Hey, what constitutes a "fairly heavy"/"heavy" user with Cox cable?

I have the highest tier availbable (20mb/sec?) and have managed to dl many
tb's worth of data in the last 6 months since switching to that tier. i
haven't been rate-limited yet though...

btw, im in southwest chandler (10 and 202 interloop) area and get an avg of
1.2MB/sec in peak times and aroun 2.5 to 3MB/sec off-peak.
Thanks,
Gnunixguy

On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Michael Butash <michael@butash.net> wrote:

>  Bob, I'm a fairly heavy user, but they don't throttle in their network
> (yet).  If you "abuse" the network, or show up in top talker reports per
> market, they just shut you down.  They're not that smart yet.
>
>  They do have Sandvine boxes in their network (the infamous scourge
> comcast uses/used for killing p2p), but I've been told their in bypass
> because of the general consumer backlash against other said isp's.  Cox
> is still trying to figure out QoS, so it wouldn't surprise me they just
> have something screwed up.
>
> -mb
>
>
> On Mon, 2009-05-25 at 11:20 -0700, Bob Elzer wrote:
> > What kind of user are you ?  if you are a heavy user, they may be
> limiting
> > you.
> >
> > If you only occasionally download large files and they are limiting you,
> > then you have a complaint.
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> > [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of
> Michael
> > Butash
> > Sent: Sunday, May 24, 2009 10:45 PM
> > To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> > Subject: Cox general speed issues
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> >   I'm curious, has anyone seen speed issues with cox lately or in about
> the
> > past 6 months in general?  I ask, because I have a completely
> reproducible
> > issue, where with ubuntu, doing an apt-get of any server, on any mirror
> > around the world, I get all downloads that start very fast, and throttle
> > down to nothing after a few seconds.  Restarting it goes fast, then slows
> > like clockwork, literally to kb/s or nothing.
> > Same behavior occurs with FTP protocol for the apt-get's as well.  P2P,
> > usenet, other bandwidth leeching methods work just fine, just anything
> with
> > static/single/long-term tcp flow connections seems to be affected.
> > I tried this from different modems on different regional nodes, and same
> > thing.  I'm thinking im not the only one with this, and feels a lot like
> > buffering/queuing (problems) in their network.
> >
> >   A little birdy in the know told me this is could be a more rampant
> issue
> > due to updates in the cox cable network, but I'd like to have some other
> > consensus/input before making an issue of it.  Most windows users I've
> > talked to seem oblivious to it, but I figure I'd ask others that might
> use
> > linux the same way.  I don't use windoze enough to know.
> >
> > -mb
> >
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