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reply to skeechan

Re: [ALL] Cox Annual Speed Upgrade

reply to orion44
Do you have the Premier?

reply to bryant313
Hah, Cox's website for vegas/internet said for premier the other day...63mbps. Looking at it now, it now read 50mbps. Ultimate read before 188 and now reads 150. They really need to get their words straight.

The 188 Mbps was with PowerBoost.

reply to jh20001

I think they're removing their powerboost stats from the website. Whether that means they're getting rid of it or not is still a question, but it disappeared from San Diego's website as well.

reply to hoozdapimp

Re: [ALL] Cox Annual Speed Upgrade

Well it is the year 2013 now, and advertising powerboost as a feature is/need's to be a thing of the past. As speed's are getting a lot faster, and only going up. We are no longer in the age of the dinosaurs, at least not where cox's offers it service's. Plain and simple, Cable isp's like Cox, and comcast etc... Need to stop using this word, and the so called feature behind it.

reply to kenaconlon
Could you tell me the modem model and router model you're using to get 182Mb/s? I can't get over 120Mb/s on Ultimate and tech wasn't able to determine the reason yesterday.

what modem do you have

CISCO DPC3010

reply to kirkcarp9

reply to skeechan
This was my premier speed back in 2011 before they capped power boost.

Crap...double posted. Please delete this one :/

reply to bryant313
Well, we can pretty much all agreed that back in 2011 we were all getting much faster speeds due to "boost" than we are today with the new upgrades (+ boost). For premier, with boost, we are all getting around 60 something mbps with and avg speed drop down to about 40. Going back to 2011, we boosted as far as 90-140mbps...given we dropped to 20 after boost. So two years ago we had better bursts than we have today as it's only been capped since then, showing how well they specialize at taking a lot and giving back just a little and calling it an upgrade. I feel like they are assume the general public have the brain power of a small child.

Because of this, starting this year I have been lobbying companies to increase their interest in expanding to the Las Vegas community to offer faster service at a better price. I've been getting mixed results, but within those mixed exist major companies with a lot of features who do show interest in competing. So we need more people to rise up and write, call and email these companies (first researching online the proper names to contact to avoid the chain of communication chaos) so that they know Vegas welcomes the idea of a fair competitive system.

I'm on the ultimate $75/month for 6 months deal and so far the only thing that has been able to max out the 150mb speed is downloading from a newsgroup. Most sites can't/won't serve faster than 6-7MB. I don't really need the upload and will probably go back to premier when my trial is up.

reply to bryant313
I think we're starting to see that the end users connection speed is faster than what the sites and the Internet in general can handle.

So, any speed increases forward from this point probably won't help..we've kinda met the threshold of diminishing returns.
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Not *so* true. Some servers, yes are horribly throttled for the same reasons ISPs do it (profit). However, anyone running off a fancy backbone (like most major corporations....Microsoft for one) can serve your information as fast as they want. I have picked up some wonderful speeds from MS, Amazon-hosted projects and the sort (some much higher than what we have today). I have one server I maintain for a mid-size company that is throttled at 25mbit/s per unique connection. There is plenty of room to increase that if needed but for the content in which the server is providing customers, it isn't necessary. If a company with control over such has any lower it's only a balance between total available bandwidth and how much traffic it can handle before it bottlenecks and causes problems.

There are a LOT of websites hosted with companies like Hostgator and BlueHost, and although their speed and features are great, they don't allow you to host sites that consume a LOT of bandwidth (ie major media-based sites, social networks and the sort). They do that by throttling your bandwidth to around 3-9mbps per unique visitor. For them though it's the cost vs benefits that win (they are much much more affordable than hosts that do provide what it needs for such).

Plus, the speed increase is for many many a reasons. Your connection isn't built upon the idea that you are using to it connect to "one" website at a time. My entire house is connected....from sensory to cameras to therms to tvs to bluray players to receivers to tablet to pcs to laptops to phones to video communication devices to gaming systems to to to to to to to to to to. So although one website doesn't give you much a benefit, the ability to connect everything you know to the internet...is. Soon we will have glasses and watches that interact with our networks and online. Hell, my smoke detectors are connected

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