I recently switched to CL to save money, pure bottom line.  As someone that has some love for the cable industry, having been there to build it even pre-DOCSIS circa '99-00, and working at cox before turning too evil here locally, it was a bit of a sad parting, but necessary as they've fallen too of late.  I got tired of cox pimping me for overages in bandwidth, which was the long and short of my leaving them all together.  I haven't paid for video in 25 years, so that's irrelevant

Cox is better bandwidth imho, but not better enough to pay another 25% over on, and particularly not when they've done nothing but anger me of late anyways with general outages, degradation, and otherwise not giving a crap that they are in a general state of decline.  CL has been in perpetual decline for 50 years as Bell's race to the bottom, at least they're cheaper now, and the service is otherwise stable for much less cost.  I will never get fiber in my old-assed area, so the realist kicks in, might as well save some cash for the 140mbps service @ $55/mo vs. $80 for 80mps cox and randomly taxing me $20-30 extra a month for overages.

-mb

On Thu, Feb 7, 2019 at 7:13 PM Stephen Partington <cryptworks@gmail.com> wrote:
I am loving my Cox fiber. 

On Thu, Feb 7, 2019, 7:10 PM Eric Oyen <eric.oyen@icloud.com> wrote:
Yeah,
I will stick with cox and their coax method. It’s worked so far.

Btw, century link was in the neighborhood last week with a bunch of sales people trying to push fiber optic. They laid a main trunk up 83rd ave here about 2 years ago. I asked the sales person if they would be willing to run fiber right up to my door. The answer I got sounded a lot like marketing speak. When I pushed, they admitted that it would still be pots lines from the nearest fiber node to my place. Once that was admitted, then the real truth started coming out about line replacement costs, etc. needless to say, not worth it.

-Eric
From the Central Offices of the Technomage guild, Infrastructure development and implementation Dept.


On Feb 7, 2019, at 5:41 PM, Michael Butash <michael@butash.net> wrote:


Google Fiber has been dying on the vine a bit now, but typical google, anything that has problems they just whack anymore.  Are you glad or sad they didn't come here, more than the 2 people that actually it in some foreign territory?  Better to have never loved than loved and lost?

Better or worse, that few years Google was pushing Fiber, they got Cox scrambling to at least pretend to push more fiber/gigabit technologies, until they smelled blood and decided google wasn't worth continued effort to defend against, going back to coax and much more status quo.

Centurylink has to move off 2-wire tech as their only option for evolution in anything new beyond 150mps speeds, but don't expect them to ever retrofit old properties (me, probably you too) soon.  Not sure what they will do with old dsl like my area, but give up and not offer better service.  They can only bond 2x 70mps channels on old 2wire tech, cox can push gig today if they wanted to.

If you don't have fiber now, you'll never have it likely with either provider any time soon.  Cox Coax can evolve/compete with fiber, CL DSL not so much.

-mb

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