said by n0aaa:I am getting nominal 20 Mbps, actual 28.5 Mbps at the wall. Wifi 10-15 Mbps when it works. I have a Diamond 300 Mbps repeater in the kitchen. I am familiar with issues when MS gets confused because the modem and the repeater have the same ID, but I am sitting here unable to even watch short videos on YouTube because it is so intermittent. I can do text-based things, but this is starting to be a lot like dial-up (which I did for years). I switched from Century Link because of low and intermittent DSL speeds. It may be a function of being in the boonies, but this is getting ridiculous. I would not recommend Mediacom broadband at this time to anyone who wants to do anything other than reading the news. -Jan (Mt. Vernon, near Cedar Rapids)
jan if you connect your PC/LAptop with Ethernet directly to your modem and you get nearly all of the 50Mbps package but when you jump to wifi you don't then the problem is 100% you.
its not up to Mediacom to fix something like that.
but if you Ethernet to the modem and see the same issue you described above.. well that's a different story.
people haven't the slightest clue what wifi really is, and worse yet you are using a repeater.
listen I am a wireless engineer and salesman, and I would love to take a trip to your house and explain to you what to do and not to do with wireless and check to see where the issue is coming from.
1) a repeater will cost you 30-50% of your bandwidth.. period, I don't care who makes it and I sell some several thousand dollar AP's which suffer from that issue. its the nature of wifi
2) if you are on 802.11G, meaning 2.4ghz (NOT mimo or 802.11N then you are screwed right from the start.) the best A N Y 802.11G wifi radio is going to get is MAYBE 20Mbps... MAYBE.. mostly is 14-16Mbps)
so this more falls inline with your statement of poor speeds.
either way I am speaking about your situation when I don't know he full story.
I would love to help out.
- Paul