Topic '[ALL] Cox Annual Speed Upgrade' in forum 'Cox HSI' - dslreports.com

Re: [ALL] Cox Annual Speed Upgrade

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 16:47:30 EDT

jincuteguy posted : Why they upgraded those speed to only some areas? but not Socal?

Re: [ALL] Cox Annual Speed Upgrade

Sun, 17 Feb 2013 20:42:05 EDT

skeechan posted : Yes.

Re: [ALL] Cox Annual Speed Upgrade

Sun, 17 Feb 2013 18:14:10 EDT

anon posted : Hey i know this seems a bit silly, but can anyone tell me how to see how many channels i have bonded. I show channels 5,6,7,8 so is that safe to say that i am 8 channels down?

Re: [ALL] Cox Annual Speed Upgrade

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 01:59:25 EDT

smith posted : Do you have a home Wi-Fi network with a dual-band wireless router connected? If so, do you have an iPhone 5 or an iPad 4? If you have those, I'm curious what kind of speeds your getting on the 5 Ghz band (using the SPEEDTEST.NET app).

I'm not able to test my iPhone or iPad with the new Ultimate speeds. Because, Cox in Henderson isn't able to provide Ultimate speeds at my apartment.

I would like to know how fast the download speeds are, on the Apple devices, with the new Ultimate speeds.

Re: [ALL] Cox Annual Speed Upgrade

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 19:01:59 EDT

anon posted : Yes, Cox has upgraded my Ultimate from 55Mbps down / 5Mbps up to 180Mbps down 30Mbps up. VERY happy :D

Re: [ALL] Cox Annual Speed Upgrade

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 17:04:00 EDT

jh20001 posted : 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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Re: [ALL] Cox Annual Speed Upgrade

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 15:46:27 EDT

chrisf8657 posted : 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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Re: [ALL] Cox Annual Speed Upgrade

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 15:34:19 EDT

anon posted : 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.

Re: [ALL] Cox Annual Speed Upgrade

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 11:58:41 EDT

jh20001 posted : 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.

Re: [ALL] Cox Annual Speed Upgrade

Sun, 03 Feb 2013 23:47:28 EDT

jh20001 posted : Crap...double posted. Please delete this one :/

Re: [ALL] Cox Annual Speed Upgrade

Sun, 03 Feb 2013 16:20:51 EDT

Beezel posted : This was my premier speed back in 2011 before they capped power boost. :)

[att=1]

Re: [ALL] Cox Annual Speed Upgrade

Sun, 03 Feb 2013 14:30:09 EDT

EyeInTheSky posted :

said by kirkcarp9:

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.

SB6141

Re: [ALL] Cox Annual Speed Upgrade

Sun, 03 Feb 2013 14:01:47 EDT

kirkcarp9 posted : CISCO DPC3010

Re: [ALL] Cox Annual Speed Upgrade

Sun, 03 Feb 2013 12:59:46 EDT

m8trix posted : what modem do you have

Re: [ALL] Cox Annual Speed Upgrade

Sun, 03 Feb 2013 07:50:35 EDT

kirkcarp9 posted : 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.

Re: [ALL] Cox Annual Speed Upgrade

Sat, 02 Feb 2013 20:16:57 EDT

kv2009 posted :

said by lilstone87:

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.

Very much agreed.

Re: [ALL] Cox Annual Speed Upgrade

Sat, 02 Feb 2013 20:14:19 EDT

lilstone87 posted : 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.

Re: [ALL] Cox Annual Speed Upgrade

Sat, 02 Feb 2013 20:01:56 EDT

jh20001 posted : Yay, let's make service even crappier~! Chances are, they figured out that we figured out that it's a joke. Powerboost is nothing more than a marketing gimmick. Make us feel like we are getting something special when it is nothing but a tease. A slap in the face as they run off with the bill laughing like madmen.

Re: [ALL] Cox Annual Speed Upgrade

Sat, 02 Feb 2013 18:58:58 EDT

hoozdapimp posted : 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.

Re: [ALL] Cox Annual Speed Upgrade

Sat, 02 Feb 2013 18:09:31 EDT

Iceman0803 posted :

said by jh20001:

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.

Cox Phx says the same thing now but doesnt say if the 150Mb speed is with or without power boost.

Re: [ALL] Cox Annual Speed Upgrade

Sat, 02 Feb 2013 17:00:35 EDT

smith posted : The 188 Mbps was with PowerBoost.

Re: [ALL] Cox Annual Speed Upgrade

Sat, 02 Feb 2013 16:43:49 EDT

jh20001 posted : 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.

Re: [ALL] Cox Annual Speed Upgrade

Sat, 02 Feb 2013 16:13:53 EDT

smith posted : Do you have the Premier?

Re: [ALL] Cox Annual Speed Upgrade

Sat, 02 Feb 2013 15:16:03 EDT

No_Strings posted : 8x2 here in the foothills. Don't know if we got a speed bump but we did go from 3 channels down and one up to 8 & 2 several months ago.

edit: No change in the Preferred speeds. TestMy says 18/3, Cox test says 22/14. Either way, it's still faster than I can type and faster than many servers.

Re: [ALL] Cox Annual Speed Upgrade

Sat, 02 Feb 2013 13:20:43 EDT

skeechan posted : Holy crap...come on Orange County...

We're still on 4x1 so we are a long way off from getting an upgrade.

Re: [ALL] Cox Annual Speed Upgrade

Sat, 02 Feb 2013 11:33:31 EDT

kenaconlon posted : Ultimate

Re: [ALL] Cox Annual Speed Upgrade

Sat, 02 Feb 2013 04:28:40 EDT

orion44 posted : 300 KB/s to 1.5 MB/s upload speed after the increase - works for me. :D

Re: [ALL] Cox Annual Speed Upgrade

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 19:05:04 EDT

anon posted : [att=1]

Re: [ALL] Cox Annual Speed Upgrade

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 07:28:10 EDT

jayde posted : So it looks like this has started to roll out. Are representatives allowed to talk about the speed increases everywhere now? I'd like to know if Nebraska is going to see any increase from this :p

Re: [ALL] Cox Annual Speed Upgrade

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 21:17:45 EDT

Kissler posted : That would explain only being able to get 43d 20u.

Re: [ALL] Cox Annual Speed Upgrade

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 19:30:11 EDT

smith posted : I called Cox at noon. They're sending someone over in the morning to fix the problem. My Ultimate speeds never went up. He said most of the problems they're having today are with the people that have the Ultimate Internet. It sounds like Cox wasn't ready to increase the Ultimate speeds.

Re: [ALL] Cox Annual Speed Upgrade

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 18:56:46 EDT

bryant313 posted : if you call cox and go to the tech support section and choose internet you will hear a prerecorded message that talks about speed issues valley wide

so it should be fixed shortly

Re: [ALL] Cox Annual Speed Upgrade

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 18:44:34 EDT

jh20001 posted : This is proof that Cox is full of crap. I forgot to post this earlier. This is a run I did on speedtest.net back in 2011 at my old place. Cox didn't have as much "cap" control on it's "boost" so boost would shoot it up to 98mbps and after about 20 seconds or so come crashing down to 20. Now *THAT*....was boost. 20-98...now we get 50-60. Should be 50-150 with boost now :/

[att=1]

Let's go picket in front of their corp office

Edit: I just did another speedtest and it showed 3.29mbps for upstream...compared to this morning that showed 19mbps. I did it again and my downstream crashed from 50 to 19mbps and upstream is 1.66mbps.....you have to be kidding.

Re: [ALL] Cox Annual Speed Upgrade

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 18:37:25 EDT

Kissler posted : I called today to change some services around, and they told me that effective midnight tonight, (Las Vegas) will be getting (at ultimate tier) 100mbps. Right now, I'm clocking in at 44.8D 21.4U. Can't wait!

Re: [ALL] Cox Annual Speed Upgrade

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 12:26:30 EDT

lilstone87 posted :

said by Azlen:

I don't know what they're doing if you exceed the cap but I'm hoping we see an increase shortly. It's ridiculous to triple the speeds on ultimate and leave the cap at 400Gb. I would think a lot more people are going to exceed that now.

I have yet to go over my cap, but I have said it on here before. If I ever do go over and cox starts being an ass about it. I will let them know how i feel about the matter. I fully understand enforcing the caps when a customer starts affecting other's in there area. But to just harass a customer for going over the cap limit, is just unacceptable to me from any company.

Re: [ALL] Cox Annual Speed Upgrade

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 12:22:26 EDT

Azlen posted : I don't know what they're doing if you exceed the cap but I'm hoping we see an increase shortly. It's ridiculous to triple the speeds on ultimate and leave the cap at 400Gb. I would think a lot more people are going to exceed that now.

Re: [ALL] Cox Annual Speed Upgrade

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 11:55:46 EDT

lilstone87 posted :

said by hoozdapimp:

No speed increase in SoCal either :/

Well as you, and anyone else who use these forum's often should know. Cox doesn't do upgrade's to there entire coverage area at the same time. It's done market by market. As my market did recent ultimate speed upgrades back in november to 100/20, and my market wasn't even the first to see these ultimate upgrades. So I am sure upgrades will spread to more market's including yours, but for an actual time frame, no one knows that till word of changes leak.

Re: [ALL] Cox Annual Speed Upgrade

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 11:34:18 EDT

hoozdapimp posted : No speed increase in SoCal either :/

Re: [ALL] Cox Annual Speed Upgrade

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 09:11:30 EDT

jh20001 posted : [att=1]

That's finally a little better. Now as long as the upstream speeds hold at 19-20 I'll be happy, but I know that's just with boost, so in the end it's fake.

At least uploading the videos we shoot to Vimeo/YouTube won't be such a headache. Then again, once the "boost" ends it will be back to being a headache and I looking/hoping for an alternative to Cox.

I like the other gentleman's focus on: »www.techdirt.com/articles/201301···on.shtml

Re: [ALL] Cox Annual Speed Upgrade

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 08:22:31 EDT

bchandler02 posted : No speed increase in OKC this morning. Still seeing 32 down, 7 up on speedtest. I am on premier. Website for Oklahoma still shows the old speeds too.

Re: [ALL] Cox Annual Speed Upgrade

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 15:11:22 EDT

jh20001 posted : You all make me feel young :)
I started with a 386 intel system and didn't even get internet until AOL around the age of....14 and whatever modem was out back then (I believe the step down from 56k). That was only....16 years ago.

I stepped out of the IRC world fully around a year ago, given it had been a few years before that since I really did anything more than share a few words a week. It just died out and became boring towards the end. Met some crazy people over the years though that originated in IRC.

Re: [ALL] Cox Annual Speed Upgrade

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 14:23:50 EDT

jsimmons posted : I fondly remember the time spent on Compuserv using my TI Silent 700 portable terminal (300 baud acoustic couplers) with yards of thermal-roll paper streaming across the floor behind my desk. It was so much better than the days of punching Hollerith cards.

gees I'm old. :(
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Re: [ALL] Cox Annual Speed Upgrade

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 13:42:51 EDT

EyeInTheSky posted : I had the exact same setup.

First time I bought something "on-line" was on Prodigy. Sears had put their catalog on Prodigy, so I pre-ordered the TurboGrafx Express handheld.

Re: [ALL] Cox Annual Speed Upgrade

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 13:23:01 EDT

chrisf8657 posted : Heh I remember when I was young connecting to Prodigy under DOS using a 2400bps modem and a 386/25Mhz w/ 4MB of RAM.

Good god how slow it redrawed stuff, but it was still fun for those days. :)
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Re: [ALL] Cox Annual Speed Upgrade

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 13:21:43 EDT

bbz_Ghost posted : I think I've got you all beat... ;)

I started being "online" around 1977 or so using what was the Dow Jones News and Information Retrieval Service (what a mouthful that was) at a lowly pithy "oh god I can type 10x faster than this" 50 baud - it was so slow that more often than not my typing would cause a buffer overflow since the machine I was on just couldn't handle more than about 16 characters a second.

I finally did get a 300 baud modem in either late 1978 or early 1979, damned thing cost me like $1300 (a whole summer of grass cutting/yardwork savings) and my Dad thought I was freakin' insane for doing it but, as an electrical engineer himself, he understood (even in the 1970s) where technology was headed and he never put the brakes on my learning, thankfully.

Around the time the Commodore 64 appeared (I never owned a VIC-20, actually) I got one and the original C64 300 baud modem for it and was using VIDTEX and was delighted to make a pretty wicked discovery in early 1983: there were some PEEK and POKE commands you could use (mainly POKE to change registers) that one could issue that "overclocked" the 300 baud modem - I'm not joking, I'm totally serious here - to a whopping 450 baud which was a full 50% increase in speed in both directions, and it actually worked surprisingly well.

And the biggest benefit? In those days you paid by the minute to be connected: 300 baud connections were $.10 a minute ($6 an hour) and if you were extremely wealthy and had a 1200 baud modem (I thought my 300 baud from 1979 was expensive, geez, the 1200's were selling for nearly $2500 from USRobotics and Hayes), so it was rather awesome to discover that CompuServe's modems that I was dialing into were picking me up at the faster 450 baud speed but they were recognizing me as 300 baud... :)

And as tough as it might be to believe, that 50% "speed boost" actually was incredibly noticeable: instead of a line of text appearing onscreen as the cursor moved across letter by letter, the entire line would just sort of "blink" into view, full lines at a time. I was the only person in the US - for some period of time - accessing CompuServe at 450 baud, I even verified my connection speed with one of their original SysOps that I was friends with and he was amazed that the "overclocking" thing actually worked.

Oh those were the fun times, most "kids" nowadays have no idea just how far we've come and they take all this for granted, sadly. Had a Tandy Model 100 and the acoustic coupler modem for a long time as well, I kinda miss that thing... ;) Did the Amiga thing as well, best personal computers ever made even to this day (and still the only true hardware-based multitasking PCs). Never got into Apple hardware, however, and I still don't.

My original CompuServe ID was 70010,410 - I was one of the original first 500 members when the service went live so long ago.

Anyway... sorry about the trip down Memory Lane but all the talk of baud rates just got me all nostalgic. :D

I'm using Preferred nowadays here in Vegas so a speed bump would be nice but, I'm not holding out for miracles, especially since they're going to bump the prices again. Was just reading this:

»www.techdirt.com/articles/201301···on.shtml

and wondering just how much the prices will continue to rise...

Re: [ALL] Cox Annual Speed Upgrade

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 09:47:57 EDT

CoxVegas posted :

said by Beezel:

I remember running a 300 baud on CompuServe. they charged more if you ran 1200. ;) Oh I miss my old Tandy...

And their 2400 baud rates were total extortion.... Remember my 300 baud modem on my Atari 800XL though... :) For the 2400, I had an Amiga 500, and a floppy from AmigaWorld (I think) with a list of BBSes, and that started me off... went from that to running a BBS on FidoNet and AmigaNet, to running an IRC server on the Amiga IRC network, to, well, now... :)

Re: [ALL] Cox Annual Speed Upgrade

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 02:28:15 EDT

ajwees41 posted : it should have been 8 down before if you had a good enough signal Omaha added upstream bonding during the outage and my SB modem lists the channels

1 Locked QAM256 56 855000000 Hz
2 Locked QAM256 53 837000000 Hz
3 Locked QAM256 54 843000000 Hz
4 Locked QAM256 55 849000000 Hz
5 Locked QAM256 57 861000000 Hz
6 Locked QAM256 58 867000000 Hz
7 Locked QAM256 59 873000000 Hz
8 Locked QAM256 60 879000000 Hz

Upstream Bonded Channels
Channel Lock Status US Channel Type Channel ID Symbol Rate Frequency Power
1 Locked TDMA and ATDMA 3 2560 Ksym/sec 28500000 Hz
2 Locked TDMA and ATDMA 2 2560 Ksym/sec 25200000 Hz
3 Locked TDMA and ATDMA 4 2560 Ksym/sec 31800000 Hz
4 Locked TDMA and ATDMA 5 2560 Ksym/sec 35100000 Hz

Re: [ALL] Cox Annual Speed Upgrade

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 01:29:38 EDT

smith posted : You should upgrade to the 8x4. I upgraded from the SB6121 to the SB6141. Cox in Las Vegas utilizes 8 channels downstream and 2 channels upstream.

Re: [ALL] Cox Annual Speed Upgrade

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 20:55:20 EDT

skeechan posted : I still have my 16K CoCo.