[DM-MUG] iChat AV failures on Mediacom?

[Bill Davis]

FYI, Mediacom seems to be speeding up their local service.  A friend 
and I have both recently noticed that we're now getting upwards of 
500KB per second when downloading.  (I recently had 'em out to fix my 
service too; the cable hardware here at the townhouse was in need of a 
"cleaning".   Not sure what the upload speed is (don't do that 
much....)

To check the signal, the service tech used the following address in my 
web browser:

http://192.168.100.1/

then clicked "signal" in the bar at the top of the screen.  NOTE: My 
cable modem is a Motorola Surfboard; this advice may not apply if yours 
is a different model.    Anyway, he looked at the "signal to noise 
ratio" in the "Downstream" section at the top, which is 37 dB for mine 
now.  He said it should be in the mid-to-high 30's or upper 40's.  
Below 30 is bad.  Something you can check, maybe, to see if your signal 
is ok.


  - Bill


On May 29, 2005, at 6:09 AM, Victoria L. Herring wrote:

> 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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