Viewing a single comment thread. View all comments

feralfantastic t1_j0eeiwr wrote

Mediacom is allowing its infrastructure to rot on the vine.

Quick guide to Brightspeed:

(1) I log internet uptime. They’ve had four outages in about two months, each lasting no more than two minutes. Imperfect, but an improvement over any other ISP.

(2) The router they provide is not great. You’re better off using your own router that meets your requirements. You will have to VLAN tag the WAN port with “201” in order to access Brightspeed through the ONT (fiber modem). Once your router is up and running the Brightspeed router can be put to satisfactory use as a kinetic deterrent to any urban fox infestations you happen to be dealing with.

(3) “Gigabit” will not normally manifest in any measurement service. I’ve got rates at approximately that speed when downloading Linux ISO, etc, but Speedtest generally only shows 250-300, maxing out at around 350Mbps.

2

KTfl1 t1_j0ifbtu wrote

Gigabit, 250-300, sounds like max wifi speeds. Have you used a wired connection to the modem or router to measure?

1

feralfantastic t1_j0ijn9l wrote

Whole backend is 2.5Gbps, and the wifi is late model Omada APs that can perform literal gigabit speeds with a Wifi6 device. Device is connected by Ethernet to an old laptop running my home automation software. I’d expect the built-in NIC to be 100Mbps (fast ethernet) or 895Mbps (gigabit), not this in-between number.

1