I said this on-list a bit ago (if not my advice, glad you found it), as 
they've been under migration of spectrum.

Without getting too geeky, as they remove old services (like analog 
video) and move things around to align better, they are making use of 
more channels, where more channels == more bandwidth (btw, same as 
wireless using channel-bonding).  Today is 4 down I think for 3.0 @ 
38mbps/channel, but they're going 24-channel's down on the new 3.1 cards 
that are getting to to those theoretical gigabit speeds tomorrow.  Fios, 
meh.  It's coming down to who has better peering to the rest of the 
internet.

For instance, interestingly enough, apparently Cox made the news a few 
weeks ago when they tried to migrate to local peering vs. out LA or 
Dallas for regional peering, and saturated connectivity with not enough 
bandwidth (only 80gb, cheap bastards) to most anything that didn't 
already have local peering with them established  (ie. google and other 
paying preferred friends).  Net neutrality hard at work, we'll see if 
they get it right next time.

At least they're feeding your beast, or rather thirst for bandwidth.

-mb


On 12/04/2014 03:22 PM, Brian Cluff wrote:
> 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
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