Cox speed vary. Usually they are around 1.5 Mbps down, 256 Kbps up.
On 16 May 2002 at 21:43, George Toft wrote:
From: George Toft <george@georgetoft.com>
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Subject: Re: DNS Problems (Anthem)
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> Hi Gilbert,
>
> I am currently in Florida, and my wife is happy with the service. When I
> get back to Phoenix, if Qwest's VDSL service still sux, I'll investigate
> switching.
>
> What is your speed on Cox?
>
> George
>
>
> "Gilbert T. Gutierrez, Jr." wrote:
> >
> > George,
> > Have you switched to Cox yet? I switched the first week that it was
> > available at Anthem. I promptly went on vacation the next week (just
> > getting back yesterday). I have not had any problems with their service
> > yet, though their speed is very questionable and the cable channels are in a
> > different order from Qwest's.
> >
> > Personally, I did not use my Qwest VDSL that often (had it for nearly 2
> > years) and when I did it worked (I get enough Internet at work and usually
> > when I get home, the last thing I want to see is a computer and the
> > Internet.). I noticed Qwest's Cable going out every once and a while.
> >
> > I switched not because of anything that Qwest did, but for financial
> > reasons. I paid about $80/month for VDSL and Basic Cable. Now I pay an
> > undisclosed amount for Cable modem service and every cable channel COX has
> > (Its nice when your wife works for the cable company!).
> >
> > Perceived Differences...
> > Cox seems slower.
> > Cox only provides 1 IP address (you can pay for additional), Qwest gave me 3
> > IP addresses.
> > QOS - it is too early to tell.
> > Cost - I think they are about the same.
> >
> > If someone is only having DNS issues, I would install a DNS Cache server on
> > their machine. My preference being Tiny DNS.
> >
> > Gilbert
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> > [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of George
> > Toft
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 7:25 PM
> > To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> > Subject: Re: DNS Problems
> >
> > That won't do any good. Their DHCP servers (in Anthem) return three IP's:
> > a 192.168.x.x address, which routes but does not respond, plus the other
> > two mentioned below. Last September (or so), the first DNS failed. Then
> > the second one failed. I confirmed this with ethereal. I called them,
> > and the CSR politely took my complaint. Later that day, a supervisor
> > called me back to explain failover - if the first one fails, it will
> > roll over to the second name server. "Yes," I said, "but your second name
> > server has failed also." It was down for over four days. I set up my old
> > Sparc box (Solaris 7 - see, I use UNIX as well as Unix) as a DNS and got
> > back to work. About once per week I would check on the name servers, and
> > the primary NEVER CAME BACK UP!!! (Never being defined as until Christmas).
> >
> > There's a reason they lost their exclusive contract in Anthem. Something
> > about poor QoS maybe? You can view my notes here:
> > http://georgetoft.com/qwest
> >
> > If you read my notes, you will see the futility in dealing with them.
> >
> > George
> >
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