[olug] Cox Issues Was: Cox sucks

[Dave Weis]

On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, Sam Tetherow wrote:
> Because people want to buy a speed rated plan, but providers cannot
> support that speed as dedicated bandwidth. They have to oversell in
> order to be profitable.

Agreed, if you want something that you can completely saturate 24x7, I 
would sell you a T1 or something for $100-200/megabit. It fits the normal 
usage model to periodically use your connection but have it be fast when 
you do.

> While the more tech savvy customers would understand things like 95
> percentile billing or burstable connection rates. To 95% of residential
> customers they only get Xmpbs and the only thing they really get is the
> bigger the X the better the connection. It is just like when they buy a
> new computer, as long as the number before the GHz is big they are happy.

Make sure you get lots of gigabytes too!111 :-)

Life is way to short to explain percentile billing to a "normal" user.

dave


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>
> Dan Clough wrote:
>> Luke -Jr wrote:
>>
>>> On Wednesday 18 July 2007 20:28, thelarsons3 at cox.net wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Also:  http://www.cox.com/policy/limitations.asp
>>>>
>>>>
>>> wtf? Cox caps their "12mbit" transfer at effectively 200kbit (60 GB/mo)??
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>> I've gone from slightly peeved to fully pissed off.  Why are they so
>> chicken as to proudly display "12Mbps!" on billboards, but they hide the
>> real truth in a page that only geeks (proud geeks) would read?
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