Cox Gigablast

[Austin Godber]

I am in the exact same neighborhood as Stephen (hi neighbor!) and upgraded
during the summer as soon as it became available.  The service has been
excellent.  But you don't have to rely on my anecdotal evidence alone ... I
have data.

First, here is the change in ping latency between my machine and cox's
first upstream gateway


Checking smokeping now it seems they've changed my gateway IP so my recent
data is missing.

I do, however, have about a years worth of speednet download data (4 times
a day)


​
Raw CSV data attached for your perusal.  Also I've realized that I don't
have my speedtest script locked to a specific server so it may autodetect a
different server sometimes.  I think that explains the dramatic change in
upload speed.  As you have already mentioned, not all internet sites have
Gb network connections.  I am pretty sure I am maxing out the speedtest
hosts rather than my internet.  I have Google Wifi bandwidth tests that
consistently show 700 Mbps down 800 Mbps up.  Gaps are from when the
machine running the tests was off.  You can see I switch to gigablast in
Late June 2017.  Prior to that I had "300 Mbps" from cox.  I think there's
a month or so of Centurylink  at the beginning.

Also don't forget if you upgrade, you may want faster LAN/wireless, though
Cox gave me an 802.11AC router.

- Austin


On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 12:52 PM, Stephen Partington <cryptworks at gmail.com>
wrote:

> More clarity I am in Tempe between mill and rural north of Southern.
>
> This I noticed are that most sites cannot support 1g of bandwidth. However
> if you use a multi peering download like torrent things go stupid fast.
>
> On Nov 17, 2017 12:49 PM, "Stephen Partington" <cryptworks at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I have had GB from Aug this year. And it is fantastic. 1g up and down is
>> a beautiful thing.
>>
>> On Nov 17, 2017 12:38 PM, "Charles Lewton" <clewton44 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello Jerry et al,
>>>
>>> We have been using Gigablast since May, 2016.  It has been excellent
>>> results and reliable service.
>>>
>>> I would subscribe again if moving to an area it is available.
>>>
>>> Chuck
>>>
>>> On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 12:13 PM, 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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