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  • Location: Scottsdale, Maricopa, AZ, USA
  • Cost: $63 per month
Service is pretty stable and solid
Ridiculous greedy 200gb cap, cablecard support is OK if you learn who to call.
The alternative is CenturyLink :0
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I have the High Speed Premier tier for my internet service. I use a Motorola DOCSIS 3 modem with the service and downloads are quite fast. Internet service has been pretty much problem-free over the past year and a half.

Ignore the cap apologist hanging like a barnacle off my review. Caps serve no purpose but to grab cash from customers and impede the progress of over the top video services.

For video service, certain channels like National Geographic HD are unwatchable at times because they are incapable of tuning the network to provide adequate signal quality into my home. They've been out a couple of times and I can no longer be bothered to keep calling them. Different tech, different excuse - and it takes four scheduled visits to get two quality visits from actual employees.

Their contractors are utterly useless and are not equipped to do much beyond deliver a couple of colecovisions, maybe activate them and leave fast before the subscriber sees digital mush behind the 1990's-inspired graphics.

Cox has lackluster on-demand video interfaces and set-top boxes with dated, Colecovision-inspired graphics.

Only attempt cablecard activation/support through the toll-free number presented on your cablecard activation screen. Calling the local number will get you to someone with no training or information about your cablecard - you risk the fragile structure of your account being damaged. Call the number on your cablecard activation screen.

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JohnW3
join:2011-03-13

JohnW3

Member

on the cap..

there's a reason for the cap. how cable internet works everyone in a particular neighborhood shares the same node. it's not greed it's their way of trying to have everyone's fair share on bandwith all times. I don't know about u but I have no worries dropped netflix streaming while back due to rate increase and I prefer "old school" DVD's for my movies. besides the streaming selection sucks along with quality. I rarely use bittorrent as well and it's only for CD's movies quality mostly crap unless it's a direct DVD copy not a "cam". for my needs the cap doesn't bother me and good luck if u switch to Suddenlink DSL it's one of the worst broadband providers in the country.
sparky007
join:2011-08-25
Phoenix, AZ

sparky007

Member

Century the missing link

The caps are a bunch of BS... They didn't have them before and they don't need them now. Just another $$$$ maker since all your doing is moving electrons around in a copper cable. No more $$$$ is needed if you’re using it or not.

As far as Century the missing link. Good luck. The "DSL Technicians" were hired from Mc Donald’s. "Ding fries are done!!"
They tried to sell me 7 Megs down and 700K up and I’m over 17000 feet away from the main CO... I didn’t think it would work and I was right.

Well…. It did work for a few hours within a 3 week trial period.
A friend of mine living in Maricopa has the 7 Meg down and 700K up and it does work... He only has about 5000 feet of cable from the main CO. I told him he should have better luck than I did... So far for him so good.
XIII
Premium Member
join:2010-06-16
Scottsdale, AZ

XIII

Premium Member

Caps

Cox, unlike most other cable companies, only enforce that cap if it meets on of the following (generally, varies by market) and they dont charge for it:

utilization on your node is high - this is the biggest part, if utilization is low then as long as you are not saturating the node over a certain percentage, which varies by market

you are being excessive for 2 or more months, excessive would be similar to you having a 250 GB cap and you are using 1000 GB or more
tim92078
join:2010-07-15
San Marcos, CA

tim92078

Member

Re: Caps

Caps are anti-competitive.

I really don't care about all the other stuff. Cox's meter is not accurate, nor is there any transparency or standardization across the cable industry for managing usage.

If they're going to nickel and dime us for data, the meter should be treated just like a scale at a deli or a gas pump. If a gas station is only dispensing .9 gallons of gas yet charging for 1, it will be -at minimum - fined. Same with a deli. If that scale registers 1 pound as 1.1 pounds, there will be some attention-getting (i.e. hit the merchant in their wallet) action taken. Same concept should apply to bandwidth metering if they're going to insist upon it.

Where's the accountability? The numbers on my router do not match Cox's bandwidth meter. The shape of the graph day by day is roughly the same, but the numbers aren't even close.

What's more, the cost of delivering that extra nebulous, inaccurate gigabyte is minimal compared to what they propose to charge for it. Yes, I "get it" that they're in business to make a profit - but the delta between their cost and their retail price is huge. They're holding the threat over our heads that they could randomly and capriciously gouge us for any month based on node level network statistics that are kept secret from the public. It's all a scare tactic to keep me worried about how much bandwidth I'm using to watch Netflix and continuing to pay a 5% or more annual price increase across the board for all of their services.

Cox is rapidly approaching a point (with this customer) where the price point of their services will be more than what I'm willing to pay. Two years from now it's unlikely I'll be spending such an outrageous amount of money for video services if they keep up the upward pressure on price.