Mediacom: 10Mbps

My Config file on my modem shows 10/1.. this has been for years. Glad mediacom customers are getting what they pay for. Optonline is THE best high speed in the country hands down!

hahah thanks for the laugh on that one..

Verizon FIOS is the best highspeed in the country actually. Specially for the price.

Does it matter "WHO" is the best? As long as you are able to get some form of stable and reliable high speed Internet, then you should be grateful.

Well, actually it does matter since the average idiot will look at statements like "opt online is the best, etc." and make buying decisions based on that. Opt Online used to be good, but now it's crap. They will cap your upload to 1/10th of normal if you upload what they consider "excessively," which roughly translates into anything over a few hours at a time. They also throttle your download to 1/3 speed after only 10 minutes of solid downloading, AND they do all of this secretly without notifying the customer. Their overall speeds have dropped, which is exactly the opposite of what they advertise. My daily average download speed was around 5mbits, and sometimes it was 3 or 4. That was dropped from around 7 when I first got the service and I never had the download speed that some got in the area of 9. I had my upload capped twice, which is a real pain in the ass to have removed as it involves dealing with their "super secret security (read a**holes) dept", and phone calls and call backs. That makes Opt Online a piece of crap and witless statements from noobs about how they are the best need to be stamped out. At the moment, Verizon FIOS is probably the best service out there, although it's not widely available yet. I should know, I had Opt Online for years (since it existed) and I recently switched to FIOS. What a night and day difference from feeling utterly restricted and unable to use my internet the way I wanted to without fear of being capped or throttled with opt online, and now I have three times the speed (15/2) for the same price ($50/mo), it's dedicated, and all with very little fear of having problems. Any other questions?

That's funny, My brother has FIOS for over a month and he's had nothing but problems. And alot of the time the ping/latency was overly high. So no one CO is the best.

mr anonymous, I'll bet your brother's pc is either swimming in malware or seriously misconfigured (or both) before I believe that it has anything to do with FIOS. Over in the fiber forum, there have been very few reported issues, and the ones that are posted there are usually not FIOS related. You should have your brother post there and maybe we could assist him.

Agreed your brother's pc is either underspec, infected with virii and malware/spyware or all of the above.

Or Mr anonymous you're just a cable fanboi trying to stir the pot. Fiber to the premise will always trump VDSL and Cable. Especially cable since telco's have the ability to get more bandwidth on a better pricepoint than the cable companies. Why do you see such a big battle over MCI and teh scramble that SBC made to acquire AT&T. Both companies may have a large business base but both also had signifigant infrastructure. Something the cable companies have to build or lease both of which will lead to higher prices.

COMCAST CABLE COMM. SPRINT-D01123 (NET-208-17-32-0-1)
208.17.32.0 - 208.17.35.255

Suppose that answers THAT question...

And how does that disprove that his brother has FIOS?

It doesn't...I just found it amusing somebody bashing FIOS was on cable.

OOL turning to crap was almost guaranteed as a result of their big advertising push. Now it's Welcome to the OOL Congested Superhighway.

what makes you think that VZ WILL NOT do the same as well?
They will eventually do the same AND they will raise your rates to probably 20 % more than what you paid last when you switched. It is called switch and bait.

You think that all this money VZ is putting down = same low price? They are counting on more people switching sides and if it does not happen, people like you will be paying for it by increased rates.

"there is a sucker born every day"

I guess it does to some people.

I mean, after all, MY dad could beat up YOUR dad, and if I came to school with that ratty coat on, ALL the other kiddies would make fun of me.

why don't we stay on topic?

We are talking Cable not Fios/ Fiber here.

Thanks

bsr5,

I really thought this mentality went away in the 5th grade... well, at least for most of us.

I agree with the other poster.. as long as you are happy with your service, get a good speed, etc.. then you have the best services.

And by the way, please let me put this notion that FIOS is the golden isp of all.. A little company in the west called Surewest, formerly Roseville Telephone Company, has been doing 10/10 for years now - fiber to the home and at a rate a little better than FIOS.

So, to throw at you - and the rest of you FIOS worshippers, I hate to burst your bubble; no, actually I don't hate doing it.. I LOVE doing it!

I think this whole mentality of the entitlement attitude is horrid. Just a few years ago we were all creeping along with 56k modems and for the most part, ok with it. This broadband technology comes out giving speeds like 256 and 768 and people were thirlled. Just a few years later, a bunch of spoiled brats want more for less. Give these companies a chance to get it rolled out!

I paid over $90 for my up to 1.5 / 128 with Pacific Bell when it came out. I was the launch customer in Sacramento and was happy to pay the price. I would still pay $90.00 a month for my 6 meg / 768 cable modem service becuase I get a LOT of use out of it. I think the braodband companies, WITH ALL THEIR BUMPS IN THE ROAD, are doing an excellent job connecting us to the world. I only appologize - to the BB companies on your behalf - that all they get in return from the people that bitch continuously that they have only this in return!

Grow up guys, if you have a 1.5 connection to your home, that's actually good for most everything we do right. So what if it takes 2 minutes to downlaod that mp3! You can't listen to it that fast anyway!

I think it's great that Medicom is rolling out the 10meg. I just can't wait for the day when those getting the speeds will bitch that they speed tests only show them at 9.5. Just keep bitching, reasearch shows that bitch their way through life die faster too!

uhm FIOS isnt a company...... and if i recall correct then surewest is also using fiber and FIOS is also fiber...... you should look up what FIOS stands for..... you might learn something

Uh, DUH! I know FIOS is a product of Verizon.. try re-reading my post and see that I am referring to the product.

Your attempt to be cute has only made you look a fool...

I was actually an engieneer on the Surewest deployment team and am also a certified fiber splice technician. I am probably more verse in the technology that you, thank you.

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My Config file on my modem shows 10/1.. this has been for years. Glad mediacom customers are getting what they pay for. Optonline is THE best high speed in the country hands down!

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It WAS!! Up until about a month ago I was consistantly getting 10/1 speeds from OOL, now I'm getting 7300/900, with no explanation from them (who say my contract is for 1000/256 so I should be 'happy with anything over that').

STFU newb : )

Seriously, Mediacom went through some serious growing pains after they took over for @home. They cut us from 10mbps down/1.5mbps upstream... to 1.5 down & 128kbps up! That would have made me switch to DSL right there, however I had no choice in my neck of the woods. To make a long story short, they've been edging their bandwidth back up to where it should be slowly but surely, and I've had excellent customer service all the while... English speaking people & short hold-times. Of course this is in my area... But I feel they're doing their best to be competative here & am anxious to see what that brings to the market. Oh, and 10/1? S T F _ --- U

....and welcome to last year!

now I don't have to choose between 3000/256 and interleaved 7000/896

While I'll always welcome a speed increase, I'm a little worried about what kind of price Mediacom is going to charge for the 10/1 tier. Mediacom has never been very cost competitive, especially in areas where they have no competition. Guess we'll just have to wait and see....

It'll still it will still be competitive, as they want customers to order that (more $$), but still keep it at a lower price than what they'd want to offer it.

Those speeds will be great and i do hope its at a reasonable price. id pay $100 a month for it, and lets hope residential customers can get the 10,000/1,000 speeds.

For the people out there who bitch, no matter what, here you go.

"if they can do this to Mars why not my house?"

Mars Telecommunication Orbiter - Interplanetary Broadband

The Mars Telecommunications Orbiter is expected to transmit data at a rate of 1 megabit per second when Mars is furthest from Earth and reception takes place during the day. When Mars is at its closest approach and reception takes place at night, data transmission rates of 10-30 megabits per second are expected. In contrast, NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter transmits data at about 128,000 bits per second, about twice as fast as a dial-up connection.

I know this will not make you gamers out there happy because there will be complaints about latency.

GREAT POST!

What I really think here is that if all people are using the internet for is gaming, and for as long as they play their games, maybe we should be looking at their mental capacity. People can use the internet for what ever they want, but I could care less if the internet is "up" for you to play your little games.

I actually could care less about the internet being strong for game players. I HAD a roomate that used to play ever-crack a.k.a never-quest ... he played it so much, he lost his job because he'd rather stay home than go to work. When he did loose his job, I helped him out until I learned he was not looking for a job, rather playing games all day and all night. He lived, talked, and breathed online gaming. Well, I helped him out again.. OUT of the house!

I could really care less about games. I belive, and yes, *I* belive that if you look at the statistics, those who's life/business depends on the internet will gladly pay more for a good internet connection AND NOT BITCH ABOUT IT, than would a gamer who wants it all and bitches about paying ANYTING for it.

Who do you think will be listened to first... Happy gaming!

i could care less about morons who like to use the internet for something other than gaming......... yadda yadda yadda

See you are demonstrating just what I am getting at. Gaming is cool but it sure would be nice to hear something besides bitching. They way you complain you would think you are not having much fun.

haha, your BITCHING.

Your friend lost his job because he played games, please. I play games work and go to school, and I am a lasy person to start. Your friend lost his job because he has ISSUES, there is medication for that, its really gooooood.

Oh yeah OOL is best.. not getting but 35% of your be half the time drop outs and high pings.. yeah they rock hardcore

i dont have complaints now about latency so i wont when they upgrade.

i think you guys struck a nerve with, "keeping it real" lol anyway..isnt Mediacom only around the NYC area? or just the east coast? if so i cant really see other companies aka, comcast upgrading there speeds...O..wait they cant even provide their current 6/768 speeds...STUPID ME!

i would say surewest is one of the 'best' providers...i dont have it, but ive had friends that had/have it..they pulled around 1500-2000KB/s up and down on the 10/10 service..goodjob surewest =) i wish i could get it, i would have it in a heartbeat. too bad they were capped at 40gigs/month =( all the mIRC trans made that cap gone in no time

ok about the speeds for the gold tier on comcast (6/768) its NOT on my end and it cant be a overload issiue as i live in a small town and if you still think its on my end read here »Official gold tier speed problems thread and here on the COMCAST OWN website »forums.comcast.net/threa ··· start=15

I live in a medium sized town in central Iowa.. and Mediacom's 3/256 never gave me above 2/190. During the day it would drop to well below 56k. I wouldn't go ack to cable now, I've been spoiled by not having to share my bandwidth with every teenage P2P junkie in the neighborhood. 7Mb/1Mb for 60 bucks is awesome. I'm glad you cable guys get your speeds, it's just that I don;t believe anyone3 will actually SEE them. Let's hope I'm wrong.