US Cable Support > Mediacom > [KY] Good speeds bad game/video playback

reply to TMar

Re: [KY] Good speeds bad game/video playback

Are you streaming the videos in the same quality on both devices/connections?

One device, my computer (teathering done by wifi and USB an equal number of times). With auto HD for Chrome so 720p every time (it automatically enters large video mode and sets it to the desired (in my case 720) resolution.

Test done by doing wired connection for mediacom then disabling ethernet, turning on tethering and refreshing the page. Then disabling tethering and enabling the wired connection. Rise and repeated 5 times for each connection done on several videos. So ~35 tries on each connection. Speeds were fairly consistent for both.

The slowdowns happen almost daily from ~6pm-~10pm. At these times Steam, torrents of Ubuntu and speedtest can max the connection.

AT&T tethering speed

reply to TMar
Um... Im pretty sure you can call in and get bumped up to 15Mbps for free WITHOUT going to the new caps. I know of several people in my area that did that, before I got the 30Mbps which doesn't bother me as it is just me on one computer and my highest has been 230GB or so. More if i'm uploading lots of pictures and audio files for the church that I work at.

If you are streaming videos from Youtube I do know that depending on site traffic and the channel you are watching may have some lag. I experience that and so do others on other ISPs, especially on high qualities.

Yeah that's why I tested on numerous channels. Swamping resolutions netted the similar speeds. I know sometimes I see huge download speed differences just swapping resolutions. Not in this case. In the end when this happens I can't even watch a 360p video on my cable connection without constant buffering and yet cellular connection does fine during these times. 'Site problems' shouldn't be connection specific.

They should not be connection specific. Is your cellular connection using the mobile site by chance?

Like I said tethering to my computer. The same page just refreshed once I switch connections. No switching to the mobile site.

Do you notice issues with any other sites? Do you stream with other sites as well?