In some places they even have fiber to the prem. (me) On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 12:02 PM Michael Butash wrote: > You need to make sure your modem supports 3.1 too, don't forget that. > > Cox has just recently finished upgrading to all the new 3.1 hardware here, > and phoenix tends to be their technology leader market due to being their > biggest, so I'd be surprised if comcast has done more rural areas. They > always seem to be the first to fight any sort of rural network legislation > as they hate wasting their capital on non-rich areas, so make sure they can > even support the 8-24 channels down needed for those speeds. You'd be > amazed how screwed up cable plants can be in rural/old areas that in some > cases, they just cannot support the rates. Tempe was like this for a long > while here due to the original podunk cable co that built it. > > Cox is actually one of the better cable MSO's out there sadly. My first > job in tech in '99 was @home networks that pioneered cable modem tech, and > taught the cable behemoths about that little internet thing, and dealing > with them all from comcast, cox, intermedia, att, and others, cox was > always one of the least crappy of them. So much I even worked for them > after for a bit (more crappy to work for imho). Not perfect, but > definitely better. If you like to pirate media, oddly they were one of the > strongest to reject lawsuits, abuse subpoenas, and other media cartel > incursions on human rights, where comcast (being the ultimate media whore > thanks to corrupt/owned fcc) is the opposite... > > That said, I've been having more frequent outages (including 2 yesterday) > with Cox, and they're steadily warning and charging me for bandwidth now, > so I'm having Centurylink installed to check out that is almost double the > speed and $25 less than my cox bill now. As much as I hate Centurylink, > they don't have the bandwidth caps, that started with Comcast > coincidentally, and Cox can stick it now (pun intended) that they impose > them too if I'm just going to go over monthly. Joy of having both services > at least temporarily is I can steer traffic out either/both with my > Fortigate firewall with sd-wan features, so going to play a month or two > before I can one or the other to see... > > -mb > > On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 10:01 PM, Jim wrote: > >> I found out Tuesday what was causing me to not get the speed I was told I >> should get. Once again the Comcast guy I was talking to said he wanted to >> send out a repairman to find out why I wasn't getting the 150 Mbps >> everything told him I should be getting. Tuesday morning the repairman >> showed up with his supervisor. The supervisor told me the 150 Mbps speed >> is for customers in areas that are served with a docsis 3.1 network, but >> where I live is served by a docsis 3.1 network. Because of this I get 100 >> Mbps, but could get 150 if I wanted to pay more. Then he said the network >> in this area isn't able to supply everyone with 150 Mbps, and no he doesn't >> know when this area will be upgraded. I was amazed that all the corporate >> people I talked to didn't know that this was the case. They all said I >> should be getting 150. >> >> After the repairman and his boss left, I called and emailed the corporate >> people who had been telling me I should be getting 150 and told them what >> the local supervisor said. Later one of them called back and agreed with >> me that since I had been told I should be getting 150, that he would give >> it to me for the price I'm paying now. >> >> >> Is Cox as fscked up as Comcast? >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen