Review by namida12 
UPDATED: 1.8 years ago
member for 5 years, 77 visits, last login: 1 days ago
 Las Vegas,Clark,NV
 $63 per month
 about 2 days
 "The system is rapid on the www, now that all the wiring from in the street has been replaced (3 years)"
 "Newsgroups service still has many incompletes, and number of connections allowed is limited since the outsourcing."
 "When the system is working it is twice as fast as the only major competitor in The Las Vegas Market Embarq/Earthlink"
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When I switched from Sprint/Earthlink for pricing reasons, I enrolled in the Cox Cable system. I thought I was in Usenet heaven; I went from 440 kbps to 3,000 kbps in most speed test locations with dslreports. The multi-part completion and number of NG was amazing, Cox Cable was number one in my book after I signed first up.
In the beginning of my subscription Cox did a wonderful job with newsgroups, I was pleased as punch; Cox was far better than my experience had become with Using Earthlink. Earthlink had limited posting to 60 images per day, and you had to beg Earthlink to let you have more posting capacity. Downloads were a major problem with missing parts, only a few NG, I subscribed to were getting posting par files so I could repair downloads in several NG.
After becoming adjusted to spectacular Usenet service that Cox Cable supplied, I believe it was March 2004 I received an e-mail from Cox that they were excited to announce a Usenet upgrade. The letter went on & on that there might be a few problems during the change over. It was only a few problems in the beginning, but one day I woke up and newsgroups were worse than Earthlink's poor service.
I had to reach into my pocketbook, and pay for a premium Usenet supplier, since Cox Usenet service had deteriorated until it was useless without having another source to do fills in most binary multi-part posting.
In September 2006 the rumor surfaced that Cox cable was going to increase the Las Vegas Valley Internet speed to match what Phoenix Arizona has been enjoying. Late October the speed increases were completed, by November everything in my immediate neighborhood that had speed problems had been solved.
My feeling using the 10,000 kbps download and 1,000 uploading is great, and it lets me use my premium Usenet account… Cox is still experiencing lots of e-mail problems and Yahoo to Cox or Cox to Yahoo is still completely undependable.
April – 29 –07 The internet speed have doubled the last several days, a test or something else I do not know, but I am certainly enjoying the speed increases. With these speeds increases it would be very easy to abuse the loosely enforced downloading limits, but I spend less time completing downloads. I am enjoying this extra time toying with a "SimplyMepis" 64 bit Linux installation.
Overall, the prices have increased, the newsgroup service is poor, but it is the only game in town, since Embarq cannot deliver advertised speeds to my section of Vegas.
JR Namida
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Newsgroups are horrid, calling support is a waste of time... I reset my modem 3 or 4 times a day for no service problems...
4 times a week i have no TV, Internet service, or both are no working...
My entire area can be out, and Support tells me I am the only one in the area with no service, I go next door, or up the street and everyone has reported the outage or is in the process of making an outage report...
If there was anyone else offering 1/2 my speeds I would change immediately. Cox Communications can not keep my area on line, nor will they inform anyone why we lose service (we all get entirely different stories).
Cox Comunications e-mail service has become impossible... But when you have no other service except dial-up speeds, what choice does one have...
JR
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