Posted: 9/23/2014 1:39:26 PM EDT
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Can anyone tell me what internet speeds you are seeing on Cox in Tucson, and perhaps whether you are NE, SE, NW, SW?
I have had them before a few years back and they always seemed to bog down with infrastructure and bandwidth issues. If I pay for 150Bps, will I see it? I have Century Link now and I consistently get 18Mbps, extremely consistently, but I am looking to switch. Thanks in advance. |
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Its going to be better than Century Link, you may be getting 18Mbps down, but you likely only get 800k upload. When you are doing any real activity, if that upload gets capped you are dead in the water. Online backups (carbonite, etc) or even uploading a bunch of pictures to costco for printing, facebook, whatever it is (virus). If you saturate your upload, you cant send ack packets and the rest will turn to absolute shit.
I have CL, and it is by far the worst internet I have had since the late 90s. DSL is just terrible. Cox, you will get more bust speed and there will be times that you will not get 150Mbps (assuming thats what you meant, not Bps). A big part will be where you speed test to, or where you are actually downloading from (source). I would be shocked if you had a worse experience with that connection than CL outside of an outage or an issue with the service. |
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Maybe its just my area, but thats the max. An increase for upload to 2Mbps is available in some areas, at more than double the cost (business line).
DSL is an old and dying technology. Now, if you can get on Century Link fiber (pretty sure its not available in residential markets in Arizona), then that would be something to consider! For me, and what I do for a living.. I would not think twice about jumping from 20Mbps service to 150Mbps service =) |
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This is my average speed with Cox in Tucson. I'm using the "Premier" package. <a href="http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3782612032" target="_blank">http://www.speedtest.net/result/3782612032.png</a> Crap that is fast! I need to get a new modem to take advantage of that speed! |
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Crap that is fast! I need to get a new modem to take advantage of that speed! Quoted:
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This is my average speed with Cox in Tucson. I'm using the "Premier" package. <a href="http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3782612032" target="_blank">http://www.speedtest.net/result/3782612032.png</a> Crap that is fast! I need to get a new modem to take advantage of that speed! FWIW, I'm using the Motorola SB6141. |
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Quoted: Maybe its just my area, but thats the max. An increase for upload to 2Mbps is available in some areas, at more than double the cost (business line). DSL is an old and dying technology. Now, if you can get on Century Link fiber (pretty sure its not available in residential markets in Arizona), then that would be something to consider! For me, and what I do for a living.. I would not think twice about jumping from 20Mbps service to 150Mbps service =) Cox is a better value, if they are more consistent. They always would have complete outages, several times a week, and would never admit they had an issue. I am trying to find out if things have changed. I could always hit their advertised speed about 5 minutes a month. The rest of the month during peak times, they were useless. |
Preferred....and I'm right down the street from ya... Have yet to experience an outage in quite some time, last time I recall was during an upgrade, was down a couple hrs, a year ago or so. ETA I pay 49 per mo for the preferred, if they can give me a similar discount I my upgrade to permiere... |
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I'm on the far SE side. More S than E.
Highest speeds have been 147mbps down, 66mbps up, that was blind speed on a laptop connected directly to my cable modem (bridge). With two firewalls behind it, I still see speeds over 90mbps routinely, usually in the 100-120mbps area if its the middle of the day and no one in the neighborhood is home. On a Friday night when everyone in the neighborhood is watching Netflix, I still get 70+mbps. This is with the Premier package and a DOCSIS 3.0 Motorola bridge. FWIW, I am paying for the 400gb/mo quota, not the speed. |
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They (CL) installed fiber to remote router/switch gear and that is why you no longer need to be as close to their main hub. They have not installed residential fiber. If they are doing anything, they are cherry picking business customers. Cox is a better value, if they are more consistent. They always would have complete outages, several times a week, and would never admit they had an issue. I am trying to find out if things have changed. I could always hit their advertised speed about 5 minutes a month. The rest of the month during peak times, they were useless. Quoted:
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Maybe its just my area, but thats the max. An increase for upload to 2Mbps is available in some areas, at more than double the cost (business line). DSL is an old and dying technology. Now, if you can get on Century Link fiber (pretty sure its not available in residential markets in Arizona), then that would be something to consider! For me, and what I do for a living.. I would not think twice about jumping from 20Mbps service to 150Mbps service =) Cox is a better value, if they are more consistent. They always would have complete outages, several times a week, and would never admit they had an issue. I am trying to find out if things have changed. I could always hit their advertised speed about 5 minutes a month. The rest of the month during peak times, they were useless. Even with fiber that close, you don't get more than 18Mbps of their advertised 20Mbps? I am in rural far east side of Phoenix, and I get 20-22Mbps usually and outages =( Any outage pisses me off, since I work from home. I have no other choice out here really, but if I did... I would drop CL for cable, fiber or even high speed wireless (not cell). Good luck with whatever you end up doing! |