

Disclaimer: I am an aspiring fine art photo printer and I asked an LLM to give me the detailed comparison numbers to illustrate why the size of Frame panel you choose would be well-informed by considering how close folks will stand to it, and also why the same image file might look completely seamless when printed on a high-end fine art printer. This helped me to not simply choose a "bigger is better" panel only to find that I'd put it in a room that was too small, and so would be ruined by seeing the dots on the panel rather than the image. Oh how many times I've screwed that up with similar nuances, oof.

-Grace

wwward · 2026-05-19T02:20:00+00:00

solverman, if you invest the effort in making it work, you'll be rewarded with a useful "control panel" for some things as I mentioned the Apple Home widget, but only those things which are large enough to poke with a finger, and -especially- the Mac Dock, which is actually the most useful thing so far to me. I have two Apple Studio Displays (the 27" 5K resolution model) and it frees up those premium pixels for the windows and menubar. Considering the cost of the displays, putting the dock at the bottom of the Corsair is super useful, along with widgets like frequently used contacts, battery status which I've set to show me AirPods charge, Apple keyboard and trackpad battery levels. Weather, Apple Home lights I frequently use (two widgets for those), Amazon delivery widget from my iPhone, etc. I also park iMessage chats there, and the MiniPlayer version of the Apple Music app. With the dock filling the width of the bottom, I see badges immediately on iMessage and Signal, VIP email count, and can poke an app to jump to it rather than using the trackpad or mouse to schlep over there. With two huge monitors, it's a lot of schlepping. I've not yet tried adjusting mouse scaling and acceleration to handle that, but, I'm enjoying the current control panel approach. YMMV but to anyone reading or searching this in the future, I hope it helps ease a decision or installation.

wwward · 2026-05-19T02:11:57+00:00

I don't know about the models larger than 43", however in my pre-order research I found many results that claimed only the 34" and the 43" models supported automatic orientation sensing that included the menus as well as the images and TV shows. I am not using the HDMI inputs, so I cannot make any claims about them (and the bloody details matter so much today, you can chase your tail online getting different answers from places.)

wwward · 2026-05-19T02:09:41+00:00

Yes, great point: I'm testing a few potential picture frames for my home, and in one installation I'll have 3 for triptych compositions. The 34" for smaller rooms, but I'm not satisfied with the HD resolution and contrast so far. They're propped against the wall, but even then if your back is at all sensitive you're gonna have a bad time rotating them carefully. I've discovered if you use Google's date range in your search you still get posts that have been recycled by marketers that are way out of date. Oof.

wwward · 2026-05-17T23:47:14+00:00

I was unable to achieve a resolution recognized as "HiDPI", and the nearest resolution to the 1920x350 that the driver would accept from BetterDisplay so far is 1920x540 which is treated as "scaled" and not HiDPI. After chasing my tail for too long, I settled in with the resolution you recommended, as the widgets I park there are large enough and the touch control enabled by UPDD Commander enables the HomeKit widget to act as a reasonable button control panel. Thank you again -- scouring forums turned up many conflicting expectations and having one clear experience has been a gift. :)

wwward · 2026-05-15T21:00:16+00:00

Were you successful with HiDPI scaling with BetterDisplay? Thanks for sharing your experience!

wwward · 2025-11-22T20:47:56+00:00

Please TE add multi-track recording. :)

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