Cox general speed issues

[Mark Phillips]

This may have very little to do with what you are experiencing. I also ran
into a sudden and sharp decrease in download speed from cox about a month
ago. I called cox, and they said there were no problems on their side. After
some further investigation on my own, I discovered that cox had changed the
name servers. The old ones work, but were very slow, and would time out a
lot. Once I updated my network configuration with the new name servers, the
speed came back. I found this solution by plugging the cox cable directly
into my computer (bypassing the router/network) and restarting networking
with DHCP. My download speed "came back" and I noticed the name servers had
changed.

Mark

On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 10:56 PM, Kenny McHenry <kennymcaz at gmail.com> wrote:

> Part of the fast speed and then the drop could be caused by their "speed
> boost". It gives you a fast burst of speed to start off a download but then
> slows down after that. I have noticed the same thing as well. expecially if
> i'm trying to apt-get during supposed "peak" times. you are not alone.
>
> On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 10:45 PM, Michael Butash <michael at butash.net>wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>>  I'm curious, has anyone seen speed issues with cox lately or in about
>> the past 6 months in general?  I ask, because I have a completely
>> reproducible issue, where with ubuntu, doing an apt-get of any server,
>> on any mirror around the world, I get all downloads that start very
>> fast, and throttle down to nothing after a few seconds.  Restarting it
>> goes fast, then slows like clockwork, literally to kb/s or nothing.
>> Same behavior occurs with FTP protocol for the apt-get's as well.  P2P,
>> usenet, other bandwidth leeching methods work just fine, just anything
>> with static/single/long-term tcp flow connections seems to be affected.
>> I tried this from different modems on different regional nodes, and same
>> thing.  I'm thinking im not the only one with this, and feels a lot like
>> buffering/queuing (problems) in their network.
>>
>>  A little birdy in the know told me this is could be a more rampant
>> issue due to updates in the cox cable network, but I'd like to have some
>> other consensus/input before making an issue of it.  Most windows users
>> I've talked to seem oblivious to it, but I figure I'd ask others that
>> might use linux the same way.  I don't use windoze enough to know.
>>
>> -mb
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