Been having issues with Mediacom internet for awhile, connection seems to drop intermittently and come back any time through out the day, connection drops from 10-30 seconds to a couple minutes. It's getting to the point to where I'm seriously considering to drop them and go back to the good ol reliable DSL. My connection speed is fine through a test from DSLreports but does show a high ping rate http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest/225151 ,however, speakeasy and speedtest.net both don't work and say there is a latency issue. after a few minutes, Speedtest.net now works and shows a ping of 38ms.
I really don't know what to do next. The kids are on the wireless a lot, the desktop is hard wired through the router (D-Link 655). The desktop has issues with some websites not coming up while others do so I really can't establish a pattern. I'm at a loss and frustrated. Below are the signals from the modem:
Power Level: Signal to Noise Ratio:
Channel 1: 0.2 dBmV 37.6 dB
Channel 2: 1.6 dBmV 39.1 dB
Channel 3: 1.1 dBmV 39.4 dB
Channel 4: 0.9 dBmV 38.8 dB
Channel 5: 1.2 dBmV 38.7 dB
Channel 6: 1.4 dBmV 39.0 dB
Channel 7: 1.5 dBmV 38.6 dB
Channel 8: 1.1 dBmV 38.2 dB
I need to either figure something out or just switch, but that means it's going to take some time cause we have Mediacom for all 3 services. I'm not too keen on having Mediacom come out cause their local techs are dumb IMO. I honestly think part of the issue is the location of our house and long drop we have, but not really for sure. Is there a way to monitor the connection to see when it drops? Would a smokeping do this?
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