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Re: Mediacom working to restore cable outages caused by storm

Sat, 22 Dec 2012 23:12:13 EDT

Boss302_1970 posted : my service was fine thru the storm but at 10 pm saturday night it has went down and of course is still down. this happens way too often

Re: Mediacom working to restore cable outages caused by storm

Sat, 22 Dec 2012 14:50:41 EDT

wth posted : Most Mediacom customers should have service restored; crews working to fix downed lines

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Re: Mediacom working to restore cable outages caused by storm

Sat, 22 Dec 2012 12:13:59 EDT

shocktrooper posted : I am down for 4 days now. Cant get a hold of support either. des moines, ia 50310

Re: Mediacom working to restore cable outages caused by storm

Sat, 22 Dec 2012 08:12:30 EDT

Lazy Senior posted :

said by Anonymous:

When there is ice on the roof nobody will climb up. I wouldn't do it.

Agreed, which is why my Dish is always mounted on a pole in the yard or easily accessible from a 6ft step ladder. My experience from both S.IL (little snow but ice) and N.IL (much snow) locations have found that once the sun comes out the snow or ice is quickly melted.

My 17 year experience with both satellite companies and Comcast and Mediacom in 2 different locations has proved to me that uptime reliability and service with the sat companies is much much better than cable companies.

Re: Mediacom working to restore cable outages caused by storm

Fri, 21 Dec 2012 23:51:07 EDT

Anonymous posted : When there is ice on the roof nobody will climb up. I wouldn't do it.
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Re: Mediacom working to restore cable outages caused by storm

Fri, 21 Dec 2012 22:49:27 EDT

TJFriday posted : Still down on the near South side of Des Moines. :-(

Re: Mediacom working to restore cable outages caused by storm

Fri, 21 Dec 2012 21:35:15 EDT

danawhitaker posted :

said by Lazy Senior:

said by Anonymous:

That sounds like a urban myth from a Mediacom employee. As one who has had Mediacom TV, Directv and Dishnetwork over a 17 year period, I can assure you that the satellite companies have more TV channels at a lower cost, better HD picture and reliability that Mediacom and cable companies can only dream of.

That explains why every time there's lightning at my cousin's house the satellite immediately loses signal (and I experienced this myself numerous times while babysitting their kids, this isn't just second hand), whereas during every thunderstorm in recent memory at my own house (with cable) I've had almost 100% uptime. They've contacted DirecTV numerous times and they've never been able to fix the issue. My neighbors have had similar issues with both satellite companies, though not as consistently.

Re: Mediacom working to restore cable outages caused by storm

Fri, 21 Dec 2012 21:13:54 EDT

Lazy Senior posted :

said by Anonymous:

Re: Mediacom working to restore cable outages caused by storm

Fri, 21 Dec 2012 19:59:16 EDT

danawhitaker posted :

said by garn91:

said by danawhitaker:

I have to laugh, because earlier tonight on the radio I heard a Mediacom ad sort of mocking satellite customers who were experiencing outages because of heavy snow.

Nothing that a broom wouldn't take care of. Of course, one would needed to have power yesterday to determine if I had a satellite signal or not :(

Luckily my area escaped power problems. I had one flicker. I'd never be able to reach our satellite with a broom, if I had satellite. They have to mount them fairly high on the roofs around here.

I saw the same commercial I referenced earlier, on TV this time. I'm not sure I'd be willing to air that after the outages yesterday ;)

Re: Mediacom working to restore cable outages caused by storm

Fri, 21 Dec 2012 19:04:02 EDT

Anonymous posted :

said by garn91:

said by danawhitaker:

I have to laugh, because earlier tonight on the radio I heard a Mediacom ad sort of mocking satellite customers who were experiencing outages because of heavy snow.

Nothing that a broom wouldn't take care of. Of course, one would needed to have power yesterday to determine if I had a satellite signal or not :(

That is if you can reach it. Anyway the worst thing I heard about DirecTV was some dude had their service, the dish was on the roof and it got messed up by a storm (shit happens). He called them and they told him he would need to wait till spring! The guy terminated his service and they dinged his credit for not paying ETF. Good thing he was a lawyer. He is now pretty much a Mediacom salesman any new neighbor that moves in he tries to talk out of getting DirecTV.
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Re: Mediacom working to restore cable outages caused by storm

Fri, 21 Dec 2012 18:56:22 EDT

garn91 posted :

said by danawhitaker:

I have to laugh, because earlier tonight on the radio I heard a Mediacom ad sort of mocking satellite customers who were experiencing outages because of heavy snow.

Nothing that a broom wouldn't take care of. Of course, one would needed to have power yesterday to determine if I had a satellite signal or not :(

Re: Mediacom working to restore cable outages caused by storm

Fri, 21 Dec 2012 17:08:02 EDT

Bierboy posted :

said by streatorguy :

northern illinois had no issues last night

Bullcrap....we had an Internet outage from yesterday until 10:30 this morning...

Re: Mediacom working to restore cable outages caused by storm

Fri, 21 Dec 2012 13:32:39 EDT

GLIMMER posted : it is what it is. It could have been a power outage at the headend 15 miles away. Just checked amerens restoration trends and in fact mahomet did lose power last night. I just wish they could tell you that when you call in. Its bad enough to have to use Google Voice to call in since they block local calls when there is an outage. My GV number is an Indiana number.

Re: Mediacom working to restore cable outages caused by storm

Fri, 21 Dec 2012 11:18:44 EDT

danawhitaker posted : To be fair, I've heard of tech support telling people that and then the person's issues will persist for a day or two and they'll come on here and Chad will say he sees no issues in the area. I don't condone them saying the outage is all of Illinois when it's not, but I imagine they were getting a ton of calls from people in various areas affected by this storm system and it might have just been easier to say that.

One thing I've run into around here is that if power is lost in a certain area nearby, I'm definitely without all service. Perhaps there was a power issue in/around your area that was the root cause of the problem? As of this morning, we still had people around here without power, some for almost 24 hours now. Schools were canceled for the second day in a row. This isn't just some piddly little snowstorm.
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Re: Mediacom working to restore cable outages caused by storm

Fri, 21 Dec 2012 10:34:28 EDT

anon posted : northern illinois had no issues last night

Re: Mediacom working to restore cable outages caused by storm

Fri, 21 Dec 2012 10:29:07 EDT

GLIMMER posted : well I was back up at 6:40am

went out at 8:42pm

I was told by tech support that is was out all over the state.. That was last night when I called in.

Re: Mediacom working to restore cable outages caused by storm

Fri, 21 Dec 2012 07:53:08 EDT

Lazy Senior posted :

said by GLIMMER:

The whole state of il is out right now.

Not True. S. IL is working fine.....

Re: Mediacom working to restore cable outages caused by storm

Fri, 21 Dec 2012 01:31:46 EDT

GLIMMER posted : The whole state of il is out right now. Mediacom amazes me one problem can knock out so many people. Redundant mediacom is not. No one part should kill the whole.

Re: Mediacom working to restore cable outages caused by storm

Fri, 21 Dec 2012 01:15:59 EDT

danawhitaker posted : I have to laugh, because earlier tonight on the radio I heard a Mediacom ad sort of mocking satellite customers who were experiencing outages because of heavy snow.
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Mediacom working to restore cable outages caused by storm

Thu, 20 Dec 2012 15:15:41 EDT

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