Back when I worked there early 2000's and took over the network from 
@home, we'd begun, at times forcibly, to get the business services 
installers to refurb the site more than normal contractors might for 
"just video".  Mainly if there were even borderline issues, we pushed 
them to clean things up up front, replacing buried cable with conduits, 
old coax, bad feeders, etc.  Helped a lot when we trained them to treat 
it more like a data circuit than an analog video connection where data 
path sensitivity was far more necessary, and seems pretty standard those 
guys have a good QAM meter when coming on-site.

Not sure how it is now for later installs, but I'd like to think good 
habits hold true, especially since internet and video are all data 
connections.

I would think they probably fixed up some of your house cabling when 
moving to business, fix old splitters and direct runs, but really 
nothing upstream with the network changes with going from res to business.

If you don't need same day on-site support for an outage on premise, or 
open ports for http/smtp, then residential is often more than adequate.

-mb


On 07/12/2016 06:25 PM, Keith Smith wrote:
>
> 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.
>
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