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reply to nickphx

Re: Cox "Secure" Backup, not Secure.

And how would they do this without determining what traffic your sending and where your sending it? I would rather have a smaller "dumb" bandwidth pipe then one that is managed in such a way. Whats next, have HBO GO not count while Netflix does? Slippery slope.

You think they don't already know or monitor protocol and destination of traffic?

Of-course they do, they just don't give priority to any specific traffic other then to manage it's efficiency. Maybe to a degree with their VOIP traffic, but since I don't use VOIP I don't have a problem with that. If they start giving special privileges to the data on their network based on personal interests...well that leads to a ugly future.

My opinion? Build a NAS, do your daily backups to that and then do less frequent backups(when you caps allow) from the NAS to a cloud of your choice. Conserves bandwidth vs your cap, full control of client/server, faster, and not dependent on a ISP. Also you can set up your NAS in RAID so you can get reduncy as well as backup.

I have 400 a month data cap, which I hardly touch, I really want to be able to use this service because we have unlimited data on the backup which is nice. I have some important things but my NAS server in house backs them up. It's almost 2 TB's worth of stuff.

-Rob

My point is you can control what your backing up and slowly do it over the months from NAS to cloud. Say a few days before the end of the month when the Caps reset you have 200MB left, back up 200MB then wait until next month. You can also backup a little more then 200 maybe and see if you get a notice. I have found the restrictions are tighter or looser based on how population dense your area is. Once everything is on the Cox server bandwidth will be minimal because your just saving changes.