Cox general speed issues

[blake gonterman]

That's accurate... ~2.5MB/sec = ~9GB/hour on my connection...

Interesting, I didn't know they had a limit... They must not enforce
regularly...

--Gnunixguy

On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Kurt Granroth <
kurt+plug-discuss at granroth.com <kurt%2Bplug-discuss at granroth.com>> wrote:

> Terabytes?  If that's accurate and not an exaggeration, then Cox is
> letting you slide.  Do NOT be surprised if they throw a ToS complaint
> against you at a moment's notice.  According to their published limits,
> you can dl "only" 60 gigabytes/mo.  That's 720 GB a year... so if you
> really are consuming TBs in 1/2 year, then you are far over their limits.
>
> http://www.cox.com/policy/limitations.asp
>
> On 5/25/09 3:09 PM, blake gonterman wrote:
> > Hey, what constitutes a "fairly heavy"/"heavy" user with Cox cable?
> > I have the highest tier availbable (20mb/sec?) and have managed to dl
> > many tb's worth of data in the last 6 months since switching to that
> > tier. i haven't been rate-limited yet though...
> >
> > btw, im in southwest chandler (10 and 202 interloop) area and get an avg
> > of 1.2MB/sec in peak times and aroun 2.5 to 3MB/sec off-peak.
> > Thanks,
> > Gnunixguy
> > On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Michael Butash <michael at butash.net
> > <mailto:michael at butash.net>> wrote:
> >
> >       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
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