[olug] Gigabit Internet

Thu May 9 20:36:52 UTC 2013

"Last payment to cox hasn't been made and they are not asking"

Be careful they have done that to me twice.  When I moved to switched from
Cox to TCONL in about 2000 I canceled my service with Cox and everything
seemed OK.  I added Cox in about 2004 and everything was OK, I had no
problems.  I moved in 2007 and when I called to get service again they
said I owed them $660 because I didn't return my modem from 10 years ago. 
I settled with them by paying them $100 for the modem......

Then last week I got a call from a collections agency saying I owed Cox
$30.  I told the Lady on the phone that I have Cox and pay my bill every
month.  Apparently this bill was from 2007.  They must have thought there
were 2 different customers in Omaha named Aric Aasgaard.

My point is that it is probably a good idea to get that bill removed by
their acknowledgment of poor service so they don't ask for it in 10 years.

> Your right I'm wrong here. I meant to say to the SOHO not residential.
> From earlier this year dozens of emails and calls about multiple drop outs
> using fiber. Cox cut some costs at first but after a while it became
> apparent that Cox fiber wasn't up to it. A few thousand dollars later went
> back to coax and relocated and it was night and day difference. Last
> payment to cox hasn't been made and they are not asking ..... wonder why.
> As far as the available bandwidth not sure but maybe it was the package we
> went with? We certainly didn't get the available bandwidth although all
> indications pointed to the fact the bandwidth was there.
>
>
>
>
> Roger Sheldon
> Storage Engineer
> wk 402.777.7901
> cell 402.889.2585
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of
> Aric
> Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2013 3:41 PM
> To: Omaha Linux User Group
> Subject: Re: [olug] Gigabit Internet
>
> Justin Reiners:
>
> Yeah, I'll gladly pay $150 a month for gigabit.
>
> Both my Cox home and my work Cox Business (about a mile away) connection
> when down Monday night / Tuesday morning at midnight.
>
> My Cox home internet has gone down 4 times in the last 30 days.  They seem
> to be planned outages because they have been at midnight and for about 5
> min. (according to the quality RRD graph in pfSense).  I with they would
> send me an email warning me of the maintenance.
>
> I am likely upgrading my wireless access point from an Asus RT-N12 to an
> Asus RT-AC66U soon.  I am thinking I could use the wireless bridge feature
> of the RT-N12 to connect my 20-30Mb Verizon Wireless 4G LTE hotspot to an
> additional WAN adapter on my pfSense box for fail over.
>
> "The internet is like a drug, I would pay almost anything for it"
> Yes, and I really hate paying $10 a gig when I go over 4 gig a month on
> Verizon Wireless phone.....  But I'll still pay it like a crack head. The
> internet is a powerful drug.
>
> Roger Sheldon:
>
> "Fiber is the way to go but I think the way cox manages the fiber to
> residential is .... less than desirable."
>
> Cox does fiber to residential?
>
> "It's still a shared network I believe so you prob won't see all the
> bandwidth allocated."
>
> When I had TCONL cable the sharedness? of the connection was terrible.  I
> would have 600ms+ ping times to just about anywhere from 6pm until 9pm.
>
> From my experience for at least the last 5 years I have been getting at
> least the advertized bandwidth at my tier.  If when I had a 50Mbit x 5Mbit
> connection and it was working, I could always ftp from a data center at
> 50mbit and upload at 5Mbit.  I also almost always had/have low latency.
>
>
>
>
>
>> man, I don't think that price is bad, My bill is over $140/mo for my
>> COX business 50M, (just internet), my company pass well over $2000 a
>> month for 100M fiber. The internet is like a drug, I would pay almost
>> anything for it :P
>>
>>
>> On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 8:29 AM, Kenny Kant <akennykant at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I am within the coverage area and saw Century techs spending quite a
>>> bit of time in our neighborhood utility boxes.  This is very exciting
>>> to see this type of work being done.  However personally I can't
>>> imagine paying these prices for a residential Internet connection.
>>> So we will not be installing this until prices drop.
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPad
>>>
>>> On May 3, 2013, at 6:21 PM, "Aric" <aric at omahax.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> > Does anyone have the Gigabit fiber that Century link is doing yet?
>>> It
>>> > looks like they are offering it in their TCONL area of Omaha.  I
>>> > will likely me moving 2 or so miles this summer to get it.
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