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re: Cox internet speeds ?
Posted on 4/27/17 at 11:06 pm to King George
Posted on 4/27/17 at 11:06 pm to King George
quote:
I'm not a broadband internet expert but I'm gonna go ahead and call bullshite.
I'm just stating what the guy said, he worked for a contractor through Cox. Not for actual Cox. So was he full of shite? Probably.
But like I said, I could careless what Mbps I have as long as I don't have buffering when I stream.
Posted on 4/27/17 at 11:12 pm to Tres7139
first check your modem and router to see what speeds they are capable if you didn't get it from cox
often people pay for speeds but don't have the infrastructure at home to actually get it
that said if your only getting 9 down you need to call a tech out asap.
often people pay for speeds but don't have the infrastructure at home to actually get it
that said if your only getting 9 down you need to call a tech out asap.
Posted on 4/27/17 at 11:16 pm to King George
quote:
I'm not a broadband internet expert but I'm gonna go ahead and call bullshite.
the farther away from the node the slower speeds you can pull with coax technology. They call it the last mile which depending on your company could be just 50 feet of coax or a few thousand feet and a few hundred homes sharing one node.
cox ant trying to really lay down any fiber
Posted on 4/28/17 at 12:04 am to StraightCashHomey21
I dropped it down to the 15mbps package today.
Then, picked up this from Best Buy today.
Currently, it's working like a charm.
Then, picked up this from Best Buy today.
Currently, it's working like a charm.
Posted on 4/28/17 at 1:05 am to Tres7139
I love to chime in on things after the fact, so why not here lol.
1. As stated somewhere in thread - bits per second, not bytes. 8 bits = 1 byte. If you pay for 150Mbps then on a file transfer it could show as 18MBps.
2. Cable is generally shared bandwidth and you're sold a possible value. Let's say you and your neighbor are only cable customers in the neighborhood with a 500Mbps connection. You are told speeds up to 150Mbps, but neighbor is torrenting and streaming his arse off hogging 450Mbps. You get 50Mbps.
3. A speedtest is fine, but test to your provider. It's one hop - your exit (house) to their network. Testing somewhere else on the internet introduces multiple other hops (networks) and is meaningless to diagnose.
4. Speedtests on internet are flawed. Generally you're testing max throughput - which is fine when you load up a huge transfer and get blazing download speeds. But in general, it's latency (how fast your devices talk/listen) that makes the difference.
5. Cable is dependent on how many upstream and downstream channels in the technology. DOCSIS. Different providers offer different capabilities.
I see a lot on this board about just upgrading equipment - which may or may not be prudent - but it's not the end all. Sometimes it's not even the provider or network that's the issue.
1. As stated somewhere in thread - bits per second, not bytes. 8 bits = 1 byte. If you pay for 150Mbps then on a file transfer it could show as 18MBps.
2. Cable is generally shared bandwidth and you're sold a possible value. Let's say you and your neighbor are only cable customers in the neighborhood with a 500Mbps connection. You are told speeds up to 150Mbps, but neighbor is torrenting and streaming his arse off hogging 450Mbps. You get 50Mbps.
3. A speedtest is fine, but test to your provider. It's one hop - your exit (house) to their network. Testing somewhere else on the internet introduces multiple other hops (networks) and is meaningless to diagnose.
4. Speedtests on internet are flawed. Generally you're testing max throughput - which is fine when you load up a huge transfer and get blazing download speeds. But in general, it's latency (how fast your devices talk/listen) that makes the difference.
5. Cable is dependent on how many upstream and downstream channels in the technology. DOCSIS. Different providers offer different capabilities.
I see a lot on this board about just upgrading equipment - which may or may not be prudent - but it's not the end all. Sometimes it's not even the provider or network that's the issue.
Posted on 4/28/17 at 7:36 am to Korkstand
quote:
But the actual world in which digital things operate is analog. Also, your modem converts the digital signals into analog signals for transport over the coax. That's what modem means -- modulator-demodulator.
Your connection can be impacted by all sorts of things that make it "kind of" work. Really it's the protocols and error correction that makes it sort of work with a bad signal rather than a go-nogo situation.
I know how QAM works.
Posted on 4/28/17 at 9:23 am to Tres7139
you stream alot it appears?
COX will throttle your speeds (which is illegal); its as simple as that
they will deny throttling, but its always fascinating to me how my internet will magically be at full strength after the "tech" resets the modem - lol
COX will throttle your speeds (which is illegal); its as simple as that
they will deny throttling, but its always fascinating to me how my internet will magically be at full strength after the "tech" resets the modem - lol
This post was edited on 4/28/17 at 9:24 am
Posted on 4/28/17 at 10:20 am to BigD45
quote:Then you should know that there is a whole spectrum of "kind of works" between "it works" and "it doesn't work".
I know how QAM works.
Assuming the tech tested at the tap, I don't know why anyone would call bullshite if he says OP can't go any faster.
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