I've been intermittently taking speed tests and seeing if things have changed, as I'm sure you have as well. I also checked my router settings, and for some reason I had dynamic QoS on which may have been affecting my speed tests, because when I turned it off and then tested again this morning (unfortunately, before I had tested today, so I am unsure if it actually had an effect), I was up to between 400-500Mbps, and when I just tested now I got up to 535Mbps. So, either it's a gradual improvement, or perhaps some other fluctuation.
Steelbender you should try a speed test without your router. Connect a computer using a cat cable directly to your cable modem and eliminate your router all together for testing purposes. There might be another router setting that is still affecting your speeds Report back.
I was thinking about that, but I have been lazy. ;) But yeah, I do realize that would be the best test. It's just odd because I haven't changed any other settings that I could think of that would affect speeds like this.
You can easily determine if there is a router or Cox issue with what I suggested. Eliminate your router from the equation.That's actually the main troubleshooting suggestion that Cox suggests so one can rule out that it's not a router issue. Until you do this test, I don't think you can really blame Cox. Afterwards, when you do the test and find out a direct connection to the modem doesn't help, then blame Cox ;'). Be interesting what you find out.
Well, as much as I hate to admit it, I did test up to ~950 Mbps when bypassing the router. Lovely. -_- Now to find out why the router is suddenly throttling the bandwidth.
seper8tor What router do you use? I have a Netgear Nighthawk.
Edit: As an addendum, turning off the Traffic Monitor function in the router settings has improved speeds by a couple hundred Mbps (!!!), but it's still ~700 instead of ~950 that I got with the one test w/o the router.
Edit2: After disabling IPv6 again, speeds are a smidgeon above 900 Mbps now. I do not understand why the darn router has a bandwidth loss with it enabled - quite annoying. But at any rate, thank you openbsd for your nudge to connect directly for the testing. As I had mentioned, I know that is always the best test, but I guess I just didn't realize the traffic monitor setting throttles it so much. (And it's also annoying that the router also has such a noticeable issue with IPv6 as well -_-)
