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Cox to Begin Throttling Multiple Protocols: At least I’ll have FiOS Soon

Seth — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:09:18 +0000

According to a new report by Torrent Freak, Cox will soon begin throttling all FTP, Bittorent, Usenet, and possibly other forms of “Non time sensitive” traffic. Although this may or may not effect me as a business customer, I can safely say that I am exited to see Verizon FiOS trucks outside my house stringing fiber onto the telephone poles. In a couple of months I’ll be able to switch.
Cox to Begin Throttling Multiple Protocols: At least I’ll have FiOS Soon

Speed Test

Seth — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 05:42:45 +0000

I put my internet connection through another speed test at around 2AM tonight/this morning, so I thought I’d share my results. It’s important to note that these are power boost speeds, not my average speeds. Basically Cox only gives these speeds for about 30 seconds, after that you are back down to what you are paying for. In my case that would be 10mbs down and 2mbs up.

Fast.

Static IP Issues Solved

Seth — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 01:55:41 +0000

When I upgraded the main switch on the network in order to support multiple internet addressable web servers I noticed that whichever system I connected first could access the internet while the following ones couldn’t. I decided to call Cox’s support line to see what the proper procedure was for using multiple IP addresses. As it turns out the less-than-intelligent person who installed my modem did not set it up to use multiple IP addresses (nor did he know that I was receiving a business connection instead of a residential connection). The tech support agent figured the problem out and resolved the issue very quickly. I should have my secondary server up and running within a week.

Major Upgrades

Seth — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 05:55:59 +0000

What are the odds of the following: My friend and I doing major upgrades to my home network and then 30 minutes later Cox upgrading their systems to support higher speeds and killing my connection. The total downtime for my website amounts to 3 hours.

Seriously, this happened.

When I was frantically running around my house at 1am trying to get the website back online I eventually wound up disconnecting everything and connecting my laptop directly to the cable modem. I was able to connect. I thought that was odd and so I decided to run a speed test. The results: 30mbs download and 2.5 mbs upload. The download speed was almost as high as a DS3. That’s insane. After two hours of troubleshooting the internet connection once again cooperated with my LAN and business as usual resumed. (so much for getting my normal amount of sleep).

What I figured happened is that Cox rolled out updates to their infrastructure once again without so much as a warning email. This is the second time this has happened to me. The upgrades aren’t the issue, it’s the fact that they don’t tell anyone that irritates me. My connections speeds (after I burn out the ‘power boost’) is a very healthy 10mbs down and 2 mbs down (aka exactly what I am paying for).

I’m now going to call it a night and let my body rest so I can wake up sometime tomorrow (morning?).