Looks like I may have been a little too hasty. seems like traffic for Aether is routing a little differently, and will function, but I wasn't able to connect to Primal successfully.

While you can use a vpn, Fios customers already have an fantastic network, and you shouldn't have to pay a 3rd party for better routing. If you're still having trouble, I recommend using the reduced MTU trick that I posted above until the packet routing gets fixed. (You may need to edit the connection name, if you're not using "Local Area Connection 1". You can get the correct name from the output of ipconfig /all)