vtechgsx8
join:2001-04-07
Fairfax, VA
| Cox Fairfax: The Worst Cable ISP in the country?
Yes. Heres a nice lil speed test with my packetloss near 20% and average ping to the gateway at 300ms. THIS IS EVERY F-CKING day.
Test running..Downloaded 60900bytes in 12470ms
Seems as slow as a dialup
Upload got ok 1 bytes uploaded
Uploaded 1bytes in 440ms
Upload got ok 1 bytes uploaded
Uploaded 1bytes in 330ms
Upload got ok 1 bytes uploaded
Uploaded 1bytes in 440ms
Upload got ok 50000 bytes uploaded
Uploaded 50000bytes in 4440ms
** Speed 39(down)/97(up) kbps **
About modem speed!
Finish. |
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ntgreat
join:2001-08-24
Springfield, VA | Yeah, they're pretty bad. And their cable tv service sucks too. |
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Anon |  reply to vtechgsx8
I had 45% packet loss last night. |
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hgbarten
join:2001-10-03
Mclean, VA | reply to vtechgsx8
They suck big time in everything including the so called customer service. |
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Anon | reply to vtechgsx8
I definately agree. |
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ntgreat
join:2001-08-24
Springfield, VA | reply to vtechgsx8
No freaking way!!! Two days straight of decent internet service??? Somebody pinch me, I must be dreaming. And on a Friday night too... I really need to do a line quality test... |
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Anon | reply to vtechgsx8
Yours was probably great while mine was down. Just came back up. Crap crap crap crap. |
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ntgreat
join:2001-08-24
Springfield, VA | reply to vtechgsx8
Well, it's not great, but it's better than it has been.
»/quality/nil/565783 |
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ntgreat
join:2001-08-24
Springfield, VA
| reply to vtechgsx8
Okay, this is making me sick. I either have a decent ping in the low 100s WITH time outs every couple of minutes or so (meaning a 30sec - 1min loss of connection or extreme packet loss). OR on the other hand, I have crap speed, over 300 ping, albeit, no time outs. It's so hard to decide!!! I don't get this!! Can't they give me the low pings without the time outs? ARRGH.
*throws up hands in frustration* |
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ntgreat
join:2001-08-24
Springfield, VA | reply to vtechgsx8
yaaaahh, I only need to get up at 7 in the morning to get the speed I paid for. WOO HOO! |
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i87
join:2001-07-15
Fairfax, VA | /_________
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name says it all |
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hgbarten
join:2001-10-03
Mclean, VA | reply to vtechgsx8
man I didn't get a signal at all now for the 32nd day and cox does nothing at all to solve the problem. How many times I called them I stopped counting after the 30th time!!! |
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nickadams
Premium
join:2000-09-16
Linden, VA
|  reply to vtechgsx8
Cox just ran their fiber-optic cable through my Alexandria (Fairfax Cty) neighborhood - they now offer digital cable and RoadRunner. I heard somewhere that Cox was focusing on the upgraded fiber-optic service and not supporting their other customers. Are you, and the others that posted herein, using the upgraded fiber-optic service or their original service? |
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bergmanml
join:2001-04-03
Plymouth, IN | reply to vtechgsx8
"upgraded" fiber optic in my neighborhood this past week.
No appreciable improvement in virtually non-existent "service" |
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ntgreat
join:2001-08-24
Springfield, VA
| reply to vtechgsx8
If they are "focusing" on the digital side of RR (which, from what I hear from here, they really aren't doing), I hate to think what they are doing for us regular copper suckers.
Sigh, $40-50 for a little faster than dial-up speed. Great!! I'm sure that's in my contract somewhere!!
[text was edited by author 2001-11-04 22:51:59] |
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i87
join:2001-07-15
Fairfax, VA
| reply to vtechgsx8
nah they dont actually garuntee any speeds, just as long as you are on................. but you can get credit for the last 10 days if you call them right now and mention extremely slow browsing and losing connection. As if that isnt what was already happening..... but there was a plant problem that they are working on so you can get credit for that |
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elges
join:2001-11-04
Annandale, VA | reply to vtechgsx8
I was down to a crawl all day. Working about 30 to 45% packet loss. |
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ntgreat
join:2001-08-24
Springfield, VA
| reply to vtechgsx8
Holy crap, somethings wrong here. I'm downloading like a champ and it's almost 9:00pm. Errr, did I get switched to another ISP without me knowing?
Sorry to all those who are still having crap speed. But I'm on cloud 9 right about now, hehe. |
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hieyeque6
join:2001-10-10
Herndon, VA
| reply to vtechgsx8
C:\>ping yahoo.com
Pinging yahoo.com [216.115.108.245] with 32 bytes of data:
Request timed out.
Reply from 216.115.108.245: bytes=32 time=208ms TTL=238
Reply from 216.115.108.245: bytes=32 time=195ms TTL=238
Reply from 216.115.108.245: bytes=32 time=182ms TTL=238
Ping statistics for 216.115.108.245:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 3, Lost = 1 (25% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 182ms, Maximum = 208ms, Average = 146ms
I've been staying up untill 7 in the morning just to see these numbers under 100ms. This is in Herndon, at 9:25pm. |
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ntgreat
join:2001-08-24
Springfield, VA | reply to vtechgsx8
Sorry to hear that man. I will post a speed test after I finish downloading all this crap I need to d/l (oh, yeah).
Then we shall see if I am dreaming. |
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