| [LA] Cox LA Network Upgrades Soon? I was surprised to see that no one has mention the Cox HSI upgrades that are now live in Baton Rouge. Premier went from 35 to 60, while Ultimate went from 60 to 185. I have also heard that these upgrades are headed to the New Orleans market as well. Since I live in New Orleans this matters most to me, and I want to make sure I'm ready when they arrive.
Any Cox tech care to give a timeline on the network upgrades reaching New Orleans? Also I hear that to take advantage of the new Ultimate speeds that the customer will need to have an 8 channel bonding capable Docsis 3.0 modem (like the Cisco Model DPC3010).
Thanks in advance! |
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zac2003
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Oklahoma City, OK | I wish they would announce the Oklahoma upgrades as well.... |
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| reply to WASD John
I just read about the new speeds in Baton Rouge as well, hoping to see these in New Orleans soon.
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zac2003, That would be nice. Online sales did tell me all markets are suppose to receive the upgrades soon. They suggested contacting the local customer service to see if they had a better timeline, but I haven't gotten around to doing that. Interested in those Ultimate speeds after it happens. |
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 kv2009
join:2009-09-14
Kenner, LA | reply to WASD John
If Baton Rouge received the speed upgrade, then New Orleans and it's surrounding areas aren't too far behind, probably just a couple months.
I remember months ago, upstream channel bonding *was* enabled here, just outside of New Orleans. Cox turned it off after a few weeks though. So I'm sure the hardware is in place...I can't wait for the new speeds though.  10Mbps upload sounds pretty nice! |
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| reply to zac2003
Same here.. waiting for it in OKC/Moore area! |
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| Still have not heard anyone seeing an upgrade in CA either. |
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| reply to WASD John
I'm from the Iberia Parish area, This is my speed test as of today:
I tried a test download of an ubuntu iso. The speed seems to bounce between 24Mbps down to 5Mbps and yo-yos in between. Its been hard trying to find a consistently fast server to test against without speed boost getting in the way.
For what its worth I have one of those VoIP Arris dust collectors. |
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| said by mr_anon_name :I'm from the Iberia Parish area, This is my speed test as of today:
I tried a test download of an ubuntu iso. The speed seems to bounce between 24Mbps down to 5Mbps and yo-yos in between. Its been hard trying to find a consistently fast server to test against without speed boost getting in the way.
For what its worth I have one of those VoIP Arris dust collectors.
Really you aren't going to see much more than that with most websites. You'll mainly only see those speeds with bulk download services, e.g. steam, heavily seeded torrents, usenet, and the like.
Most web services don't have the bandwidth to go around offering every single person 50Mbit transfer rates, so they throttle it. If they didn't, at that speed you'll bring a T3 or an OC-1 to its knees. Three of you will bring DS4 or an OC-3 to its knees.
Where I worked last summer, we ran a mini datacenter with only a 50mbit pipe. |
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Four times the upload speed for Premier would be awesome. So much of what the typical user does is upstream-intensive. Even something as simple as FaceTime eats upstream bandwidth. Uploading photos or videos is also something that everyone does now. |
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Rob_Premium
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Mary Esther, FL | The gulfcoast seems to be left out, too..
-Rob |
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said by SlashG42:Four times the upload speed for Premier would be awesome. So much of what the typical user does is upstream-intensive. Even something as simple as FaceTime eats upstream bandwidth. Uploading photos or videos is also something that everyone does now.
I don't think copper will ever suit that purpose well in any economical fashion. It's either fiber or bust if you want high upstream. |
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AMAZING!
This is my new speed on Premier in Lafayette:
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| Nice to see preferred got a little lovin' too. Averaging around 32up/21down on a DPQ3212 in BR.
Can't really see Cox moving away from copper anytime soon, it'd be nice to have fiber. Sucks we didn't get Google Fiber. |
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said by Rakeesh:said by SlashG42:Four times the upload speed for Premier would be awesome. So much of what the typical user does is upstream-intensive. Even something as simple as FaceTime eats upstream bandwidth. Uploading photos or videos is also something that everyone does now.
I don't think copper will ever suit that purpose well in any economical fashion. It's either fiber or bust if you want high upstream. Too bad you didn't read my post before trying to correct me.
Current Premier is 2.5mbps. New Premier is 10mbps. That is in fact four times the upload speed.
Please don't spread the FUD. |
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kv2009
join:2009-09-14
Kenner, LA | reply to Rakeesh
said by Rakeesh:said by SlashG42:Four times the upload speed for Premier would be awesome. So much of what the typical user does is upstream-intensive. Even something as simple as FaceTime eats upstream bandwidth. Uploading photos or videos is also something that everyone does now.
I don't think copper will ever suit that purpose well in any economical fashion. It's either fiber or bust if you want high upstream. Not really...not with channel bonding. Bonding multiple upstream channels can provide a massive amount of bandwidth. Yes, fiber is amazing, but four upstream channels at 64QAM can yield upwards of 80Mbps of upstream line capacity, uncapped. Even bonding four channels at 16QAM will yield you a ton of speed, upwards of around 30Mbps or so, uncapped. Of course you more than likely won't see these kinds of uncapped speeds, but it's theoretically possible.
Now, imagine bonding eight upstream channels - that is a massive amount of speed for a cable connection. |
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| said by kv2009:said by Rakeesh:said by SlashG42:Four times the upload speed for Premier would be awesome. So much of what the typical user does is upstream-intensive. Even something as simple as FaceTime eats upstream bandwidth. Uploading photos or videos is also something that everyone does now.
I don't think copper will ever suit that purpose well in any economical fashion. It's either fiber or bust if you want high upstream. Not really...not with channel bonding. Bonding multiple upstream channels can provide a massive amount of bandwidth. Yes, fiber is amazing, but four upstream channels at 64QAM can yield upwards of 80Mbps of upstream line capacity, uncapped. Even bonding four channels at 16QAM will yield you a ton of speed, upwards of around 30Mbps or so, uncapped. Of course you more than likely won't see these kinds of uncapped speeds, but it's theoretically possible. Now, imagine bonding eight upstream channels - that is a massive amount of speed for a cable connection. Well unless Cable ISP's can find/manage ways to reduce noise on the upstream, to be able to use higher QAM's to provide more bandwidth. They are still holding them self's back a lot, and will push them to a FTTH system a lot sooner then they would like. Because currently with the D3 system in place, the ISP's are stuck at a max of 5 upstream channel's, and the lowest of the upstream frequency's are just a headache to manage noise wise.
Reason why there is still the need for 16QAM on the upstream, as the current system's are to noisy, and they don't have no solution as of yet to this issue. I am not exactly up to the point with docsis 3.1, but I do think they have the option to open more space for the upstream. Which is gonna be the next key thing for cable network's, as far as more bandwidth capacity is concerned for the future. |
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What's the maximum number of bonded channels that Cox is using in Louisiana right now?
I'm in New Orleans and I have Motorola 6120. It looks like I have four downstream channels and three upstream. My modem started bonding upstream about a week or two ago.
This is what my signal page looks like. |
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kv2009
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Kenner, LA | said by capteeou:What's the maximum number of bonded channels that Cox is using in Louisiana right now?
I'm in New Orleans and I have Motorola 6120. It looks like I have four downstream channels and three upstream. My modem started bonding upstream about a week or two ago.
This is what my signal page looks like.
I know when upstream bonding was enabled here, I was bonding 4 16QAM channels @ 2.56 Msym/sec. But your upstream frequencies are different than mine - as are your downstream frequencies. So chances are that you might only have three for now. |
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| When they were upstream bonding in 70006 and 70002, it was 2 channels first for a couple days. 70006 was 3 channels for maybe 2 days. Both were eventually 4 channels. They switched upstream bonding off in Metairie almost a year ago I think?
Was getting 20-30MBits/s upstream for a week or so.
I think it was 16QAM / 2.56MSym/sec. |
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