Rob_Premium
join:2008-07-16
Mary Esther, FL | reply to lilstone87
Re: [NV] Received email of a Cox Data Usage Notification The whole capping thing is stupid, and I have a feeling it won't last, there's too much of a hurdle to get to the bandwidth meter (logging in twice.. for example) and when/if google launches their service in more (cox) cities, watch the caps go bye bye and the bandwidth go up.
It's due to lack of competition, while I'm not against Cox making a profit, I'm more for the little people because, the rates keep going up, soon the people won't be able to afford internet.
Cox has been really good to me and I do not mind paying for American jobs, and keeping them HERE. However, this little thing called a data cap churns my stomach.
-Rob |
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| said by Rob_:The whole capping thing is stupid, and I have a feeling it won't last, there's too much of a hurdle to get to the bandwidth meter (logging in twice.. for example)
Cox has been really good to me and I do not mind paying for American jobs, and keeping them HERE. However, this little thing called a data cap churns my stomach.
-Rob
Totally agree! And what further 'churns our stomachs' is their double login PERIOD. Now we can't even login to web mail using anything but Opera (and that is a double login also) - see latest thread on the new insanity we are now dealing with. |
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m8trix
join:2003-12-24
Phoenix, AZ
kudos:3 | reply to JasonCable
dont know why you are having to login 2x, i log in once and it keeps me in and im using IE 9. try clearing your cookies and temp files |
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| reply to KahunaNui
I've seen several people mention a "double log in" which I don't understand. Can someone post a screen shot?
I go to webmail.cox.net (usually with Chrome) and it redirects to a log in page (East or West depending on my location and traffic). I log in and it takes me right to my inbox. |
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| Yeah I simply click the sign in to webmail under find it fast on the main cox page. I sign in, then click on internet tool. Which takes a second to load, then click data usage. I use chrome myself, and never have to double login to reach my data usage meter. |
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| Yes, same. Internet Tools are accessible on the left side, without exiting webmail or logging in again.
... for me. |
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said by No_Strings:I go to webmail.cox.net (usually with Chrome) and it redirects to a log in page (East or West depending on my location and traffic). I log in and it takes me right to my inbox.
Consider yourselves lucky... entered that address,
redirected to the east login, logged in and bang! registration page.
You probably never even saw that page... we'll post screen of it when we can.
This is really maddening... |
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| reply to JasonCable
you could move to a business account with no caps. |
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Rob_Premium
join:2008-07-16
Mary Esther, FL | Who's got $XXX a month? I don't! We shouldn't have to move to a business account
When more and more of us become (and stay) connected thanks to tablets, phones and more online devices in the future, the more and more average users will find out about a crap.. I mean cap.
Remember, a non BBR user has no idea what a data cap is. I had to explain to some people about it. (and they use skype to talk to their son who's defending our country overseas)
-Rob |
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| reply to JasonCable
IF, and I know it is a big if, AT&T does the network upgrades they announced recently, I wonder how that would effect Cox's attitude on significantly raising the existing caps, separating speed from usage limits, or doing away with caps completely. Obviously AT&T will impose per byte billing on any LTE connection, similar to Verizon's Home Fusion. What if Randall L. Stephenson and his "crew" decide that wireline per byte billing and speed tiers are not cost effective? Just have a single charge for IP DSL. The speed you get is whatever the modem can do and you use it as much as you want. A single charge all you can use domestic VOIP is the default for voice. POTS disappears. That significantly simplifies wireline billing. In areas where AT&T and Cox coexist that could hurt Cox some. Even limited competition like that could make Cox more reasonable about caps. Alternate worlds are nice to imagine. |
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Lokk
join:2001-11-01
Scottsdale, AZ | Same thing happened to me, with me being at 256GB out of 250GB with about 7 days left on the billing cycle. Meh. |
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| reply to lilstone87
There's plenty of examples of other countries were the ISP's typically do NOT cap bandwidth and they have no problem with all the supposed bandwidth "congestion" that we're always hearing about here - and yes, I'm talking about densely populated areas too, so please, I don't want to hear about how it's because we have so many more people. This is really all about money. If you had unlimited bandwidth you might get all your movie and TV needs satisfied online and cut your crappy cable television subscriptions, with their outdated and money-gouging tier system, along with a dozen taxes.
If you are interested in cutting your cable, though, or just have a little extra money to spend, then you can get what I consider a decent deal on a business account. I signed a contract for three years to get business internet at $99 a month, no taxes. |
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Got the same email today, I'm in Kansas though. Looking at my bandwidth usage over the past year I have gone way above the 250GB limit multiple times, even 350GB a couple months. In fact there were only 3 months this whole year I did NOT go over and this is the first email I've ever got about this. I'm 11GB over with 3 days left. Annoying, guess they are just now going to start doing something about these overages it seems. |
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| I'd considered myself so lucky and haven't been over the cap, I have the 500GB cap a month as 2x premier tiers that cost is 130 dollars what i am paying for. |
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Rob_Premium
join:2008-07-16
Mary Esther, FL | There's a 500 cap version?
-Rob |
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m8trix
join:2003-12-24
Phoenix, AZ
kudos:3 | no he is just paying for 2 lines of premier |
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| said by m8trix:no he is just paying for 2 lines of premier
And probably a hell of lot cheaper too, not too hard to do the dual wan thing either. |
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said by Rob_:There's a 500 cap version?
-Rob
No, I am paying for 2 premier lines that is 2x 250GB cap a month that total is 500GB a cap per monthly that cost is 130 dollars a month that's what i am payin' for. |
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tmlv
join:2012-11-18
Las Vegas, NV | reply to JasonCable
Paying for 2 lines seems kind of silly to me when you can have a Small Office Home Office account and not have a data cap... It's treated as a business account as well... It's roughly the same price, and you get a static IP with it, which is an added bonus. |
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| said by tmlv:Paying for 2 lines seems kind of silly to me when you can have a Small Office Home Office account and not have a data cap... It's treated as a business account as well... It's roughly the same price, and you get a static IP with it, which is an added bonus.
Well with business class to get good pricing, requires a contact which the ETF will be you buying out the rest of the contact, if you decide to break it. Also you are going to get way less speed. High ETF for business class internet, is really a deal break imo. Internet company's have to find better ways to offer more bandwidth to customer's, without hog tying them to death. Business class internet shouldn't be the only solution to customer's who need more bandwidth, as business class internet offers many other thing's that many of us could careless about.
Trust me I have overlooked the options of business class internet, and it's simply not good enough on the ISP's part. Which now ISP's want to do the 3 strike rule for going over bandwidth, and killing a customers service for a year if they do it three times. So you really have to ask yourself, who's being fair here? Answer is not the ISP's, as they are forcing you to play by rules that are unfair, plain and simple. |
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