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it was a dns issue with mediacom.. plain and simple..
I'm curious how this looks like a DNS issue to you.
C:\Users\iconz>tracert www.mediacomcable.com
Tracing route to www.mediacomcable.com [74.84.103.140]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 2 ms 2 ms 1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 10 ms 12 ms 18 ms 10.132.42.1
3 * * * Request timed out.
4 * * * Request timed out.
5 * * * Request timed out.
6 * * * Request timed out.
7 * * * Request timed out.
8 * * 10.132.42.1 reports: Destination net unreachable.
See that in bold up there? In that whole traceroute, all DNS does is convert www.mediacomcable.com to 74.84.103.140, which was successful, otherwise you'd have gotten 'www.mediacomcable.com... unknown host'. The fact that you couldn't get there had nothing to do with the DNS. It was a network issue.