My Internet was working for about an hour this morning & now it's down again.
MediaCom Internet Down
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Mine was down all night and I was in the middle of a heated, on-line Scrabble game... 
I have Verizon wireless which I am using for the first time since we arrived on Jan 3rd. It seems to be working better then my Verizon phone service as long as I stay in the same spot. Do I need to do anything to the Medicom box once my signal is back? I have a Netgear box... Thanks for any input.
If this was indeed a DNS outage, you can insure that you are not held captive to the idiots at MediaCom for your DNS by using OpenDNS instead:
OpenDNS | Internet Navigation And Security
I have used this for a few years (since the first time MC had a DNS outage) and it has always worked.
In a nutshell, you change your DNS servers to:
OpenDNS | Internet Navigation And Security
I have used this for a few years (since the first time MC had a DNS outage) and it has always worked.
In a nutshell, you change your DNS servers to:
- 208.67.222.222 (resolver1.opendns.com)
- 208.67.220.220 (resolver2.opendns.com)
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Guess they didn't learn anything from you chasing the van down the street to repair the last "regional" outage that was a cut cable in the neighbor's yard.
Yes, good think I was sitting down for that one! :roll:
That's why I wasn't having problems. I love opendns and it seems to speed up the internet since it's not dogging through MediaCon's DNS servers.
P.S. MediaCon's DNS servers track what you are doing, you never know what they are retaining and looking at.
They told me that an ice storm in the midwest caused damage to the servers that serve this area. Mine was down for about 24 hours from wed night to thursday evening.
So is this the server setting you use permanently all-the-time? 'Cuz it makes me nuts that when I get on my Embarq (whatever their name is now) land line, over the last few months it has started knocking out my MC internet connection. I can't figure out what one has to do with the other?
That's a whole different can of worms.
God rest the poor souls that lost their lives. :shock:
Okay, that's sarcasm. Even though our data center is located in South Florida and is built like a bunker, they all are. Keep in mind that communication in a large company is usually pretty slow if at all from the higher ups to the front line. Many times customer service agents come up with things on the fly or have heard things on break that aren't necessarily true.