Does Cox artificially favor Speed-Tests? Real-World speeds slower than SpeedTest results.
I am on the Internet Preferred 150 plan, and in the last few months I've been having issues with my transfer speeds. Based on my plan, I should be getting 150 Mbps down / 10 Mbps up, and results from speedtest.com or fast.com always show my connection meeting or exceeding those transfer rates with speeds around 175 down and 10.5 up on average. The problem is that these speeds are not holding up under sustained real-world loads, particularly on the Upstream side. I operate a Plex Media Server in my home and routinely stream from it throughout the day. In the past I was able to reliably stream at 8 Mbps, but in the last couple of months I have had severe buffering issues and had to bump down to 4 Mbps or less to get a stable stream. I have backed this up with a series of iperf3 tests, all of which show an initial transfer speed of 10 Mbps, which almost immediately drops to 4-4.5 Mbps after about a second of testing. Regular large transfers to other cloud storage services tell a similar story. For the record, I disconnected my router and did a wired test with my laptop connected directly to the modem, which did show an overall increase to 5-5.5 Mbps in iPerf3, but that is still well below the service I pay for. Unless there is a problem with my modem (it has not given me any noteworthy trouble to date), I can't think of any hardware bottlenecks on my end that would limit my speeds, so it really feels like Cox is under-delivering my internet service and masking it by prioritizing speed test traffic.
Internet intermittent service
Hello, I have been having my internet drop like clockwork anywhere from 10am est to 1pm est. Someone please help me understand why is it that I pay $100.00 a month for internet delivered via cable and for some reason it is constantly dropping. As many of your customers are in a telework situation, this is clearly an unacceptable situation. I have had my router replaced and contacted customer service several times only to have my account credited. A credit does not solve my issue, as myself and my spouse rely on this service for our careers. The service has been so terrible I would fire Cox if it didn't have a MONOPOLY on my area. Please, please help me understand why my service is constantly interrupted for seemingly no reason at all. Worse, my neighbors whom all receive service from the same distribution box have been having similar issues, and have been filing complaints. If this continues to happen I will be forced to cancel my subscription to Cox and acquire a mobile hot spot device from one of your competitors. I will then encourage my entire community to do the same, as they have all had the same issue.Packet Loss: Gaming and Cloud connections
Hello Cox community: Lately, I am getting significant packet loss when playing games (PUBG, Overwatch, Fortnite, etc). I've had up to 12% upload packet loss, but rarely any download packet loss. This packet loss is also causing frequent disconnections from my Amazon AWS instances, or connections to Microsoft Azure. I've replaced my modem, bypassed the router, refreshed the Windows OS and re-downloaded the software. Today I reinstalled all the drivers, and the issue persists. I've had a Cox technician in my home, who states everything looks good on my end. Has anyone else found a resolution to this issue? It is painfully annoying.
What am I paying for exactly?
I'm in New Orleans. I got duped into upgrading to Gigablast almost a year ago, because I live stream for work, and I was told what I had (500), wasn't good enough (in actuality, I needed to upgrade my equipment. I did that, and I got Gigablast, and I have the same quality internet as before. I just pay more for it.) A technician has come, a new modem was sent, I have the best cables, I connect via ethernet, and make sure everything that could compete with the internet while I'm working, won't. Sometimes it's great. Mostly it's not. I KNOW it's not me. Customer service is kind and apologetic, even when I'm in tears from losing days of work, and therefore can't afford the stupid upgrade I got hosed into getting. Now there are add-ons that are meant to do help do what their service should do already. I can't understand how Cox hasn't been struck by lighning for having the audacity to offer. My fury can be seen from space. I know there are no real solutions. AT&T fiber is only available to certain neighborhoods in New Orleans so far. I know everyone in my neighborhood will jump ship the second it's available. I guess my question is, are there any class action lawsuits on the horizonthat can jump on?
