?: Cox vs QWEST

[Craig White]

On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 16:12 -0700, Mark Jarvis wrote:
> I currently have TV & internet via Cox and phone via QWEST.  Current 
> situation:
> 
> 1) There are cost advantages to getting all services from the same supplier.
> 
> 2) I regularly see download speeds of 350+ to 700* KBytes/sec. (usually 
> depending on the host site's speed) on Cox.
> 
> 3) QWEST promises download speed of 1+ MByte/sec. (This doesn't sound 
> correct to me--I thought that DSL was slower, but . . .)
> 
> 4) While 500+ is NICE when grabbing a new ISO, it's not absolutely 
> essential.
> 
> 5) I currently have two boxen connected to a Linksys router which 
> connects to a (non-cox provided) Toshiba DOCSIS cable "modem".
> 
> 6) Location is N. Central Phx. (South of Northern).
> 
> Any pertinent comments, suggestions, personal experiences, etc. would be 
> appreciated.
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I don't live all that far from you and my 'second' dad lives right off
central at Frier - the phone lines near his house seem to be noisy and
sometimes cause problems as there are many bundles of damaged wires
there.

Cox is faster, Qwest is probably a bit more reliable. You can use
bittorrent to get faster downloads of iso files.

Cox doesn't stomps many ports on dhcp/residential clients like
25/80/137-139 etc. while Qwest will pretty much let you do anything you
want with the bandwidth.

No clear cut winners as I see it. (I'm on Cox - it ain't necessarily
cheaper)

Craig