[Cialug] Mediacom DesMoines

Wed Feb 15 07:29:26 CST 2017

You don't want to run anything "production" on  a mediacom business
account.. at least not in my area. The "business service" is not what
I would consider business class.  In my experience, If are you running
a business critical infrastructure, Mediacom is a  poor choice.

If you can tolerate lots of intermittent down time, random heavy
packet loss and the inability to fix a documented intermittent line
noise problem for the last two years,  If you can tolerate your
service being randomly disconnected 4 times in one year because your
business is in a residential area and the techs that audit service in
the area don't have access to a "business customer" database so they
disconnect you because your address isn't in the "residential service
database".  If you can tolerate random outrages because someone
refuses to performance maintenance on a UPS device.  If you can
tolerate random maintenance and upgrades that regularly break things,
(and they refuse to notify you in advance) then maybe Mediacom is for
you.

Maybe I'm biased. Maybe its just my particular experience. Maybe its
because my backside still hurts. When someone says: Mediacom Business
or Mediacom Enterprise Business.  I just cringe.

:) Dave

On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 7:11 AM, Kyle Hamilton <khamil8686 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I second this. I don't have production stuff on my servers. It does say in
> their TOS that you are not supposed to run servers. I just do for backup and
> nerdy fun. DSL just doesn't cut it speed wise unfortunately. So yes, nothing
> production unless you have a business account. They don't seem to block any
> ports, however.
>
>
>
> On 02/15/2017 06:55 AM, Matt wrote:
>>
>> Be very careful using dyndns with a cable provider. When Charter cable
>> first put their AMAZING(!!!) 500kbps cable internet service in for a large
>> chunk of their service area (in upper-east Tennessee), I signed up.  I got a
>> dyndns subdomain (because they were the only game in town if you wanted
>> dynamic DNS service at that time) and I immediately started learning
>> everything I could about running a Linux web server and a personal IRC
>> server. Everything was fine for about 2 months, when I came home to no
>> internet access.
>>
>> Turns out that hidden in their wall of text AUP/ToS there are specific
>> rules prohibiting you from running ANY type of server, and they noted in
>> their cancellation letter that I had pointed two domain names (subdomains,
>> really) at their IP addresses.  That life lesson turned me into a diehard
>> DSL user (at least, as soon as DSL became available... several years later).
>> As a general rule, DSL services will let you do pretty much anything you
>> want (except, obviously, for illegal ventures) with whatever bandwidth you
>> can squeeze out of those two copper wires.  Cable companies get touchy when
>> you use too much of the shared neighborhood bandwidth, or as in my case open
>> a couple of ports that they are afraid MIGHT generate incoming traffic.
>>
>> If you just want to have an ssh port available to you while you're away
>> from home, you'll (probably... hopefully?) be OK.  If you open port 80 or
>> any other ports associated with web, email, IRC, ftp, or any number of other
>> bandwidth-sensitive services, your cable company may just shut you off.  If
>> they don't do that, they very likely will pitch you a nasty email about how
>> you need to upgrade to their business-class offering if you wish to point
>> domain names at THEIR (Angry CAPS!!) IPs.  I put up with DSL for the better
>> part of the last decade because the cable internet ToS hasn't changed one
>> bit (except that they added that you can't use your full bandwidth
>> "excessively" -- a concept that means whatever they wish it to mean at the
>> time they decide to apply it) since they first started offering cable
>> internet.  Luckily, where I live now I can get 75/20Mbps fiber-to-home
>> internet, which basically combines the speed and low latency of cable
>> internet with the ToS of DSL.
>>
>> Sorry if this came off as a rant.  I just wanted to drive home the fact
>> that cable companies can be very strict about their terms of service, even
>> when they aren't getting their bandwidth used.
>>
>> -- Matt (N0BOX)
>>
>> On 2/13/2017 5:39 PM, Adam Hill wrote:
>>>>
>>>> after you grab a DHCP address for your firewall box or router, set it as
>>>
>>> static
>>>
>>> In my experience your DHCP addressed IP will stick for equally as long as
>>> this setup unless you somehow wipe out your DHCP lease, change hardware,
>>> or
>>> something along those lines.
>>>
>>> Hardware changes or periods of being offline (and someone else stealing
>>> your previously leased IP) are the things that'll change your IP AFAIK.
>>>
>>> RE Dyndns: Pretty sure CloudFlare does free DNS with dyndns support?
>>> Haven't used it since I'm using namecheap's dyndns; lots of domain
>>> registrars provide dyndns for free now.  Just write up a ddclient.conf
>>> and
>>> leave it running.
>>>
>>> On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 4:17 PM L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Mon, 13 Feb 2017, chris rheinherren wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Mediacom only gives static's to Commercial customers. If it's a
>>>>
>>>> residential
>>>>>
>>>>> account then they wont be able to have a static IP.
>>>>>
>>>> Same deal with Charter here in St. Louis. I did find out something tha
>>>> might be beneficial - after you grab a DHCP address for your firewall
>>>> box
>>>> or router, set it as static - been using the same IP for many years.
>>>>
>>>> Also figured out the routing standard for the Charter network - if your
>>>> IP
>>>> is n.n.n.n, the gateway is usually n.n.n.1.
>>>>
>>>> IOW, the Charter network doesn't care that you have a DIFFERENT DHCP
>>>> address after reboot/reset, only that you are using a valid one. Could
>>>> be
>>>> the same for Mediacom?
>>>>
>>>>          Lee
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