[Cialug] Mediacom to boost speeds

[David Champion]

You can put just about any of the Century Link modems in Bridging mode,
it's under Advanced, WAN settings. Just make sure you know your PPP
credentials to put on your router.

As someone that supports modems for an ISP (Alliance Connect formerly
Internet Solver), I don't like Bridging mode, because all we can see is
that the modem is trained, we lose the ability to diagnose issues on the
modem end without going on site.

-dc


On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 12:44 PM, Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org> wrote:

> On Apr 30, 2014, at 11:22 AM, Scott Yates <Scott at yatesframe.com> wrote:
>
> > 2)  I still don't think they are over subscribed.  I DO however think
> they
> > need to upgrade the equipment that handles neighborhood level
> connections.
> > The pipe they provide me at least is consistently screaming.
>
>
> For example, for well over a year I've been paying for 12mbps and I
> regularly get 20+mbps. Sometimes my speed fluctuates but I never get below
> 12mbps. My upload speed is usually about twice what I pay for as well. (I
> posted specifics to Twitter some time ago, but it's impossible to find
> anything on Twitter more than 24 hours old)
>
> Regarding underpowered equipment, when I used to help test Ubuntu's
> torrent files I was able to overheat my Century Link modem and cheapo
> self-bought router. After a while, one of them, usually the router, would
> just shut off until it cooled down. If you care about performance or are a
> heavy user, definitely don't opt for the cheapest equipment. (it was the
> number of connections causing the problem, not the bandwidth)
>
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