[Cialug] DSL v. Cable (Ankeny)

[Daniel Juliano]

I know this is an old topic, but I'm going through archives at this 
point.  I've had non-stop issues with Mediacom for the last three 
months, and it's getting consistently worse.  If I had to guess, it 
would be the ip phone crud they are pushing thru is grabbing all the 
bandwidth.  I'm guessing they have the ability to throttle everything 
else on the line to assure a good phone line.

=Dan

>>> I had to unplug and plugin my cable modem again last night.  I've
>>> had lots of little outages with Mediacom.  Frankly, the little outages
>>> are worse than a major one.  It gets frustrating to go to a page and 
>>> it loads fine, only to click a link on the page and you get a timeout
>>> error.  Last night, GMail actually reported a corrupt page to me.  
>>> I'm guessing during the transfer, the javascript client didn't get
>>> everything it was expecting so it reported corruption, and I couldn't
>>> do anything until I did a reload of the page.  I can't trust Mediacom
>>> with my internet service, and they want me to trust them with my phone
>>> service?  Seriously?  And now they're rolling out 10Mb service?
>>> C'mon, shouldn't you have rock-solid service before adding new 
>>> services?