<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Im impressed you even got one static IP. I keep getting shunted to their business services anytime i talk about a static Ip.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 10:40 AM, Michael Butash <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michael@butash.net" target="_blank">michael@butash.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>Cox support is by far the worst part of
using their service. I have an outage about every 3-4 years due
to the sun baking my coax outside, which is somewhat normal, and
every time I call it has gotten worse and worse. Usually I just
mention something about ICOMS, mocking their horrible/garbage 40
year old green-screen internal crm everyone hates using still, and
they get more friendly/helpful.<br>
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Last time I called a few months ago about getting a second IP, it
took four calls, the first talking to the person there I didn't
think could spell IP, and had about the worst drawl you could
imagine from Deliverance, neither providing help or coherency.
After 3 more calls of less utterly stupid, more helpful, but still
mostly useless, I got a real engineer that clearly told me "no,
you can't get a second IP unless you buy business or our
'ultimate' package". He was the only person that understood what
a "second static ip" was and I had to go about 3 levels up.<br>
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I called a buddy that works there, they shifted all support to the
southeast (their corp is in Atlanta), where apparently the average
iq drops to a quarter of anywhere else. I complained on the site
I was so angry, and actually got a call from corporate where the
guy was very nice, but all but admitted they hire the dregs for
support. Where else do you find people to work for minimum wage?<br>
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Sad considering I remember using, and even went to work for @home
that did the cable side for Cox back in '98 when they actually
hired technically competent people to support a technical
service. Even they got worse at the end hiring anyone with a
pulse before Cox, ATT, and Comcast put forks in them to DIY.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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On 07/17/2015 09:00 AM, Stephen Partington wrote:<br>
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connecting with their customer service. Lots of red tape like
hoops to jump through however.</div>
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