  We analyze the behavior of Standard Model matter propagating in a slice of
AdS_5 in the presence of infrared-brane kinetic terms. Brane kinetic terms are
naturally generated through radiative corrections and can also be present at
tree level. The effect of the brane kinetic terms is to expell the heavy KK
modes from the infrared-brane, and hence to reduce their coupling to the
localized Higgs field. In a previous work we showed that sizable gauge kinetic
terms can allow KK mode masses as low as a few TeV, compatible with present
precision measurements. We study here the effect of fermion brane kinetic terms
and show that they ameliorate the behavior of the theory for third generation
fermions localized away from the infrared brane, reduce the contribution of the
third generation quarks to the oblique correction parameters and mantain a good
fit to the precision electroweak data for values of the KK masses of the order
of the weak scale.
