 MJimLayAKA FlexBaudPremium
join:2004-10-06
Pensacola, FL
kudos:2 | [FL] They must be out of their minds!!
U-Verse Internet Pricing | 
Cox Speed | | 
Cox Speed |
U-Verse has been officially launched in my market and being the curious person I am, I wanted to see how the speed and price compared to Cox.
»www.fox10tv.com/dpp/news/scitech···atellite
I currently pay $150 a month for Cox, give or take a few dollars. I have the following:
1 HD DVR
2 Regular Digital Boxes
1 Cable Ready TV (no box)
Preferred Internet (12/1 with Powerboost) at $46.95
HBO/Cinemax free for 1 year
Total Digital (Encore, etc)
I often pull over 30 Mbit's with my connection thanks to Powerboost and can download most files within seconds. Rarely have any technical problems and the few I do have are almost always on my end.
Television services could use improvement, but Cox is the only provider that carries channels such as BLAB TV, WFGX, WUWF, and a ton of other local only channels. It's also nice being able to connect cable ready TV's without having to get a box.
Now, I'd admit... the clean UI of U-Verse TV and full house DVR is nice, but for me, that is just eye candy.
So... tell me, why is AT&T wasting their time launching their "fiber-optic" service in this area? LOL!!! |
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 Ikyuao
join:2007-02-26
Wichita, KS
 ·Cox HSI
1 edit | AT&T is really wasting their time to deploying a crappy 18Mbits/1.5Mbits, AT&T is shit company anyways. Cox will be able to provides lots of speeds and also with Cox's new DOCSIS 3 that should be provides up to 150Mbits downstream speeds than rubbish shit AT&T pathetic company.
That is i getting lots of speeds from Cox is much cheaper than AT&T's
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1 edit | I have had phone service through AT&T for years, plus I have an AT&T ADSL Internet connection as a backup for my Cox HSI link. Based on my experiences, I have very few complaints about AT&T, and I would not hesitate to recommend them to someone. Not sure why you seem to hate the company. Can't please everybody, I suppose. |
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Ikyuao
join:2007-02-26
Wichita, KS Reviews:
·Cox HSI
| in my experience based with cox here that i have fewer problems with Cox HSI of speeds and the billing system than those shit AT&T company however that AT&T is wasting their time and money to deploying the fiber optical that's lots of cost to deploy the fiber optical lines be close to the homes so in compare to the cable companies that they deployed the fiber optical lines to the cable nodes since 1988 don't you know?
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MJimLayAKA FlexBaudPremium
join:2004-10-06
Pensacola, FL
kudos:2 | reply to daveinpoway
said by daveinpoway:I have had phone service through AT&T for years, plus I have an AT&T ADSL Internet connection as a backup for my Cox HSI link. Based on my experiences, I have very few complaints about AT&T, and I would not hesitate to recommend them to someone. Not sure why you seem to hate the company. Can't please everybody, I suppose. I don't have anything against AT&T, however I have always seen them as expensive when compared to alternatives. I also know people who used their DSL service and didn't have any issues, just always seen it as a slower, more expensive connection. |
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MJimLayAKA FlexBaudPremium
join:2004-10-06
Pensacola, FL
kudos:2 | reply to Ikyuao
said by Ikyuao:in my experience based with cox here that i have fewer problems with Cox HSI of speeds and the billing system than those shit AT&T company however that AT&T is wasting their time and money to deploying the fiber optical that's lots of cost to deploy the fiber optical lines be close to the homes so in compare to the cable companies that they deployed the fiber optical lines to the cable nodes since 1988 don't you know? During the Cox@Home to Cox HSI conversion here, it was a nightmare for a year or two. Price hikes, unstable connection, etc. I came so close to switching to DSL at that time, but at the time DSL was onlt 1.5 and cable was 3.0. I never had a issue with speed at that time, just the connection being very unstable. However, as time went on service improved and the bugs were worked out of the system as to be expected with a large conversion like that. Later on, we started getting a lot of speed increases, new extra's (cox rewards, mediashare, etc) so, I'd have to give kudos to Cox for the massive improvement/enhancement in the past 5 years.
As for billing issues, I've had my share of billing issues with Cox, but honestly... no more than any other company. I've had my share of issues with AT&T in regards to billing issues. The only company that I can think of that I never had a billing issue with was T-Mobile... I've always found them to have the best customer service/billing department. However, their actual service was another story.
I'll take good service over customer service any day of the week. Overall, I am very happy with Cox  |
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Ikyuao
join:2007-02-26
Wichita, KS | Also I'm very happy with Cox HSI speeds and billing system |
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 danielk
join:2009-02-01
Greenwood, MO
·Comcast
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I love my Cox Premier as much as the next guy believe you me, it's been great for the wichita market 
I'm waiting to see what happens once AT&T rolls out pair bonding and seeing more FTTP installs. Cox and AT&T aren't that different when it comes to the horror stories. |
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I have check AT&T's site for U-Verse, that was six months ago, I couldn't get U-Verse. So I checked today and I still can't get U-Verse. The site says I can get dry loop and regular DSL, though, from AT&T but DSL is slower than Cox High Speed Internet, but it's cheaper. On Cox HSI, I get 29
to 33Mbps down and 1-3Mbps up off peak time period, 20 to 24Mbps down and 1-2Mbps up peak time but speeds are still very good and fast. I live in Topeka, Kansas. |
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Rob_Premium
join:2008-07-16
Mary Esther, FL | you are seeing powerboost, nothing real
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Ikyuao
join:2007-02-26
Wichita, KS Reviews:
·Cox HSI
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That is your decision about the broadband options, if you can get ATT DSL or U-verse that's good for you and i'm waiting for DOCSIS 3 be upgraded in CMTS at Cox HSI ISP.
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MJimLayAKA FlexBaudPremium
join:2004-10-06
Pensacola, FL
kudos:2 | reply to Rob_
said by Rob_:you are seeing powerboost, nothing real It's real, and it does exactly what it is supposed to do. It greatly improves web surfing and downloading of small files (up to 20 seconds or 20 megabytes) which is fine as most files I download are those sizes anyway. If I am going to download an ISO, I don't mind waiting and you still get the extra boost at the beginning of the file. I love powerboost. |
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Ikyuao
join:2007-02-26
Wichita, KS Reviews:
·Cox HSI
2 edits | Yes, that is exactly obvious correct it is real of speeds right there and I'm sure that i'd love the DOCSIS 3 when the speeds gets breaks out in the blaze speeds upward toward to 150Mbits downstream like hell of speeds I'm sure that i were getting up to 3.0MB of data transfer rate in the blaze speeds that smokes AT&T rubbish max around 1.8MB between to 2.0MB data transfer rate out
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Rob_Premium
join:2008-07-16
Mary Esther, FL | would be nice if pensacola got D3 though. |
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My findings have been that many sites (at least at the present time) cannot send data out to you even at 20 Mbps, much less 150 Mbps. Some don't even reach 1 Mbps (especially if there are a lot of people downloading the content at the same time). Even "big-name" sites like Apple and Microsoft fall victim to this.
So, all of the extra speed capabilities of your connection will go largely unused, until the sites upgrade their server equipment. |
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Those prices aren't very enticing. 18/1.5Mbps for $65? I had that years ago for less money.
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 JigsawStardust We ArePremium
join:2000-10-21
Cleveland, OH | reply to MJimLay
Competition is good but AT@T is lost they have made a major major mistake not going fiber to the home.They called me up a few times here i just tell them call me when you have fiber.
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Ikyuao
join:2007-02-26
Wichita, KS Reviews:
·Cox HSI
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That doesn't matter about lots of people were downloading at the content time of same of location so admin are responsible to take care of their servers and their bigger bandwidth connections or maybe there is internet traffic throttling down in the mostly every nightly... but not in my case issues since that i optimized the internet myself for ahead of the future of prepared for more bandwidth just like DOCSIS3 that more likely be becomes available in the every state markets, on my optimized internet connection that is for preserved for more bandwidth and less times to complete the download stuff in the greatly incredible speeds.
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danielk
join:2009-02-01
Greenwood, MO Reviews:
·Comcast
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said by Jigsaw: Competition is good but AT@T is lost they have made a major major mistake not going fiber to the home.They called me up a few times here i just tell them call me when you have fiber. It's uncommon, but some homes in newer subdivisions (There's one here in wichita) have fiber wired through from the VRAD to the premises, in which the case AT&T would proceed with a FTTP install, which removes the "pains" of interleaving and may show other benefits over FTTN i'd guess. |
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 tubbynetreminds me of the danse russePremium,MVM
join:2008-01-16
Chandler, AZ | said by danielk:It's uncommon, but some homes in newer subdivisions (There's one here in wichita) have fiber wired through from the VRAD to the premises, in which the case AT&T would proceed with a FTTP install, which removes the "pains" of interleaving and may show other benefits over FTTN i'd guess. its actually not that much different than what they are doing with the vrads. what they are doing here is shortening the loop length. by running "fiber to the curb", you are reducing the length from several k-feet to a few hundred. this will allow you to synch with the vrad at 100mbps plus. over this, you are able to run multiple hd feeds and have high speed internet. its still the same as your vanilla vdsl u-verse.
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