I live around Tatum & Union Hills (moved here last Sept) and despite
the horror stories I heard about COX throughout the years, sprung
for a cable modem. I have been 100% satisfied with the service here.

The guy came out, ran a cable up to my office, and then left.
I plugged in my OpenBSD box, and have had the same IP since
last september.

I had a IPSEc tunnel to my previous employer with no problems at all,
and I run some demo stuff off my home web server (just forwArded port 8080
on the OpenBSD box to my apache Linux box) with no problems at all.
I even have mail sent to my home box on p25 with no problems.

So, in my humble opinion, it has nothing to do with valley location or
whether it is COX or not; I think it has to do with alignment
of pluto and mars on any given day.

Of course, I did fail to mention that the cable for TV sucks. Snow, snow
everywhere except 1 or two channels. However, as long as the data service
remains the same, I'm not complaining :-)


v/r
Mike


On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 05:22:11PM -0700, Jeffrey Pyne wrote:
 I think the thing with Cox is that it really depends on what area of the
 Valley you're in.  I'm near downtown Phoenix, and my next door neighbor and
 I LOVE our Cox connections.  I get some crazy download speeds.  I was
 downloading some Yonder Mountain String Band SHNs from an FTP server a while
 ago and was getting about 380KB/sec.  :)  A friend who lives near 20th St.
 and Osborn gets the same kind of speeds.  But at the same time, I used to
 work with a guy who lives near Tatum and Bell and he said that in the
 evening, his Cox connection is as slow as dialup.  As far as the port
 blockage, I've managed to mostly work around that where I need to.  (I might
 be more annoyed about that if the price wasn't so right.)  The conversion
 from Excite/@Home was a little annoying, but not TOO bad, considering.  As
 for stability, I've had two outages in the past 3+ years.  All in all, I
 have been VERY happy with Cox since I have been with them.  Your mileage may
 vary, though.
 
 2 cents,
 ~Jeff
 
 On Monday, July 29, 2002 5:10 PM, John Olson wrote:
 
 > The more I hear about cox, the more I'm glad to suffer with 
 > my sporadic
 > SprintBBD service (DSL not available).  For one thing, Cox blocks a
 > plethora of ports including 25 and 110 (The list on their site
 > somewhere, you really have to hunt for it).  
 > FWIW, Mesa has two cable systems, Cox and cableAmerica.  I 
 > have a friend
 > on CableAmerica's cable service and he's happy.  He's doing 
 > average user
 > stuff, but has a static IP, a cheap router behind his modem serving a
 > few Windows boxes, and does VPN to his employer with no problems.
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