[Cialug] Mediacom DesMoines

[Paul Gray]

On 02/15/2017 07:29, Dave Hala wrote:
> 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.
>

You omitted the abysmal latency aspect found on their business service.

Abysmal.

-Paul