Cox general speed issues

[Bob Elzer]

What kind of user are you ?  if you are a heavy user, they may be limiting
you.

If you only occasionally download large files and they are limiting you,
then you have a complaint.

 

-----Original Message-----
From: plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
[mailto:plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Michael
Butash
Sent: Sunday, May 24, 2009 10:45 PM
To: plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Subject: Cox general speed issues

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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