The local phone company, whatever name they are calling themselves these days, rolled out their fiber service in my older neighborhood (alma school and warner area in chandler). I used to have a horrible time with cox much as you describe but then I realized that I was still running a DOCSIS 2 cable modem and immediately upgraded to an 8 up 4 down DOCSIS 3 modem and I haven't had a single problem since. My download speed is now ridiculously fast and consistent and my VOIP home phone service has never even had so much as a blip even with downloading server torrents at once. Uplink speeds seem to be mostly limited by the destination and regularly hit 1 to 2 or more Megabytes per second. Brian Cluff On 12/04/2014 01:34 PM, Todd Millecam wrote: > On 2014-12-04 12:06, Stephen Partington wrote: > > the google fiber rollout this is changing alot right now as Cox is > getting ready to announce gigabit speeds > https://fiber.google.com/__newcities/ > > > > I've worked with Cox as an ISP in the past, I won't work with them again > if I can avoid it. I do enough sys admin stuff and prefer to use a VOIP > setup at my house so uplink speed is as important to me as downlink and > Cox's packet shaping and uplink throttling gave me more headaches than > vascular dilation. > > -- > Todd Millecam > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss