Upgrading to Cox

[Charles Jones]

I've had good service from Cox for the past few years, and have been 
pleased with their constant bandwidth upgrades. I use their Premier 
internet and "bundle" service which means I get my phone and cable from 
them too. I seldom use my landline phone so although I have never had it 
not work, that doesn't mean it never went down.

They do block some default outbound application ports like SMTP, I guess 
to keep people from using their connection as a spam portal.

As for the setup it's reall simple. If you use their cable modem you 
just connect it to your cable connection and any PC that you uplink to 
it will DHCP an address.  You can also connect a thirdparty linksys or 
other combo cablemodem/router and NAT several machines behind the 
connection. If you use your own router you have to either use the MAC 
address spoof option (spoof the MAC of the first PC you connected), or 
call them and let them enter the MAC of your router.

-Charles

farli wrote:
> I am finally in a position to upgrade my dialup service, along with
> finally getting something other than broadcast tv.
>
> I am looking at the Cox Bundle which provides Permier Internet access,
> digital cable, and digital phone.
>
> First, the website seems to imply that the phone service is over fiber,
> not copper.  Does that mean that I will no longer have to deal with
> phone outages because of Qwest copper wire shorts?
>
> Can I use the Cox internet connection without a firewall?
>
> I am not real proficient at setting up things like this.  Does Cox do
> all the setup?
>
> Any other info you guys can offer would be appreciated.
>