Cox Gigablast

Sat Dec 16 10:03:45 MST 2017

*Cryptocurrences.

Andrew McRobb
Full-time Software Developer
Part-time Freelancer

On Sat, Dec 16, 2017 at 10:02 AM, Andrew McRobb <andrewmcrobb at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> 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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