Anyone having "halting, intermittent" problems with Mediacom internet? Pages loading very slowly for the past 4 weeks.
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25Banned
Yes. Service completely comes and goes.
Beach Fanatic
Yes, us too, in the Sugarwood Beach neighborhood. It's "high-speed" compared to what?
Beach Fanatic
It applies here as well on Blue Mt. Beach. It is very slow compared to what it was as recently as a month ago.
Beach Fanatic
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
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.

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.

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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.....

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.....
Beach Lover
Santa Rosa Beach 393Beach Lover
Beach Lover
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.
Beach Fanatic
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. 

Beach Lover
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.
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
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.
Beach Crab
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
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.
Beach Lover
Beach Lover
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
Meow
Beach Lover
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?!!

Skunky
Beach Fanatic
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.
Beach Lover
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