[DM-MUG] iChat AV failures on Mediacom?

[Victoria L. Herring]

Well, since I was looking at Cable versus DSL, the next Q is whether 
to go ahead and move to DSL and jettison Cable...is that any 
better???  And what DSL provider here has good deals and service??

>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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