I feel a little dirty but I ordered CL DSL last week. Although Mediacom offers 1gig in my area and well it's freaking fast I am tired of the $120/mo bill.
With the 1TB clarification on the CL cap it seemed logical I could save a fortune with CL, Mediacom caps kill any chance at a less than $80/mo bill. CL is slower... much slower but manageable.
Ok so in the order the loop qualification put me at 7mb yea that is awful but I don't believe the loop qualification speed. Neighbors all are in the 20mb range I am about 4 blocks from the CO. Some friends I know further down the line, say another 4 blocks are getting a reliable 12.
And I do have a good understanding of the local network, no remote DSLAMS.
To prepare my family for the soon to be pain of DSL I rate limited my Ubiquiti edge router x at 7MB and did some crafty QOS tricks to streaming video. Netflix, DTV Now, Youtube... nobody said a word. Well my daughter figured out the Smart TV would still do 4K on netflix but the Tivo was doing SD. Smart 10 year old. :)
Install is on Wed so I dug up my trusty Moto 3347 to see if I could do a firmware update or anything, last time I loaned this out was 2014 I still had the firmware on my machine.
So now you know the backstory time for my questions :)
I plan to pass thru to my Edge Router and let it deal with the real problems.
Will the Modem sync up at the fastest speed it can?
Should I pick up something better to maximize my chances at a better sync speed?
I have not had DSL since stuff like Bonding or VDSL/ADSL2+ became a thing, I am skeptical what the CO supports. With the 12/20mb speeds I have seen from others, what technology do you think I should prepare for? (We are a old Qwest market) I do know I have seen the 7mb qualification for others before but in the end they did better.
Thanks for any suggestions!
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