When you run speed tests what do the results show? The advertised speed for the premier package is 36 Mbps. I'll only rarely get this but the usual speed for browsing or playing games is acceptable. Again this data throttling only happens when downloading large files or groups of files and always between 1.
The speed is a relatively constant at 4, KBps and always at the same time across multiple connections Steam, SOE, etc.
I am hardwired in with an Ethernet cable. There is no wireless router at all. Here is a speed test result with no other internet activity, run through your websites "internet tools" section. I am experiencing the same issues. When I try to stream video, Watch youtube videos, transfer files via P2P for work, upload or download files via FTP I get service interruption for 1 to 2 minutes.
I have read about COX's Traffic Shaping and their used a couple tools to determine that this is in fact what is happening. Using ShaperProbe you can see for your self. In a move that's basically baiting the FCC and Congress to see if they will act, Cox announced that it's going to experiment with rather aggressive traffic shaping, granting priority to bits that it feels have a great priority.
Why Cox gets to describe what gets a priority and what doesn't seems very questionable. Their employees and company reps will deny deny deny that they are actively throttling and shaping your internet connection. Since I've been a customer with cox on and off for the last 9 years I have NEVER received the full bandwidth speeds that have been advertised. Quoting an article from without attribution about something that we briefly experimented with and never fully implemented doesn't prove that we're throttling traffic.
And if we were, it wouldn't cause a "service interruption" when it kicked in. We will update this article if we receive a response. Masthead credit: Ilnur Khisamutdinov. Masthead credit: Ilnur Khisamutdinov 22 comments interactions. Load Comments User Comments: Recently commented stories Jump to forum mode. Add your comment to this article. You need to be a member to leave a comment.
For one thing, if our deregulated Internet is handling the Covid surge so well, why is Cox finding it needs to ration upload capacity? This should be unnecessary. Again, we heard more times than we could count that the net neutrality repeal and FCC lobotomy requested by telecom lobbyists would result in waves of investment and near magical outcomes.
Yet here, instead of investing in the necessary upgrades to handle the added load, Cox is throttling the connections of entire neighborhoods that already pay an arm and a leg for bandwidth Americans consistently pay some of the highest prices for broadband in the developed world. Worse, they're doing so in a way that's entirely not transparent, and likely would have violated the transparency requirements in the FCC's net neutrality rules, had we not demolished them at lobbyist behest and in stark contrast to the will of the public.
Granted this is happening because, as we warned all along, mindlessly deregulating US telecom doesn't magically result in spurred investment and Utopia. In large part because when you eliminate regulatory oversight of a broken, monopolized market without embracing reform or competitive policies , telecom giants always just double down on bad behavior.
For ISPs that means higher prices, stifled investment, worse customer service, and more of the kind of non-transparent behaviors US consumers have complained about for decades.
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Thank you. Filed Under: bandwidth , excessive usage , fcc , net neutrality , regulations , throttling Companies: cox. Subscribe: RSS. View by: Time Thread. I imagine that Starlink will find itself at or near its maximum capacity right off the bat. There is a huge need for fast cheap satellite internet to get the established players off their behinds and actually invest in their network.
ISP's have always claimed that excessive use hurts your neighbours, and now Cox has taken action to ensure that it does. Cox is just taking action because their strategic reserve of bits is running low.
Isn't that why we needed usage based billing in the first place, because Internet is a limited resource like any other utility?
What's old is new again. This is how cable used the local loops for years. They were full of bs then, and they are now. They play it off like airlines and overbooking which is a bs business practice to begin with , without any of the actual overbooking. Ignoring the injustive of it, I thought the point of collective punishment was that those punished would know who got them in trouble and would then "discourage" those people from misbehaving again. I thought the point of collective punishment was that those punished would know who got them in trouble and would then "discourage" those people from misbehaving again.
Well, to authoritarians one individual screwing up is a failure of the peers to ensure compliance with their shared authority. Another thing about authoritarians is they hate spending the effort to enforce a limited scope punishment against a single individual. Worse, if they fail to punish all involved, then a higher authority can and often will punish them for their failure. Yet another thing about authoritarians is they expect problems to be handled at the level within the hierarchy it occurred in.
If the problem gets elevated to a higher level, then that higher level is within it's right to do whatever in it's capacity is the fastest means of correcting the problem. Even if it means harming the lower levels. As the levels below have failed to deal with the issue their needs and concessions are irrelevant. What you said, but there's also the case - as is common in schools - where the majority of people being punished are troublemakers, or bullies harassing a smaller set of victims.
Everyone gets punished to build solidarity or camaraderie. It never works. Bullies are never indebted to their victims for getting everyone punished.
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