So. I gave this a try.

"Working Device" e.g. the non-Dell laptop that has been accessing this FIOS network for months without issue
Verizon's own speed test 11Down/34 Up, Latency: 22 ms
Ookla Speed Test Ping 18ms, 18-20down/23.4 up
Not Bad

Dell Laptop One
Post release/renew/flushdns
Verizon 2.1 Down 15 Up, Latency 12 ms
Ookla ping is 11 ms, 2.75 to 3.11 down, 33-45 to 40.69 up (what's up with that UP speed?!?!)
Ping of 8.8.8.8 said round trip of 4 packets sent/received is avg 16ms
I don't think that's so good for this machine. Its an improvement from sh!t and nothing. But, still...

Working on second Dell Laptop now. More to follow. Though I'm predicting not so good.

Dell Laptop Two
Phenom speeds up and down using buddy's hotspot. Now on to instructions and further tests.
Connected back to FIOS.

Ran ipconfig as above
Ping 8.8.8.8
4 packets sent received 0% loss min 9ms Max 37 ms, acg 18 ms
Verizon speed test site
5 down / 41 up latency 15 ms
That sucks

Ookla on second machine
Ping 13 ms, download = 1.19-1.31, upload = 42.2. Again, ... is up with that up speed but sh!t down speed.

Argh!