Cox Data Usage Notification

[Eric Oyen]

about all a VPN does is to keep your traffic private. The ISP's don't have any business prying into what data crosses their network to your computer. We can already see that with comcast: forcing content vendors to pay extra fees just to make sure that the content is streamed in real time. 

Now, earlier this year, I had to move quite a lot of data into a backup service. Did the ISP have any business knowing what was in it? no. Then again, what is to stop them unless you encrypt the traffic.

The way I see it is this: I pay for access to the net and I expect that access to be secure from anyone who has no permissions to look at it. Electronically, I am exercising my rights to privacy (or at least as much as I can on the net).

anyway, thats my 2 cents worth. 

-eric

On May 13, 2014, at 10:48 AM, Stephen Partington wrote:

> A vpn will make the usage anonymous, but not give you more or less.
> 
> And Google fiber is why my move is specifically staying in Tempe :-)
> 
> 
> On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 8:22 AM, AZ Pete <plug at cactusfamily.com> wrote:
> 
>> I use Strong VPN and have been very happy with it.
>> http://www.strongvpn.com/
>> 
>> This is also worth a look.
>> http://www.vpngate.net/en/
>> 
>> 
>> On 5/13/2014 7:48 AM, Quan Nguyen wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Anyone using any paid Vpn to avoid being throttled
>> 
>> 
>> Quan
>> 
>> On May 13, 2014, at 7:40 AM, Derek Trotter <expat.arizonan at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>  I hear Google fiber is coming to town.  At least they will provide an
>> alternative to Cox.
>> 
>> On 05/12/2014 10:21 PM, Phil Waclawski wrote:
>> 
>> 300 Gigabytes?  That's a bit over 10gigs a day for a home account? I don't
>> think I could ever download that many distros in a month ;)
>> And I noticed as of May 1 they changed a lot of their contracts.  "Home
>> Office" business accounts are gone, I'm now on a month to month and need to
>> apparently upgrade to a full business one or they may just drop me. They've
>> gotten greedy
>> 
>> Phil W.
>> 
>> 
>> On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 10:08 PM, Quan Nguyen <Nguyenqua at cox.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> Anyone getting Cox Data Usage Notification from Cox.
>>> is there way to work around?
>>> 
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: Cox Internet Support Team (no reply) <noreply at cox.net>
>>> Subject: Cox Data Usage Notification
>>> 
>>> Dear Quan Nguyen,
>>> 
>>> Thank you for choosing Cox, we appreciate your business!
>>> 
>>> We have provided notice to you recently regarding your monthly data
>>> usage, and as a reminder your current Cox High Speed Internet package
>>> includes a data plan of 250 Gigabytes.  As of May 05, 2014, your household
>>> has used 300 Gigabytes of usage data in the current billing cycle.
>>> 
>>> Remember that you can view your data usage by logging into your account
>>> and checking your data usage meter in Internet Tools:
>>> 
>>> https://myaccount.cox.net/internettools/datausage/usage.cox
>>> 
>>> thank
>>> 
>>> Quan
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