[Cialug] Mediacom Business Cable

[Nathan C. Smith]

I was wondering if the technology was somehow similar to DSL or what caused the asymmetrical requirement.  Is this true of all Cable-Internet technologies?  The price looks good until you uncover the bandwidth issue.

We use InternetSolver metro Ethernet.

-Nate

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From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf Of Jeffrey Ollie
Sent: Friday, December 10, 2010 11:33 AM
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [Cialug] Mediacom Business Cable

On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Nathan C. Smith <nathan.smith at ipmvs.com> wrote:
> Does anyone know why Mediacom's business internet offering is asymmetrical?
>
> Top offering is 50 down/5 up.  That seems odd.

It's the nature of cable internet...  There's lots of downstream bandwidth but not very much upstream bandwidth.  Which corresponds with how most residential and small business customers use the internet anyway.  If you really need a lot of upstream bandwidth you'll probably need to check into a Metro Ethernet circuit.  There are several providers locally that offer such services :).

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Jeff Ollie
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