I had a person from Cox knock on my door to upgrade my internet because supposedly they have doubled their speed. Has anyone upgraded it? Is it worth it?





I had a person from Cox knock on my door to upgrade my internet because supposedly they have doubled their speed. Has anyone upgraded it? Is it worth it?




1 gb I think. I'm a cox user too and I have got the update info but I haven't got that speed yet. I'll check it out soon
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I mean 100 mb. Not 1 gb lol. Wishful thinking though
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Cox High Speed Internet Preferred will increase from 25 megabits per second to 50 megabits per second. Cox High Speed Internet Premier will increase from 50 megabits per second to 100 megabits per second. These packages represent nearly 75 percent of Cox’s high-speed Internet customers.
“We know speed is especially important in today’s world where more and more devices are connected through home Wi-Fi. We will continue to invest in our network to bring our customers the best online experience possible,” said Jacqui Vines, senior vice president and manager of Cox’s Southeast Region. The company has announced plans to offer gigabit speeds to all customers by 2017.
With Cox’s Preferred 50 Mbps speeds, customers can download 10 MP3 songs in a second and a full-length movie in less than four minutes. With the Premier 100 Mbps speeds, customers can download a full-length movie in less than two minutes.
http://theadvocate.com/news/10348136...speeds-without
Hmmm looks like gigabit will come later.
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I have Cox and I pay for 50mbps/10mbps with turbo-charged upload speeds of up to 25mbps. I haven't had them call or stop by to double my speeds or anything but I'm sure it would be worth doing. I'm in Las Vegas and they haven't yet laid their fiber lines so gigabit internet won't come until at least next year.
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i definately recommend cox.. their internet speeds are way faster and better.. they also dont charge u for overages... just dnt do the highest tier internet... most homes in vegas arent wired for that and those wires no on can change.. the platinum package will be just fine
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Make sure your cable modems are docsis 3.1 or above or you won't be able to get fast internet. It needs to be matched to your cable provider's system or whatever. I didn't know about that for a while and continued using 2.0. x.x lol
Edited - if you are using cable modem version 3.0 or below and will upgrade to 3.1, please make sure you tell your cable technician or support that your new modem is 3.1 so they can change the setting from older to 3.1 on their end. This part was overlooked by my technicians and no one knew why my cable modem wasn't giving me any improvement on the speeds for couple months!!! It took several technicians, a supervisor and few modem returns to find this problem. Lol
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DOCSIS 3.1
Released October 2013, plans support capacities of at least 10 Gbit/s downstream and 1 Gbit/s upstream using 4096 QAM. The new specs will do away with 6 MHz and 8 MHz wide channel spacing and instead use smaller (20 kHz to 50 kHz wide) orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) subcarriers; these can be bonded inside a block spectrum that could end up being about 200 MHz wide.[5]
Explained from
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOCSIS
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I will let you know how it goes.I am hoping that this bump in upload speed will make it so I am now able to upload content to AW. Do any of you smart technical cam girls think that this upgrade will help me? I always timeout before it is done uploading. :/
I don't have Cox available in my area, but I did upgrade from U-Verse to Xfinity/Comcast. I had the highest speeds I could get with U-Verse and it still sucked. The package we upgraded to is like 100mbps/40mbps (or something like that) and it is great. While I haven't been able to hit the maximum speeds, it is still good enough for me to be uploading content, husband playing video games, and the Playstation all going at once without any lag.
If you do online work seriously, it is TOTALLY WORTH IT to upgrade when/if you can afford it. I used to have to upload only 1 video at a time and hope it would be 15 minutes. Now I can do 3 or 4 at a time no problem. Haven't done live camming yet with it though, so I can't comment on that. I imagine it would be a nice, smooth stream though.
If the salesman that came to your door gave you their business card or left you their number, call them directly. Sometimes the door to door reps have the ability to make serious deals. I was paying about $250 for my DirecTV/U-Verse bundle. Because we kept our rep's card and went through him, we pay a fraction of that AND have a home phone too.
Did you girls find a good ROI when you upgraded to faster upload speeds? I'm thinking of upgrading from 4 mbps to 10 mbps. Does it help a lot with splitcamming to have 10 mbps?
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I have Cox Business and yes, it's worth more to upgrade. For Business accounts if you have issues they come out anytime of the day or night to fix it. I had a modem go down at 11 pm and they came out and put a new one in 30 minutes after I called.




That is great to know!
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Cox isn't an option where I live, but I wanted to ask a general upgrading question. I have Comcast, and my speeds right now are about 30 down, 6 up. It's pretty adequate for camming, and even splitting. My problem is that at high-traffic times, the connection will occasionally slow dramatically or drop for a minute, resulting in disconnects. I have a good modem, top of the line router, and am hardwired.
I don't necessarily need more speed, but I'm wondering if upgrading to faster internet would decrease the number of disconnects. Does anyone have any experience with that?
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There are two things you can do to help with random disconnects, neither of which is upgrading your speed, although I would also consider that, 6mbps isn't that great. The first, and cheaper option, is to get this modem, if you don't have it already: http://www.amazon.com/ARRIS-Motorola.../dp/B00AJHDZSI. This modem has four upstream channels, which basically means, that it has four mini connections, instead of one big one, so if one of them gets disconnected, no biggie, there's still the other three. That will help with the random disconnects, and should make them less frequent, but it won't eliminate them. There is a way to eliminate them completely, but it's not exactly cheap. If your main income is camming however, I think it would certainly be worth it. I mean, one DC'd gold show per month would essentially pay for it. To completely eliminate disconnects, you need to have two separate internet connections, from two separate providers, and combine them. The chance of both of them disconnecting at exactly the same time, barring some natural disaster like a giant earthquake severing the lines, are so astronomical as to make your internet uptime essentially 100.00%. So you already have cable internet from Comcast, you would also need to get something else, in my area, the only other ISP besides Comcast is CenturyLink DSL. Then you get a router that is capable of combining both of your internet connections into one, these are referred to as Dual-WAN routers with load-balancing and failover capabilities. The least-expensive suitable router for this purpose is the Cisco RV042, at around $140, here's a link: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16833124160 . I mostly escort at the moment, but once I transition into camming more regularly, I plan on going this route myself, that's why I've looked into it. For me personally, $140 for the router plus an extra $50 a month or so for a secondary internet connection is well worth it for the peace of mind of knowing that I will never be disconnected in the middle of a show, or the middle of a League of Legends game either XD
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^^ Wow! Thank you again! The modem sounds fantastic.
The combined internet thing is an amazing idea, but unfortunately I live in monopoly land, and Comcast has zero competition here. I don't really do gold shows, though, so I'm never losing tons of $$ from a single disconnect. Mainly it's just a pain in the ass for me and the customer. if I can reduce disconnects, I'd be happy.
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One more thing that can help with your internet connection's reliability more than most people might think is to use high-quality cabling. Those Cat-5 and coax cables that came with your modem? Not that great. I observed a noticeable difference in the quality of my connection after upgrading them to higher-quality cables, specifically, these: http://www.monoprice.com/Category?c_...&cs_id=1052502 & http://www.monoprice.com/Category?c_...&cs_id=1021603 .
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That is rather odd. In order of likelihood, the possibilities are: 1) shitty Cat5 cable, 2) shitty NIC, 3) shitty router, 4) horribly misconfigured IP stack. If you have access to another computer for testing, that could rule out half of them. If it happens on the 2nd computer, that would rule out possibilities 2 and 4, if it does not, that would rule out possibilities 1 and 3.
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Also, unless your router and laptop are quite out of date, upgrading to a cat7 cable would be a good idea either way. http://www.monoprice.com/Category?c_...&cs_id=1052502
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