OT: Cox slowing torrents?

[Stephen]

I have been tempted to get their business service, and they guarantee
those up/down rates and include something like a 99% uptime or very
near to it. and you get x number of IPs and no blocked ports.

Maybe if my income gets better or i can get some steady side work.

On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Joe <lists at joefleming.net> wrote:
> 2Mbit/384kbit?! No thank you! I might as well be paying for their value
> residential line. Unless that's a guaranteed MINIMUM bandwidth or
> something.
>
> I'm paying $60/mo right now and getting 10 times the down speed and 5
> times the up speed. And aside from this one (isolated?) case, I do
> actually see those speeds too. I need to upload speeds to keep the VPN
> connection back to the office nice and smooth, 384kbit just wouldn't cut
> it. I've been really happy with their service so far, it was just really
> annoying that all my torrents dropped off and refused to come back.
> Seems to be running ok now though.
>
> -Joe
>
> Sean Parsons wrote:
>> I signed up for a Cox Business account at my home and I don't get any of
>> their residential restrictions. I have 2Mb/384Kb backed with an SLA and it
>> costs a few dollars more than residential (Approx $60/month), but the
>> support is stellar and I can run servers on my dedicated connection. Worth a
>> look to see if it helps.
>>
>> Sean Parsons
>>
>> -----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 Stephen
>> Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 9:02 AM
>> To: Main PLUG discussion list
>> Subject: Re: OT: Cox slowing torrents?
>>
>> Note, I think cox has rolled a policy to slow down certain traffic
>> during peak load/times to prevent a detrimental effect on the network.
>> then at off peak times will go back up (or supposed to)
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 8:28 AM, Joe <lists at joefleming.net> wrote:
>>> I'm on Cox cable for internet and paying for their Premiere package
>>> (20MBit down, 2MBit up). Over the past day or so I've seen my torrent
>>> uploads go from respectable to abysmal; I'm lucky if I can upload at
>>> over 10kB/s now. I've reset both my model and router several times and
>>> that hasn't helped at all. Is anyone else seeing this problem too or is
>>> it only on my end? Thanks for any feedback.
>>>
>>> -Joe
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