Mediacom Internet Speeds

**pulse** · 12-13-2007, 04:43 PM

Originally Posted by travman23

Ok, here is the myth behind cable internet vs DSL. Cable internet bandwidth is shared between everyone on a node. The only way you'll ever get the max bandwidth is if you are the only one on the node. I have no idea how many connections Mediacome has per node but lets say you and 50 neighbors are on the same one. If everyone that has cable internet is online at the same time and let's say a handful of them are playing online games, several others are downloading music or whatever, that all is taking up bandwidth and you have to share that with whoever else is using it.

With DSL it's dedicated bandwidth. You and only you get the full bandwidth that comes into your home. Doesn't matter how many others in your neighborhood have DSL, each one is a dedicated bandwidth line. Those who have DSL will probably get near the full advertised bandwidth, possibly even better. Personally, I did not notice a difference when I went from then 6MB Mediacom to 1.5MB Qwest and in fact the upload is even better with Qwest as Mediacom caps it kind of low I think.

Yeah cable is shared, but because its such a fat pipe you'll still most likely always get better download speed than DSL, assuming the cable is a few MB and DSL is 1-something. Upload depends on what speed they throttle you with. None of this makes any difference if all you are doing is reading CF, but if you're playing games or downloading more bandwidth even if its shared will make it a lot quicker.

**AirWalke** · 12-13-2007, 04:46 PM

9.8mbps download
11.8mbps upload

Using the connection in my dorm. How the hell is the upload faster than the download?

**whirlybirds** · 12-13-2007, 04:50 PM

**HandSanitizer** · 12-13-2007, 04:50 PM

7.9 Down
510k up
Mediacom

**ajk4st8** · 12-13-2007, 04:56 PM

Ive had cable interent for a couple years.. its fast.. only down one or 2 times.

**kcclones** · 12-13-2007, 05:01 PM

5138 download
612 upload

AT&T

**Wesley** · 12-13-2007, 05:33 PM

17461 kb/s down
556 kb/s up
Cox in Omaha

I moved to a new subdivision with half the lots unfilled. The system has extra cpacity.

Quest DSL is slower the futrther you are away from one of their centers.
Cox is affected if your system is over utilized like on a Saturday night.

Wait until everyone is downloading video movies from Netflix, etc.

**cyfanatic** · 12-13-2007, 05:36 PM

Originally Posted by ISUFan22

Had Mediacom cable and now on Qwest DSL. I do notice the difference, especially when viewing pages with a lot of images.

I think part of it could be my PC performance - I have a rather robust laptop but some things on it are dragging me down. Gotta get rid of AVG and try a different AV and spyware software.

I do miss the cable internet, just not the price, downtimes and horrible service.

Try Avast Free! Works great...but that would be a different thread...

**Wx4Cy** · 12-13-2007, 05:37 PM

Qwest DSL baby.

5900 down
740 up

Haven't had a single service interruption in nearly a year.

**Seth** · 12-13-2007, 05:58 PM

4.8mbps DL (paying for 5 mbps service, so not bad)
480 kbps UL (500K, again, not bad)
Charter Communications in St. Louis

Terrible customer service however, and we've had numerous outages over the past 2 years. The last one was actually this morning for about 4 hours. Nothing like waking up and trying to check CF, finding out your internet is down, calling and talking to a machine, only to find out they have no idea how long the outage will be. Oh, and they just raised my rates. GRRRR...

**alarson** · 12-13-2007, 06:15 PM

during the day, mediacom is fine in ames.

at night though.. between 8pm-2am, has a tendency to take a dive. ive tested it at under 200kbps a couple times.

**alarson** · 12-13-2007, 06:20 PM

Originally Posted by travman23

The only way you'll ever get the max bandwidth is if you are the only one on the node.

thats perpetuating another myth though.

Your node has a pipe to it that is much larger than your max speed. Your modem has a config file pushed to it from mediacom that limits its max throughput to a certain rate, be it 8mbit, 10mbit (vip) or 15mbit (max). This is why even if nobody is using the node, you will not get greater than your plan's speed. I dont know what the actual size of the pipe per node is, but lets say its 200mbps. Thatd be 25 people online and maxing out their bandwidth, which people rarely do anyways, and is difficult to truly do unless you're downloading off of newsgroup servers.

**cytech** · 12-13-2007, 06:29 PM

You should for the most part except some evenings be getting pretty close to the advertised speed from mediacom. You are sharing a node with others so it can change. But if it is way off call up mediacom they can check the node usage and see if there is a problem. If you have your line split through more then one splitter. Or have old cables or poorly terminated cables these can all lead to signal lose.

**CTAClone** · 12-13-2007, 06:32 PM

Download Speed: 1053 kbps (131.6 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 1051 kbps (131.4 KB/sec transfer rate)

Upload is good, don't like the download. I'm going to call my ISP because we are suppose to be getting 10mb here at work.