I had consumer Cox for maybe 8 years. I would occasionally experience some downtime. I moved to Cox Business maybe 4 years ago. Less down time. I work out of my house so the network did not changes, or maybe the immediate network did not change. I am able to run a server, which I do not... but did for a short time... Long Story.... Speed is ok. Occasionally things will slow. Who knows why? I cannot tell you if there is any downtime in the middle of the night. Maybe I'll move back to consumer. On 2016-07-03 18:50, Nathan England wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > What got me even considering this is that at my house, with 150mb > service and a few devices streaming and playing games my general > download speeds and browsing speeds become noticeably bad despite my > speedtests continuously showing awesome speeds. > > But at my office, with 50 or so other people using the same Cox > dedicated business account with 100mb speeds, it is consistently faster > than my house. And at the office most people are streaming music and or > netflix while surfing the web, despite all of that traffic speedtests > and general surfing speed is noticeably faster. > > My assumption was the dedicated 100mb vs my shared 150mb and I thought > maybe a dedicated 25mb would be cool, plus a bonus of ports I want. > > But you are saying there is not difference in the network makes me > really suspicious. What else could be different? > > > > > > On 2016-07-03 12:32, Michael Butash wrote: >> Residential and Business *are* the same infrastructure when it comes >> to Cox HFC. The only thing that differentiates a business customer >> from residential is the boot file pushed to the modem at boot, the >> speed set up/down, and ip/port access list allowed through. Of course >> your bill too, nice little racket they have going to sell perceived >> value as *business* service is somehow really better... >> >> I wouldn't plan on google coming to you unless you're moving to some >> swank new subburb of ticky tacky little boxes, but cox can provide >> enough bandwidth over hfc you shouldn't care. Thus why they reclaimed >> more of their OTA (over coax rather) spectrum of free/unencrypted >> channels so they can resell it for data services bonding up to 32 >> channels @ ~42mbit ea or 1.4gbit max. >> >> Best thing about fiber is that glass (in theory) is less prone to >> dysfunction than copper @ 140 degree surface ground temps. Less >> having to have the provider re-terminate your copper every few years >> here... >> >> -mb >> >> >> On 07/02/2016 01:52 PM, Todd Cole wrote: >>> I stuck with Residential for the speed, down time seems to be the >>> same as business accounts tho business do get 24/7 service calls and >>> support. a little port work and dns hop was easy to do. And I do >>> prefer Cox vs CL but >>> Google could be the future---maybe >>> Todd >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> 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 > > - -- > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Nathan England > Web Developer > LAMP Administration > Information Security > nathan@nmecs.com > (480) 559-9681 > https://www.nmecs.com > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1 > > iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJXecDkAAoJEOuk7+DwYjzgMOwH/jjiA3CLqMHKacITEDNtxbMv > X5yX8TJVkUmuzbqHP5QHgriRgbQzBid4RPW7d5n3WT86Y4U1TsPmpaOL0pVo9tZY > nxX7AZoYDDROxHbmQLdKPsAnFJzVXzkxqx4abT265V2s0MErHMDILEdexvwDYid3 > b2+m4xIWryAQvOoNdin2rhj0PN13JZcCldTlZPsbVKoR14xNBwaazCJRLS0VQHAY > lEocjrnDbQPufSPJMjh7CTPiD7Zdtjxa3voafe2g0LXFVDhSdRRhbr8ABAg15IGp > o9dqij6b4o3uKoL0zK61Xgj8b7sEwuBbniDfRS60Ay6R0/fYj8XijXIdRpOEboA= > =hMwC > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > --------------------------------------------------- > 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 -- Keith Smith --------------------------------------------------- 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