Cox Business Internet
Michael Butash
michael at butash.net
Tue Jul 12 20:18:42 MST 2016
Back when I worked there early 2000's and took over the network from
@home, we'd begun, at times forcibly, to get the business services
installers to refurb the site more than normal contractors might for
"just video". Mainly if there were even borderline issues, we pushed
them to clean things up up front, replacing buried cable with conduits,
old coax, bad feeders, etc. Helped a lot when we trained them to treat
it more like a data circuit than an analog video connection where data
path sensitivity was far more necessary, and seems pretty standard those
guys have a good QAM meter when coming on-site.
Not sure how it is now for later installs, but I'd like to think good
habits hold true, especially since internet and video are all data
connections.
I would think they probably fixed up some of your house cabling when
moving to business, fix old splitters and direct runs, but really
nothing upstream with the network changes with going from res to business.
If you don't need same day on-site support for an outage on premise, or
open ports for http/smtp, then residential is often more than adequate.
-mb
On 07/12/2016 06:25 PM, Keith Smith wrote:
>
> I had consumer Cox for maybe 8 years. I would occasionally experience
> some downtime. I moved to Cox Business maybe 4 years ago. Less down
> time. I work out of my house so the network did not changes, or maybe
> the immediate network did not change. I am able to run a server,
> which I do not... but did for a short time... Long Story....
>
> Speed is ok. Occasionally things will slow. Who knows why?
>
> I cannot tell you if there is any downtime in the middle of the night.
>
> Maybe I'll move back to consumer.
>
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