Problems with Mediacom internet?

**Dave Rauschkolb** · 11-13-2008, 05:53 AM

Anyone having "halting, intermittent" problems with Mediacom internet? Pages loading very slowly for the past 4 weeks.

**AAbsolute** · 11-13-2008, 05:57 AM

Yes. Service completely comes and goes.

**passin thru** · 11-13-2008, 05:58 AM

Yes, us too, in the Sugarwood Beach neighborhood. It's "high-speed" compared to what?

**Andy A** · 11-13-2008, 09:23 AM

It applies here as well on Blue Mt. Beach. It is very slow compared to what it was as recently as a month ago.

**Carol G** · 11-13-2008, 09:58 AM

Yep, same thing on the east end of 30A... everything is just super slow, pages taking forever to load. Thought it was something with my computer...

**SWGB** · 11-13-2008, 11:54 AM

Go to www.speedtest.net. If the download speed is less than 7000 and the upload speed is less than 400 call mediacom. If it's not then it could be the webpage you are accessing.

Use the server they suggest. Ironically it looks like Mediacom is all of a sudden routing us through Kansas City. In addition they appear to be having IP and DNS issues.

**Dave Rauschkolb** · 11-13-2008, 12:28 PM

**Here4Good** · 11-13-2008, 12:41 PM

Pt. Washington:

One thing you might try is changing to OpenDNS:

http://www.opendns.com/

I changed a few months ago, and have had fewer performance problems - still have the outages, tho.....

**lennonsdarlin** · 11-13-2008, 12:43 PM

Santa Rosa Beach 393

**Natural Clean** · 11-13-2008, 12:56 PM

I get this with Mediacom in SRB. I had some problems a month or so back, but it was my router acting up.

**BookMan** · 11-13-2008, 01:24 PM

I dumped Mediacom after eight months of horribly slow and intermittent internet service, not to mention the orange cable that was strung across my lawn for entire time even though I called at least twenty times to have it buried. I now have an Air Card that although is not as fast as a cable connections should be consistently out performs my old Mediacom connection, even streaming video from sights such as HULU.

**NightAngel** · 11-13-2008, 01:31 PM

I live off Bay dr and we have problems constantly with mediacom internet. you will going along just fine and then nothing. I reboot the cable modem and go to my internet connections and click repair and it goes fine again for awhile. I have called them several times and almost everytime they tell me that they are experiencing *issues* in our area and the one time I talked to a person, she said everything looked fine and to just reboot the modem and the router.

**Natural Clean** · 11-13-2008, 03:18 PM

I live in a fairly new subdivision, that may be why my mediacom experience has been decent. (internet only, thier tv offerings are abysmal, I got a satelite) My only problem was when I do call, their hold times are at least 15-20 minutes.

When I used to have COX, I would get through in just a few minutes, and sometimes right away.

Why dont all of you with MC problems just go the DSL route for internet? I almost did, but they require you to pay for a home phone too. I only have cell phones.

**SWGB** · 11-13-2008, 05:35 PM

Originally Posted by Natural Clean

I live in a fairly new subdivision, that may be why my mediacom experience has been decent. (internet only, thier tv offerings are abysmal, I got a satelite) My only problem was when I do call, their hold times are at least 15-20 minutes.

When I used to have COX, I would get through in just a few minutes, and sometimes right away.

Why dont all of you with MC problems just go the DSL route for internet? I almost did, but they require you to pay for a home phone too. I only have cell phones.

Speed is the main issue, basic DSL is much slower than a cable modem. To get near cable modem speeds you have to pay more than cable service is going to cost. Also the DNS issues with DSL are a nightmare if you deal with live video.

**Theolddestin** · 11-13-2008, 08:07 PM

Originally Posted by BookMan

I dumped Mediacom after eight months of horribly slow and intermittent internet service, not to mention the orange cable that was strung across my lawn for entire time even though I called at least twenty times to have it buried. I now have an Air Card that although is not as fast as a cable connections should be consistently out performs my old Mediacom connection, even streaming video from sights such as HULU.

Mediacom is awful! We had to threaten to call the FCC to have their contract pulled before we had any help at all! If enough people complain we can get them out of this area once and for all, or at least have some other choices!

**SWGB** · 11-13-2008, 11:02 PM

Originally Posted by Theolddestin

Mediacom is awful! We had to threaten to call the FCC to have their contract pulled before we had any help at all! If enough people complain we can get them out of this area once and for all, or at least have some other choices!

It's been discussed before. Basically another company needs to apply for to the county. Basically the better option is to try and lure another company to the area.

**Jychf** · 11-13-2008, 11:49 PM

Thompson road.....although I've had problems as well for the past few weeks.

**lennonsdarlin** · 11-14-2008, 11:26 AM

Originally Posted by BookMan

I dumped Mediacom after eight months of horribly slow and intermittent internet service, not to mention the orange cable that was strung across my lawn for entire time even though I called at least twenty times to have it buried. I now have an Air Card that although is not as fast as a cable connections should be consistently out performs my old Mediacom connection, even streaming video from sights such as HULU.

That is so funny...I"ve had service for over 2 years and just got my cable buried last week...so shallow you can still see the orange!!!

**SWGB** · 11-14-2008, 12:22 PM

Originally Posted by Jychf

Thompson road.....although I've had problems as well for the past few weeks.

Wow, mine's never been that high,

do you pay for the extra bandwidth?

**Miss Kitty** · 11-14-2008, 02:20 PM

Did anyone fall asleep?

**Jychf** · 11-14-2008, 03:26 PM

Originally Posted by sowalgayboi

Wow, mine's never been that high,

do you pay for the extra bandwidth?

Not that I know of...but then again who can make heads or tails of a mediacom bill?!!

**30A Skunkape** · 11-14-2008, 06:59 PM

Downtown Grayton, with some aluminum foil

**DuneLaker** · 11-16-2008, 09:52 AM

Wonder if Cox would be better to serve entire county. Now, SoWal is split with Cox around west end and Sandestin and Mediacom on east end. I'd like to get P-Cola station. This would help business advertising budgets, too. Now, to reach SoWal, you have to pay for two different cable service areas.

**highwayjunkie** · 11-16-2008, 09:43 PM

MediaCom is terrible here...I have called so many times that I have given up. Sorry dude. The person who starts a new highspeed internet service here is gonna be rich

Originally Posted by Dave Rauschkolb

**Beach Bimmer** · 11-17-2008, 07:21 AM

In Blue Mountain Beach on Big Redfish Lake...

...and there are bits and pieces of cable showing above ground throughout the neighborhood...even pieces that have been mowed over and showing wire strands...