Cox Internet connectivity..

[Anthony Boynes]

According to  a Cox tech in the followng thread, there is some type of
maintenance being done.

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r20515680-AZ-Speeds-Awful-Slow-In-The-Last-Few-Days


On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 11:25 PM, Michael March <mmarch at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Latency depends mainly on the modulation scheme, as it does on cable and
>> DSL.
>> Packet loss, unfortunately, is more common than not and is directly
>> related to
>> oversubscription.  I was lucky in that both systems I used (a local ISP
>> using
>> Canopy as well as ClearWire when they first moved in) were not
>> oversubscribed
>> and I rarely encountered packet loss though my speed would vary quite a
>> bit.
>> The Canopy was real nice because it was sold as a business service so
>> day speeds
>> were bad but at night I was pretty much the only person on the segment
>> so I would
>> get over 2 megs/second down AND up!
>>
>
> Hmm.. My experience with Canopy is that its rock solid day or night. The way
> it works each subscriber has a guaranteed time slice to transmit their data
> so the amount of traffic hitting the AP shouldn't degrade an individual
> subscriber.
>
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