[DM-MUG] iChat AV failures on Mediacom?

[Matthew Wheeler]

Ha! Cable may be fast on the download, but it's positively pokey on the 
upload. If you're initiating a 4-way (don't forget to count yourself), 
Apple says you need 384 kbps up/dn. To participate, you're only 
supposed to need a 100 kbps connection, but since when have specs ever 
been true in reality?

Quoted from The iChat page: 
<http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/ichat/>
> 384Kbps Internet connection (up/down)

Cable is notorious for inconsistent throughput. You may be at your 
limit.

Matthew

On May 28, 2005, at 2:04 PM, Victoria L. Herring wrote:

> 	Is anyone else having problems doing the 2-3 way thing using Tiger 
> and iChat = while on Mediacom cable??  I called Mediacom and it is 
> supposed to be fast enough (3G down and  256k up) maybe but I'm having 
> those intermittent 'insufficient bandwidth' messages on and off, 
> mostly off, and trying to figure it out.
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