Re: ?: Cox vs QWEST

>    I'm on the East Side of Central (close to 32nd st & McDowell). I've
> had my moment's with Cox, quite a few... sporadic up & down, bad tv
> signal. But, mysteriously after I complained almost every night for a
> week straight, they called me up and said something to the effect of "We
> made some billing changes and have a tech out there straightening things
> out for us..." (wha? ... and why wasn't this done before?)

>    Now, my 'net connection has been fairly solid (down once in the past
> 3 weeks), my tv clear, and my phone works. My 'net connection is faster,
> and I believe they actually did increase the speed as they claimed, and
> they also block ANY port 25 traffic (in/out), and port 80.  I haven't
> tried any other ports, but I hope they'd block windows ports, I don't
> want my neighbor seeing my systems, not that I'd let them).

>     My phone is another story, at one point they thought I cancelled my
> phone service, then I called them and screamed, and that was fixed, then
> the voicemail and "extras" had to be reprogrammed into the router my
> phone went into... add another 2 days. Again, it's fine now, and clear
> as a whistle. Someone else mentioned using their cell for Long
> Distance... I do that as well as Cox seems adamant about $.05/min for
> any long distance.

>    I have the full digital package, Digital TV with 100's of channels,
> digital phone and Basic Internet ... $99.95 (+$20 in fees and taxes).
> I'm new to AZ, and have yet to have Qwest, but I've had these problems
> with almost any provider, except the one I worked for in NY.  I agree
> with someone else's quote with a slight modification: "they all suck,
> pick the one you have the least".

>     Tony