I wrote a quick python script to parse your log and found that there was 
a total of 16 hours, 26 minutes and 12 seconds of logged downtime. I 
noticed your polling appears to be on a per minute basis, so I'm 
guessing we are probably + or - 30 minutes from the actual downtime.

This ends up being 99.26% availability. Looking at it further, it 
appears that approximately half of the down time occured between 12am 
and 6am which could be considered plan outage period. Assuming that is 
the case, that does end up being 99.6% availability excluding planned 
downtime. In addtion, certain periods of time (Sept 10-16) have 
relatively significant connectivity issues (57% of the recorded downtime 
happened during that particular week).

Overall my experience has been similar. There are certain periods that 
are rough but overall, pretty dependable (atleast in my opinion). On the 
plus side, it appears that your connection has been flawless over the 
past month. Perhaps Cox worked out the connectivity issues in your 
particular area? Hopefully from here on out the availability will 
continue to rise (99.9%+? we can dream .. :)

Joe

KevinO wrote:

> I started with Cox in July and had enough problems with their service that I
> started monitoring and logging my network connection.
> 
> See: http://www.kevino.org/cox_status.txt
> 
> I would be on DSL if I had the choice.