[Cialug] DSL v. Cable (Ankeny)

[Brandon Griffis]

Sorry, this is a little OT from the original question but the IP caught my
eye.

Am I to understand then that Mediacom does not provide their customers with
a real IP address?  I know they're supposed to be DHCP and the IP changes
every 3 days or so but 192.168.x.x is a private IP range and that would be a
problem for me.

Or is the modem a built in NATing router?  The modem gets a real IP but NATs
it and sends out a connected IP. If this is the case can the NATing be
turned off on the modem so the real IP is passed through?  Or can you get
just a Modem without a built in NATing router?

Thanks,
Gamble

On 5/4/06, Jerry Heiselman <jweida at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Yes, this is true.  They are using QoS Assurance to deliver higher quality
> phone connections, but I've never heard of it being that big of a problem.
> A single voice line takes about 110Kbs for above average sounding quality.
> My guess would be that you are on a router that is over saturated with
> customers or the line to your house is not clean and needs to be re-worked.
> One way to tell if the line has a high interference rate would be to examine
> the diagnostic pages inside your modem.  Most modems have a builtin
> webserver at 192.168.100.1.  If you go to that page in a web browser, the
> modem will immediately pick it up and direct you to it.
>
> Things to look for are SNR (should be no lower than 25 average),
> microreflections should be no higher than 1000 per day that the modem has
> been online (not all modems show this metric), and the power output should
> be no higher than 46 give or take a couple of points.
>
> If all of these things are good, then it's probably over saturation of the
> market and you can ask if they have any plans on putting in a new router to
> support the growth.
>
> Jerry
>
>
> On 5/3/06, Daniel Juliano <dan at danandlaurajuliano.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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?
> >
> >
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