[olug] OT

[Charles.Bird]

I was just on cox east today, I was getting 3Mb



On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 9:27 PM, Aric <aric at omahax.com> wrote:

> As far as Cox.
>
> I have a single Motorola Surfboard 5101 with Cox Premier.
>
> One will do a consistent 16-20ish mbit down and seems burst to about 26ish
> mbit.
> EG your favorite Linux distro torrent consistently at least 2 MByte per
> second.
>
> Lately though pass few weeks or so it seems to drops to about 12 mbit
> during
> peak times.
>
> It hard caps at about 1.6 mbit up but it snaps to that speed.  I think the
> power boost up to 2mbit is only for a small fraction of a second so that it
> appears that you have an instant 1.6 mbit.  IDK
>
> ......Dimmit you gave me wood hoping to find new speed tiers, I have had
> this for 3 years.
> I am still not happy that they nerf'd the free 4x512kbit news group access.
>
> -Aric
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of
> Dan
> Linder
> Sent: Saturday, April 04, 2009 11:32 AM
> To: charles.bird at powerdnn.com; Omaha Linux User Group
> Subject: Re: [olug] OT
>
> What was/is the make and model of your old and new modems?
>
> My Motorola cablemodem is only about 12 months old so I hope it's
> compatible
> with the new speeds...   (Of course that assumes I can afford to pay for
> the
> new speed tiers...)
>
> Dan
>
> On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 10:54 PM, <charles.bird at powerdnn.com> wrote:
>
> > Seems odd indeed, however, I know they are upgrading everything and even
> > rolling out new docsis
> > ------Original Message------
> > From: Jack
> > Sender: olug-bounces at olug.org
> > To: OLUG
> > ReplyTo: Omaha Linux User Group
> > Subject: [olug] OT
> > Sent: Apr 3, 2009 10:42 PM
> >
> > I've gotten an email from Cox that I am one of a select group of
> customers
> > for
> > whom they are magnanimously giving, free of charge, a brand new cable
> > modem.
> > Mine is apparently very old.
> >
> > I actually got the modem by Fedex a week or so ago.
> >
> > Then a few days ago, I got a recorded message telling me to hurry up and
> > actually hook the darn thing up (I hadn't yet, and don't know if I want
> > to).
> >
> > Has anyone else heard of this?  It seems out of character for Cox to
> > actually
> > give stuff away.
> >
> >        Jack
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