Cox Gigablast

Sat Dec 16 10:02:30 MST 2017

I am also giving serious thought to bit coin mining here. About all I need
> is a Rasberry Pie, a linux image for BT mining and some USB stick hash
> generators..
>

Sounds like it should only take you a few years to get your first profit.
;) In all seriousness, I think you have to have a legit GPU farm using
something like a few Nvidia 10xx series if you want to see any return on
your investment. Fun, if you are trying to get into it in general, from my
experience. I've been doing Storjshare for a few months, and got some money
in returned. My current farm at the moment, is using an old Dell 32bit
Debian distro running 2 nodes inside of it. Great cheap way to get into
concurrences.

Andrew McRobb
Full-time Software Developer
Part-time Freelancer

On Sat, Dec 16, 2017 at 9:57 AM, Eric Oyen <eric.oyen at icloud.com> wrote:

> I will definitely check with my contact in cox biz.
>
> so far, I am pleased with what I have here. Sure, it's a tad more
> expensive for the biz class, but then, I don't have to worry about the
> sliding IP of residential, or all the blocked ports and even the new usage
> caps (which can get rather expensive per GB over limit).  The other room
> mates have fallen into a pattern of now knowing how to work the chrome cast
> unit and are not willing to go back to the old video offering. One enjoys
> his left wing news, the other enjoys his right wing news, the third enjoys
> his gaming on secret world, WoW and others. As for me, I am just doing a
> lot of reading on the finer points of the law with regard to some issues I
> have been reading on (the collusion issue and some others).
>
> btw, I am also seriously considering signing up as a DMCA agent (courtesy
> of the FSF) so that I can host a torrent stream of the more popular Linux
> torrent transfers. This way, should the ISP (cox) object, I can show them
> the paperwork and they could go back to whoever complained and say "too
> bad, so sad…"
>
> I am also giving serious thought to bit coin mining here. About all I need
> is a Rasberry Pie, a linux image for BT mining and some USB stick hash
> generators..
>
> anyway, that's all I plan on using my Cox connection for just now. I might
> also register a website and host from here as well (a spare laptop acting
> as a web server is pretty easy to do).
>
> -eric
> from the central offices of the Technomage Guild, Signs and Portents
> Division.
>
> On Dec 16, 2017, at 8:00 AM, techlists at phpcoderusa.com wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > On 2017-12-15 18:21, der.hans wrote:
> >> Am 18. Nov, 2017 schwätzte Eric Oyen so:
> >> moin moin,
> >> does Cox Business still want a one year cancellation notice?
> >
> > I have Cox Home Office.  Initially I was on a contract of 1, 2, or 3
> years - my choice and the price got better the longer the contract.  I am
> now month to month.  They offered me 1/2 a month off for the 1st month of
> the 12 month contract so I will probably do it.  Oh, and when they called I
> was told month to month was going to go up 10% over having a contract.  I
> wonder if that was just a salesman ploy. The irony is I have no other
> options for high speed internet.
> >
> > It is my understanding Home Office and Cox Business are the same except
> pricing.  Cox Business is more expensive from what I have been told.
> >
> > When I switched from a consumer plan about 5 or 6 years ago the cost
> went up $25/mo.  I was thinking I was going to run a server.... never did.
> It still is handy to not have any blocked ports because I can setup a test
> server and run it as needed.
> >
> > And I have less outages.  I've been using Cox for high speed internet
> and have no problems.  But then I do not push things to the limit....
> >
> >
> >
> >> Cox Business wanted a new contract to move the service and the new
> >> contract stipulated a 12 month notice for cancellation. I moved to
> Century
> >> Link :).
> >> Cox also completely borked up my cancellation of the old service and it
> >> took me 6 months to get them to actually cancel my service and give me
> my
> >> money back. They lost the paperwork and threatened me with collections
> >> on a cancelled service with a balance that they owed me. Luckily, I had
> >> made sure to get an email acking my cacellation at the beginning.
> >> ciao,
> >> der.hans
> >>> you might have to call cox business and speak to Jame Hidalgo. He is
> my contact over there. btw, business class internet doesn't suffer from the
> hard cap that you got charged for this last time out. they might even have
> access to the fiber that you want.
> >>> now, sure, most of the tier 1 droids at residential customer service
> are good people. However, anyone who has ever worked a CSr desk knows that
> they all have to run from a script.
> >>> anyway, if you call Jame Hidalgo at cox business, please tell him who
> referred you.
> >>> Eric OYen
> >>> from the central office of the Technomage Guild, Internet services
> referrals Dept.
> >>> On Nov 18, 2017, at 7:44 AM, techlists at phpcoderusa.com wrote:
> >>>> Asked for a supervisor.
> >>>> On 2017-11-17 12:38, Snyder, Alexander J wrote:
> >>>>> Kind of irritated by this ...
> >>>>> Cox lays fiber in my subdivision, has the service trucks wrapped in
> "Gigablast" vinyl adverts ...
> >>>>> Service folk gladly sharing that "it's for gigablast" ...
> >>>>> I did my giddy dance, nerdgasm, the whole 9 yards ...
> #ShutUpAndTakeMyMoney
> >>>>> I called them each week and spoke to customer service folks that
> seemed to be less informed than the guy last week ...
> >>>>> Bro ... that was 6 months ago. >:-(
> >>>>> The only major development was Cox billing me for going over 1TB a
> bandwidth a month.
> >>>>> Friends in Auhtukee and Glendale have it, and are quite happy with
> it. Why can't I have this happiness?
> >>>>> Sincerely,
> >>>>> AloneAndHopless ...
> >>>>> ;-)
> >>>>> Thanks,
> >>>>> Alex.
> >>>>> Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S8+
> >>>>> On Nov 17, 2017 12:13, "Jerry Snitselaar" <dev at snitselaar.org>
> wrote:
> >>>>> Anyone using this service? It looks like it finally arrived in our
> >>>>> neighborhood. I'd prefer to try Google Fiber, but that seems to be
> >>>>> dead in the valley since their competitors complained about the deals
> >>>>> they were able to make with the cities. So tempted to upgrade to
> this.
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