[DM-MUG] Networking and Slower than Molassas

[Bill Davis]

It could be a Mediacom hardware problem.  I had a situation once or twice
where my cable connection was getting noisy and this impacted speed - the
noise beyond a certain level caused too may transmission errors.   They had
to send someone out to fix it.  Don't know if it was the box on our unit, or
a neighborhood routing box or whatever.   Another sign of the problem was
that my cable TV connection was getting "snowy".

Not sure what cable modem you have, but mine is a "Motorola Surfboard".   I
have some notes on the last time I had a problem.

If you have a Moto Surfboard, try what they told me to do:  Direct your web
browser to http://192.168.100.1/   This is the cable modem's configuration
and status screen.

I was told to click the "Signal" tab and that the signal-to-noise ratio
should be in the high 30's or above.  20's is bad.

Another time it was just my cable modem going bad.  They replaced it.

 - Bill


On 7/31/08, Victoria L. Herring <vlh at herringlaw.com> wrote:
>
>  What could be reasons for it taking 'forever' for a page [more than one,
> really] to load in Safari or Firefox.  I have mchsi at 7633kbpsdown/482kpbs
> up and that's [I think] the fastest it goes.  But I have noticed over the
> past 2 or so days that loading pages in these browsers is taking even more
> time than usual - at first I thought it was the DNS problem & fixed that but
> loading sites is slower than I am used to or remember it being not that long
> ago.
>
> I did run Activity Monitor and checked the info there  and all seems fine -
> I'm running MacPro OSX.5.4 and latest Safari and Firefox, not too many apps
> open, plenty of RAM...Belkin NWireless Router [tho this comptuer is wired,
> not wireless]
>
> what else should I be checking for?  I have unplugged all connections and
> restarted several times.
> [it just took 15 sec. in Firefox to load Apple's site, 20 sec. for Amazon -
> and in both Safari and Firefox I get one of those colored spinning
> beachballs if I try to close out of the browser...
>
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>
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