Cox general speed issues

[Michael Butash]

  Bob, I'm a fairly heavy user, but they don't throttle in their network
(yet).  If you "abuse" the network, or show up in top talker reports per
market, they just shut you down.  They're not that smart yet.

  They do have Sandvine boxes in their network (the infamous scourge
comcast uses/used for killing p2p), but I've been told their in bypass
because of the general consumer backlash against other said isp's.  Cox
is still trying to figure out QoS, so it wouldn't surprise me they just
have something screwed up.

-mb


On Mon, 2009-05-25 at 11:20 -0700, Bob Elzer wrote:
> 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
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------
> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:
> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
> 
>