Mediacom Says Entire Network Will Be Gigabit-Ready by Year's End Mediacom today announced that the nation's fifth-largest cable company intends to deploy upgrades that will deliver gigabit-capable cable broadband speeds before the end of the year. According to the Mediacom announcement, the company's DOCSIS 3.1-based "Gigasphere" platform will deliver gigabit speeds to "virtually all" of the 3 million homes and businesses that Mediacom serves across its 22 state footprint.

The company's new minimum entry level speed for residential customers will increase to 60 Mbps while flagship offerings of 100 Mbps and 200 Mbps will also be available. Moreover, Mediacom says it will begin rolling out ultra-fast 500 Mbps and 1-Gig (1000 Mbps) products on "a market by market basis in the coming weeks." In its announcement, Mediacom is quick to take a few pot shots at what I affectionately call "fiber to the press release," or gigabit announcements only made available to key housing developments, but dressed up to appear significantly larger than they actually are. "Unlike some other competitors who offer 1-Gig speeds only in select neighborhoods in their service areas, our 1-Gig service will be accessible to absolutely everyone within the reach of our network, regardless of the size, income-level or other demographics of their community," said Mediacom. That said, the ISP also took a shot at the FCC's net neutrality rules, which ISPs claimed would destroy network investment in the broadband sector (tip: that didn't happen). "I am especially proud that the substantial investments in our rural markets were made despite the heavy-handed and unfair regulatory burdens recently imposed on our company by the FCC," insists Mediacom CEO Rocco Commisso. The company has yet to specify whether these faster speeds will come with the company's The company has yet to specify whether these faster speeds will come with the company's unpopular usage caps , or just how much this new gigabit service will cost. Those interested can find more detail in the full announcement , or head into our Mediacom forum for some additional conversation.







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DeLiver

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Cincinnatus, NY 7 recommendations DeLiver Premium Member Just one comment. "Mediacom today announced that the nation's eighth-largest company intends to..."



8th largest company in the nation? What?

neofate

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Birmingham, AL 3 recommendations neofate Premium Member What about upload? I'd be curious what their uploads speeds for that 1,000 Mbps connection are. I suspect 20-30 Mbps on 4x Bonded channels. Where is it going - and how soon? When will they have say even a 10:1 DL/UL ratio?



This is the biggest issue with these gigabit offerings from cable providers -- 1000 to 10, 20, or 30 -- is just too asymmetric. Until Echo cancellation comes around with implemented Full bandwidth available for Rx and Tx it's a tough road to get passed this issue -- D3.1 without EC allows for more upload bandwidth but it requires high splits and a lot of work and money. Are they doing this? ghosti

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united state 3 recommendations ghosti Member Funny considering they cannot provide the speeds they already have in many m Just take a look at their own "official support forums". Page after page after page of customers not able to get anywhere near the contracted speed, and many have been ongoing issues for months, and in a few cases, years.



I have not been able to get even half of my contracted speed (100/10) since October (was getting about 50/10 from Oct-1st week of Dec). After maintenance on 12/5, my area is averaging about 10/10, with frequent bouts of zero throughput at all. Mediacom is fully aware, they just don't care. First they claimed it was just me, then when others around me confirmed it they changed the story to card noise. They claimed to have fixed that, but the issue has persisted and they claim there is no saturation driving down speeds. They promised to do maintenance last Monday, that never occured so our area, 3 weeks later is stuck with barely performing internet. All our signals are excellent +/-2 on ds power with avg 43 snr, bonded to 8 channels. Upstream is bonded to 3 channels, all 46-50 on power. Little to no errors reporting.



Simply no bandwidth available and three weeks later not a single improvement. Why? Because they are a monopoly here, there is no alternative so they know they don't need to fix this.



Similar stories are present all over their site, customers fighting for months and years to simply get something close to what we contracted. Now they are boosting speeds in markets they have no capacity to boost just so they can CLAIM they offer faster speeds.



Offering and delivering are two different things....Mediacom has not figured out how to do the latter yet CONSISTENTLY.