Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] mediacom

["George B. Robb III" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Mike Miller wrote:

> On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Jonathan King wrote:
>
> > On 11/10/05, Shawn Parker <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> >
> > > i'm not sure about standard, but i use speakeasy's speed test.
> > >
> > > http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/
> >
> >
> > Hmm...all I know is that, yes, we've had sporadic periods of intense 
> > slowness on Mediacom recently.  Very annoying, but in our case, it is 
> > sporadic.
>
>
>
> What do people expect to get from "cable modem" broadband providers?  
> I have Time-Warner and this is what I see from speakeasy.net:
>
> Download Speed: 4798 kbps (599.8 KB/sec transfer rate)
>   Upload Speed:  359 kbps (44.9 KB/sec transfer rate)
>
> Maybe that's extraordinary, but I think today many providers are 
> increasing their customers' download bandwidth.  I know that ours was 
> increased recently, because I was told it would be increased, but it 
> was already so fast that I could hardly notice a change.
>
> Mike
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If it helps I am on medicom here in Columbia and I was having drop outs, 
crappy slow speeds, and lag cross the board...  It wasn't the outside 
wiring due to the fact that it is only 20' to the hard line on the pole 
so I turned my search inside...  First thing I did was cut the cable at 
the nearest input point spliced a new cable on directly to the cable 
modem. Now I am seeing results that are amazing (through a linksys 
router at that)...

Hacking tips...  If you have a Motorola cable modem go to this site and 
check your stats...
http://192.168.100.1  this should be the diagnostic page from your cable 
modem itself...  Do a before / after and see the results...  Sometimes 
even moving to a spot in front of a splitter will even make a huge 
difference.

Here is a site that gives standard power / signal levels:
http://www.speedguide.net/faq_in_q.php?category=92&qid=78

Before the cable change out my upstream power was sitting at a pathetic 
12dbmV...  Now I am sitting at 46dbmV...  Also don't skimp on 
splitters...  They are a HUGE source of signal loss...

More links:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/robin.d.h.walker/cmtips/signal.html

The DocsDiag for reading the DOCSIS diagnostics works perfect under 
Linux you will need the community name / password though :(

Happy hacking,

George

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