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[AR] cox enforcing caps in arkansdas and kansas

Who is the other provider in your area with no caps you have knowledge of? We have AT&T and Cox. There is no way to avoid the upcoming caps.

century link or wind stream. Neither have caps and no plans for them. I live in a apartment Now where century link services I am in the process of finding me a house where Windstream services. I need to hurry up before the housing market Improves. I find renting Is cheaper than owning a house.

reply to jchambers28
eeeekkkkk....guess i need to keep an eye on this....lol

I think the whole cap thing is so cox can get more money out of the customer. It's never in the customers best interest. I saw this coming from a distance so I called cox. Cox knows most people don't have choices for internet services so lets caps them and charge more money. I have some older friends that are not happy with cox move toward caps. They all subscribe to starter Internet. And plan to jump ship. And move to Centurylink and Winstream with no caps.

If the ISP is xDSL or hybrid fiber-coax based I see caps coming no matter who they are. Once the big companies figure out how to measure usage, inform customers of usage and charge for additional buckets of bytes, the little guys are sure to follow. I think the only ISPs to not do this will be those that are fully FTTH based and boring in the service they offer. We, The Little FTTH ISP, took a GPON line, split it 96 ways, and each of you get 10Mbps symmetrical. Use it all you want. No, there are no faster tiers. No, there are no slower tiers. Yes overhead has been taken into account as 1.244 Gbps/96= 13 Mbps. Yes, it costs 39.99 per month, 10 e-mail boxes included.

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This is a soft cap.. the metered toolbar is to ensure that you are aware of what your using per month. Where's the news that cox will be having hard caps in sept 15th? This has been going on for almost a year.

Well this post, »[GA] Cox enforcing data cap in Middle Georgia, says they are shutting down users today in GA for a 101.5% usage, and making them call in to get restored.

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$5 more? What tier do you have now?

I noticed they just lit us up with 8 channel bonding(used to be 4) and 64QAM upstream modulation now. What's the point of more speed? So we can blow through our caps faster!

I've got no choices here except for AT&T which also has caps. Only hope is some fiber from another company in talks about doing fiber to the home in this area to compete with Cox and AT&T Uverse. But thats probably years out. I could look at a WISP that's here but I bet they are expensive and more for business use here.

Going to look at if there's anything to do a mesh network with multiple connections to share the caps between 4 or 5 homes that have internet already there. And no I'm not talking about sharing internet to someone that doesn't pay a bill so don't jump on that idea of it being stealing.
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reply to jchambers28

I am west of you in Alma. Thanks for reminding me I need to move the files from media store and share as well.

You're almost right across the river from me, actually....if I didn't have to go back to Van Buren to get across the river, I could get to Alma in about 5 minutes... LOL

Oh yea! I can't remember the drop dead date, but they will nuke the data if it is still out there.

Funny, they used to have the 25 GB store and share for $2.50 a month, now they have 50 GB for free. At least the backup client works a lot better...

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WHAT THE @#$@#$@#@!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now...wouldnt a normal company with normal working human beings at least send out a LETTER, an EMAIL about this change of plans? Mine isnt even listed ast september 15th , it apparently started in april! (the tracking, not enforcement.)

This changes a TON of stuff! HD videos? Audio streaming, gaming all this stuff that I do on a constant basis now i have to worry about a cap as well??

its just another way of cox trying to get more money out of people. Now i have to watch what i do like a hawk, even using basic things like uploading Youtube vids, all my freelance artwork (which easily hits 20 gig or more every month). Let me guess the PC response is, spend more money. Great. Terrific. Thanks for slapping your users in the face cox, you should have sent out an email. Oh wait, you dont do that, it might help someone.

Thats the final straw. Ive got to find someone else. Maybe i can find an ISP that has the man parts necessary to TELL me when policy's change instead of letting me run into a invisible brick wall then say "oh yea, we put that in yesterday..sorry..oh ya gotta pay more to get past it. "

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Yeah, I have noticed that Cox was planned to put the data allowance tab in it of an user account in Kansas here.

first of all, I have no issues as long as i am under 250GB usage average in all of down and up traffics that I am using the Networx app to containuous the monitoring my network incoming and outcoming a traffics on my premier tier here.

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apologies for the anger, (to the community, not cox). i hate it when they pull massive changes and dont even mention a thing. IM going seriously check into AT&T. At least with them i wouldnt have to pay for basic cable, that i never use.

apologies excepted.

reply to voidster
AT&T have cap also too. if you go over the cap then they will cut you off for sure.