My ISP Blows

Before going any further,  I should say that my ISP is Mediacom.  They are 1 of 2 internet service providers for this area.  The other is Verizon DSL.  Not fast compared to Mediacom.  Here is my speed for Mediacom ...

I did a test today but not quite impressive as this one

Not bad speeds. Actually I think the speeds are just fine for me. I could use a boost in upload to host a decent Xbox Live game. Just for shit n giggles, I'm including a ping test. Awesome ping I may say.

A+ quality ping right there

If  I move outside this area then I can get Comcast.  Verizon DSL is my backup internet now.  Verizon DSL is decent for basic web browsing, emailing, chat.  I didn't do a speed test but their average download is about 3mbps and around 700kbps for upload.  Not recommended for online gaming.  Anyway thank god I did because fucking Mediacom blows when it comes to uptime.

I come home last night from work and notice the internet is down.  Ok no problem.  I'll go to my back up.  3 hours later, Mediacom is still down.  My roommate tells me that the internet was down for 10 hours.  10 FUCKING HOURS!  To me that really unacceptable.  What really blows my horn is that Mediacom never ever sends out an email telling me that they will cut off the internet for so and so hours for maintenance.  No website with a status update.  Not even their twitter account mentions anything about the servers being down.  That what peeves me about this company is that they just don't inform their customers about this sort of stuff.  They did however emailed us that they were gonna change their web email clients and web hosting.  In that email they said that this switchover will no way affect us.  Well it did.  It lead to a month of internet dropping out.  Way before that, It did the same thing.  Internet would drop out almost everyday.  I said, screw it let get Verizon DSL as a back up.  Came in handy many many times.  They'll be a period of 1-2 months of 24/7 uptime but then their will be a week of the internet dropping out every night.  Then back to normal for another month or 2.

Fraking Mediacom!!

Can't remember who told me but I vaguely remember a friend saying that Mediacom buys really cheap servers.  I'm frankly not surprised.  Those servers must crap out a lot.  That probably why their costs is so low.  Now what I'm hearing is that Mediacom is going for 50/5 and 100/10  speeds now.  Both not available in my area just yet.  I am assuming that both will be expensive.  I'm not complaining about speeds, just the uptime.  Mediacom has horrible horrible horrible uptime.  My fellow readers, how does your ISP compare?  Leave a comment!