OT: Cox slowing torrents?

[Joe]

2Mbit/384kbit?! No thank you! I might as well be paying for their value 
residential line. Unless that's a guaranteed MINIMUM bandwidth or 
something.

I'm paying $60/mo right now and getting 10 times the down speed and 5 
times the up speed. And aside from this one (isolated?) case, I do 
actually see those speeds too. I need to upload speeds to keep the VPN 
connection back to the office nice and smooth, 384kbit just wouldn't cut 
it. I've been really happy with their service so far, it was just really 
annoying that all my torrents dropped off and refused to come back. 
Seems to be running ok now though.

-Joe

Sean Parsons wrote:
> I signed up for a Cox Business account at my home and I don't get any of
> their residential restrictions. I have 2Mb/384Kb backed with an SLA and it
> costs a few dollars more than residential (Approx $60/month), but the
> support is stellar and I can run servers on my dedicated connection. Worth a
> look to see if it helps.
> 
> Sean Parsons
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Stephen
> Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 9:02 AM
> To: Main PLUG discussion list
> Subject: Re: OT: Cox slowing torrents?
> 
> Note, I think cox has rolled a policy to slow down certain traffic
> during peak load/times to prevent a detrimental effect on the network.
> then at off peak times will go back up (or supposed to)
> 
> On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 8:28 AM, Joe <lists at joefleming.net> wrote:
>> I'm on Cox cable for internet and paying for their Premiere package
>> (20MBit down, 2MBit up). Over the past day or so I've seen my torrent
>> uploads go from respectable to abysmal; I'm lucky if I can upload at
>> over 10kB/s now. I've reset both my model and router several times and
>> that hasn't helped at all. Is anyone else seeing this problem too or is
>> it only on my end? Thanks for any feedback.
>>
>> -Joe
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