[buggzy702]

Originally Posted by NLVgal

One can only hope, Hughie, but typically jumps in performance are followed swiftly by a rate hike.

My last bill disclosed rate hikes, effective this month. When it comes to Cox, you've gotta read the small print in every bill.

[yellowsnow]

Originally Posted by buggzy702

My last bill disclosed rate hikes, effective this month. When it comes to Cox, you've gotta read the small print in every bill.

Rut Roh.... My bill went up from $112 to $147. Spent the afternoon shopping for ways to get it lower.

SO...yes there is a rate increase!!!

[OmegaSupreme]

Originally Posted by yellowsnow

Just did a speedtest and I am getting 350 and right now paying for 300 so the service is good. Ping was a bit slow at 9ms. Upload was 30.

I did just learn they offering 1G service for not much more than what I am paying now.

Ping was a bit slow at 9ms????

You very clearly aren't aware of average ping rates. 9ms is very darn good, but it's likely not accurate.

There are much more accurate online tests than speedtest.net

[Eric3452]

I'm paying for 300mbs service but only pulling 230. Originally, I signed up for Gigablast only to be told after the fact that Cox doesn't even have a modem/router that can handle it.

[airics]

I have the 2.4/5. Router. On WiFi 2.4 I’m getting about 110. On 5.0 about 180. Upload at 10.8. Ping 7.0

[PinkString]

Originally Posted by yellowsnow

Rut Roh.... My bill went up from $112 to $147. Spent the afternoon shopping for ways to get it lower.

SO...yes there is a rate increase!!!

Was this for both TV and Internet? Ours had went up by around $35-$38. So we dropped the TV part totally. We decided we like the rate drop much better.
We now use the digital antenna for the TV's and it works really great. And no monthly charge. A win win.

[xusafpilot]

Why does the average home need that speed? Netflix and other services and heavy surfing really does not justify it. Now what may, is metering of internet services. I should call COX and have them downgrade my service. I can easily remember in the old days of dial up and remember the early days of broadband when simply buggy 1mg was considered broadband back in the mid 1990's.

[clutchcargo777]

Originally Posted by xusafpilot

Why does the average home need that speed? Netflix and other services and heavy surfing really does not justify it. Now what may, is metering of internet services. I should call COX and have them downgrade my service. I can easily remember in the old days of dial up and remember the early days of broadband when simply buggy 1mg was considered broadband back in the mid 1990's.

I have 50mb and can stream 4k to one tv, regular hd to two others and surf the web on two phones AND reply to this message on my laptop. No lag whatsoever.

Unless hosting a website, no one would ever notice the difference between 50mb and gigablast. The real bottleneck is at the web sites end. How much bandwidth allowed per session. Much lower then your local access allows.

[beachhead]

The wife uploads a lot of graphics files, so the upload speed is important to us. I agree, we aren't effectively using the download bandwidth, but it's nice when we have the older grandkids and their phones and other devices sucking the internet down while they are here..lol.

[Hughie]

Originally Posted by OmegaSupreme

Ping was a bit slow at 9ms????

You very clearly aren't aware of average ping rates. 9ms is very darn good, but it's likely not accurate.

There are much more accurate online tests than speedtest.net

Yeah, ookla is the equivalent of credit carma vs fico. Kinda tells you what you wanna hear.