Cox general speed issues

[Kurt Granroth]

Terabytes?  If that's accurate and not an exaggeration, then Cox is 
letting you slide.  Do NOT be surprised if they throw a ToS complaint 
against you at a moment's notice.  According to their published limits, 
you can dl "only" 60 gigabytes/mo.  That's 720 GB a year... so if you 
really are consuming TBs in 1/2 year, then you are far over their limits.

http://www.cox.com/policy/limitations.asp

On 5/25/09 3:09 PM, blake gonterman wrote:
> Hey, what constitutes a "fairly heavy"/"heavy" user with Cox cable?
> I have the highest tier availbable (20mb/sec?) and have managed to dl
> many tb's worth of data in the last 6 months since switching to that
> tier. i haven't been rate-limited yet though...
>
> btw, im in southwest chandler (10 and 202 interloop) area and get an avg
> of 1.2MB/sec in peak times and aroun 2.5 to 3MB/sec off-peak.
> Thanks,
> Gnunixguy
> On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Michael Butash <michael at butash.net
> <mailto:michael at butash.net>> wrote:
>
>       Bob, I'm a fairly heavy user, but they don't throttle in their network
>     (yet).  If you "abuse" the network, or show up in top talker reports per
>     market, they just shut you down.  They're not that smart yet.
>
>       They do have Sandvine boxes in their network (the infamous scourge
>     comcast uses/used for killing p2p), but I've been told their in bypass
>     because of the general consumer backlash against other said isp's.  Cox
>     is still trying to figure out QoS, so it wouldn't surprise me they just
>     have something screwed up.
>
>     -mb