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genzoulv @ 12th May 01:08AM:
[NV] Speed Upgrade

Anyone hear about a speed upgrade this summer for Las Vegas? We're still @ 12 down while the people in Cali got 20 last year.
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madden2k5 @ 12th May 01:15AM:
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Well i live on the other side of the states, but if yalls highest package over there is still 12mb down only i say by the end of the year you should see a newer higher package. But I don't work for cox, and I can't promise that it with all internet companys moving to more faster internet speeds and packages withen the next 1-4 years.

Anyways new speed packages being added is all about the demand in areas, and the competition between other companys to keep up with each other. So if your in a select area with say cox only isp giving such speeds, then there not in a rush to give you higher speed packages, because the demand just isn't there.
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dvd536 @ 12th May 06:11AM:
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said by genzoulv :

Anyone hear about a speed upgrade this summer for Las Vegas? We're still @ 12 down while the people in Cali got 20 last year.

I think you're 15[20mbps with PB] for premiere.
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genzoulv @ 13th May 05:02PM:
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said by madden2k5 :

Anyways new speed packages being added is all about the demand in areas, and the competition between other companys to keep up with each other. So if your in a select area with say cox only isp giving such speeds, then there not in a rush to give you higher speed packages, because the demand just isn't there.

Yeah we're screwed out here pretty much. Cox is a monopoly. The only other option we have is Embarq 10 meg DSL (which is available in limited areas), so you really have no choice but to go with Cox if you want fast internet and Embarq is too cheap to run fiber. I was hoping Verizon would bring FIOS here so Cox would have some real competition.

said by dvd536 :

I think you're 15[20mbps with PB] for premiere.

Nope, we're still 12. We've had 12 for a year or so now. My friend in San Diego has Cox and they gave him two speed upgrades last year. First to 15 with 20 power boost then to 20 with 25 power boost. Mainly because of FIOS I'm sure. That's why I wish we had some real competition out here for Cox. They really have no reason to upgrade us.
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bbeesley @ 14th May 11:02AM:
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said by genzoulv :

They really have no reason to upgrade us.

genzoulv I can tell you from behind the scenes that we in engineering are continually working to upgrade the network in the Valley to provide not only the fastest speeds (as you already pointed out we are already faster than the 'other guy' but I say, why stop there? <grin>) but also to improve the quality of the network to ensure that every subscriber is getting the best quality and performance for their money.

I can't disclose when we will be releasing the next speed upgrade - the marketing folks really get bent out of shape when engineering steals their thunder - but rest assured, we haven't forgotten you and we are spending boatloads of money on upgrades even as I type this.

We appreciate you being a Cox customer and I promise we will continue to work hard to deliver the best products at the best value we possibly can.
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almex @ 14th May 01:55PM:
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said by dvd536 :

said by genzoulv :

Anyone hear about a speed upgrade this summer for Las Vegas? We're still @ 12 down while the people in Cali got 20 last year.

I think you're 15[20mbps with PB] for premiere.

genzoulv is correct. See the blue box at the bottom of »ww2.cox.com/residential/lasvegas···rnet.cox
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robl27 @ 14th May 07:07PM:
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i hope you won't forget about the rest of us too. one reason why im with you vs embarcaugh.. is the upload.

look forward to the next upgrade

-Rob
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tubbynet @ 15th May 12:56AM:
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said by robl27 :

i hope you won't forget about the rest of us too.

rob, per the cox page pulled up when i entered "mary esther, fl" as my location, your premier speeds are on par with the rest of the docsis2 offerings from cox. you have already been upgraded to a speed higher than what the op has for speed in the vegas area.

»ww2.cox.com/residential/gulfcoas···rnet.cox

you know, its kinda like the boy who cried wolf. you complain enough about everything, and no one will take you seriously when you do have a valid complaint....

q.
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genzoulv @ 15th May 05:20AM:
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bbeesley
I can't disclose when we will be releasing the next speed upgrade - the marketing folks really get bent out of shape when engineering steals their thunder - but rest assured, we haven't forgotten you and we are spending boatloads of money on upgrades even as I type this.

Well, it would be really nice if you'd put us on par with LA and San Diego. Last years upgrade was very meager (from 10-12 meg). Would be great to see a real upgrade this year. Also, if you think about it, if Cox were to do that then that would make Embarq just about have to upgrade to fiber. Nothing wrong with some healthy competition and price wars. Great for us consumers. :)
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dvd536 @ 16th May 12:41AM:
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said by genzoulv :

Not necessarily. we have 15mb and i don't see qworst upgrading to fibre.
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Time @ 20th May 04:58PM:
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I'm happy with my HSI from Cox. The only other option is Embarq, and let's face it, their service is terrible. Would I choose 1.5 Mbps over premier?HELL NO!
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anon @ 28th May 05:00PM:
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I subscribe to premier with powerboost in my home and I am seeing speeds ~24mbps downstream and ~6mbps upstream via cox local test site (test.lvcm.com)

on other sites like speedtest.net or broadbandreports.com i am seeing speeds to servers across the US ~18mbps downstream and ~6mbps upstream

pretty impressive if you ask me!
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genzoulv @ 29th May 10:14PM:
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Those are just the powerboost speeds you're seeing on speed tests. When you're actually downloading a big file you get that boost for like 30-60 seconds then it levels off at 12 meg. What would be impressive is if we actually got those speeds all the time. :p
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Ikyuao @ 29th May 10:29PM:
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In Wichita, kansas here that speed with powerboost were permanently up to 20 Mbits or more of xMbits above over 20 Mbits of downlink to me and also my uplink speed are permanently up to 3Mbits or more xMbits above of speed too. That I cheated with socket core and TCP socket tweak hack so I can get continuous of permanently speeds without going slow down back to a normal of speed that I confirm this a test with net app monitoring that I were getting up to 3,000K bytes of speed downstream as while I watching a video of naruto of japanese cartoon video show.
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genzoulv @ 23rd Jun 10:00AM:
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Anyone hear anything yet bout Vegas upgrade?

*EDIT* Someone was talking bout a speed preview in another forum post for Vegas and saying they were getting 15MB. What's that about?
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Bit @ 23rd Jun 11:17AM:
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We (OC Cali) just got 20Mb recently. It was 15Mb until just recently and 12Mb last year.
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genzoulv @ 8th Aug 03:09AM:
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Been a few months. Anyone from Vegas heard any new news yet?
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namida12 @ 29th Aug 11:54PM:
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NO, news about any speed increase here in Vegas...

Right now I would be happy if I did not need to reboot my modem 2 or 3 time each day, this started about 2 weeks ago... Tuesday, the 25 I had off and spent the day rebooting hourly...

Yesterday I spent 2 hours in the neighbors home, as they were trying to get on line with a new computer...

Computer was fine, brought it here went on line immediately, tested the Ethernet Cable and it worked. Went back to neighbor's home and still could not connect. Rather than keeping me on hold, cox took the cell phone number and then called and hour later indicating she was connected...

Tonight she has www and Usenet, but I only have www service...

Currently no Usenet service. When I first went on line tonight 7:30 I was able to post a few wallpapers, and now I can not download or Upload to the Usenet...

Checked the status page nothing is being reported as a problem, so it must be me, rebooted modem, reset router, and connected the computer and still no Usenet...

No text, no binaries... Getting 10 on most speed test pages, paying for 12 but »test.lvcm.com/ shows I am getting almost 27 - Can never believe that speed test site the last two years...

Did not enjoy reading that Cox is going to upgrade Arizona to 50, and we are still 50% of their previous speeds...

Most every tech that has visited our area I have spoke with is a very polite individual, but here in Vegas we are currently without the speeds that many areas nation wide have, and the Hotel on the Strip and Convention area have speeds Vegas residents can only dream about for many corporate reasons.

JR
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namida12 @ 30th Aug 04:48PM:
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Tis sunday the 30th amost 2 PM and still no Usenet service on West or East...

Is this service going to be our for several more days?

JR
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CoxTOC1 @ 30th Aug 05:10PM:
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I was just able to remote into my home system and was able to retrieve headers from both the east and west coast servers with out any problem.
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genzoulv @ 13th Oct 08:32PM:
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*BUMP*

Anyone hear anything new yet?
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eric89074 @ 14th Oct 07:16PM:
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Yeah, the news is we ain't getting shit.
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anon @ 19th Oct 10:35PM:
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I think if we get half the speed we should pay half the price... Man up Cox and give us what we are paying for.

Its like buying a 300hp mustang for 30k in new york and a 150hp mustang for 30k in nevada. That crap would never fly but somehow no one seems to care about unfair service tiers except the ones getting screwed.
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LVNeptune @ 25th Oct 02:11PM:
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There is supposed to be an upgrade to the speed to 50 down / 5 up on December 1st. The cost for businesses is $350/month including 8 IP's.
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spacefunk @ 25th Oct 05:01PM:
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said by namida12 :

NO, news about any speed increase here in Vegas...

Right now I would be happy if I did not need to reboot my modem 2 or 3 time each day, this started about 2 weeks ago... Tuesday, the 25 I had off and spent the day rebooting hourly...

Then clearly I have a superior level of service than you since my consistent daily modem signal reboots are accomplished without my help. All I have to do is sit and stare at the modem and connection icon and wait for the thing to finish it's smoke break. I don't remember any clauses in my service that demanded random and numerous connection smoke breaks!

But for me this has been occurring since hmm . . . March in this apartment, and like forever in my other apartment. The sucker just loses link at the modem for anywhere between a minute to 5 minutes. I used to jump into my router controls do a release and renew of the dhcp stuff but I eventually realized that rather than reconnecting me all it did was keep me occupied until the connection came back all on its own. So I quickly put an end to that practice . . now I just go into mouthbreather stasis mode staring stupidly at it till it fully connects

Now this isn't a catastrophic thing for me but it is annoying as hell and it is every single day starting at like 6am thereabouts?

I have the Premier package and the same SB 5100 modem that I got 7 years ago when I moved in.

I think I generally tended to overlook it since I came from NY and Verizon DSL which was the single worst service that I have ever paid for in my life with outages of hours and the same conversation over and over with their reps about how I DO INDEED HAVE THE POWER ON!

Anyhow yeah It isn't that bad here but it is really wearing on me more and more considering the gigantic monthly bill . .
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bbeesley @ 26th Oct 10:57AM:
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said by spacefunk :

I have the Premier package and the same SB 5100 modem that I got 7 years ago when I moved in.

spacefunk, we have noticed that some (not all, so everyone please don't start the 5100s are bad threads) 5100's are having trouble staying stable on the new carriers we have launched.

Moto and Broadcom are investigating the issue but if you would send me a PM with the MAC address of your modem, I would like take a look at the noise levels to see if what you are experiencing correlates to the symptoms we have observed to-date.
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LVNeptune @ 26th Oct 02:44PM:
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Also on my last statement about 48 hours ago they switched frequencies to the 800MHz ranges for downstrem from 600 and 700 ranges. There are now 3 downstream frequencies and are prepping for D3 rollout in December. This will be an interesting Christmas =)
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LVNeptune @ 26th Oct 02:58PM:
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I have the pricing for residential it will be $120 for 50 down and 5 up.
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genzoulv @ 28th Oct 03:54PM:
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You sure Vegas is getting these speeds? Someone said something about AZ getting 50 down and how unfair it was that we're not getting it.

*EDIT* (Here it is):

said by namida12 :

NO, news about any speed increase here in Vegas...

Did not enjoy reading that Cox is going to upgrade Arizona to 50, and we are still 50% of their previous speeds...

LVNeptune @ 29th Oct 04:01PM:
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Yes, confirmed with Cox employees. No confirmed date but it will be early December.
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genzoulv @ 29th Oct 05:49PM:
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So what are the new tiers going to be for commercial? 50/5 for top but what about the other two and how much will those cost?
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warl0rd @ 31st Oct 03:43AM:
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50Mbit eh? Looks like I need to shift some bills around.. w00t!
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Time @ 31st Oct 11:24AM:
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I hope you're right, I'd drop the extra cash for 50/5 in a heart beat.
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genzoulv @ 31st Oct 03:34PM:
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He's right. I called Cox to confirm yesterday. The new tiers are going to be 50 for top, then 18, then 10. I forgot to ask prices though so I'll prolly call back again today to do that.
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anon @ 4th Nov 05:54PM:
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Do you think you would see any stability differences or peaks if you upgraded your modem to a docsis 3.0? I am guessing now since 3.0 I believe uses a diff approach so it would prob switch back to 2.0 and still keep the same performance.
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eric89074 @ 5th Nov 03:10AM:
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»[NV] Cox HSI Las Vegas NOW w/Docsis 3
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anon @ 5th Nov 10:51PM:
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Great, now I'm going to have to grab a D3.0 modem ^^
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warl0rd @ 9th Nov 07:27PM:
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Just got off phone with cox. they tried to tell me that a docsis 2.0 modem would work with the new tier. *sigh* After a couple more calls I was told that the new Ultimate tier was going to be 89.99 but that it wasn't going to be offered in las vegas as far as they knew. They rattled off a host of other places that was getting it however.
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genzoulv @ 10th Nov 06:24AM:
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Well, I've called twice and both times they did tell me that we're getting the 50 meg in December. I don't think two different reps would both have wrong information. I also noticed on Cox's LV website they have removed the 1.5 tier. The lady I talked to told me 10 was going to be the lowest from now on. Everything is looking to be coming true. Who did you speak with? Did you speak with someone from Vegas or did u get sent to some call center in another state? Not sure why they would have told you different.
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warl0rd @ 10th Nov 01:00PM:
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Unfortunately I didn't think to write the person(s) names down. but both a billing person and a tech told me this. I am hoping they are both wrong, and it wouldn't surprise me with the way the company is run for that to be the case.
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anon @ 11th Nov 12:31PM:
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Hmm today I am getting a constant 2400KB/s across about 5gb, before I would top out at around 1600KB/s. I hope it stays this way.

Using sb6120 docsis 3.0 modem on the premier tier.
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madden2k5 @ 11th Nov 02:06PM:
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Well have you been bonding channels for awhile? or did it just start?
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anon @ 11th Nov 03:01PM:
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It has been bonding for about a week. It would powerboost to 80-100 for about 30 seconds and slowly drop off to my normal speed of 1600KB/s. Now it power boosts up to about 38 for about 30 seconds and drops off to 2400KB/s but it stays there so I am happy about that.
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madden2k5 @ 11th Nov 03:10PM:
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Well there probably still doing testing and tweaking since you just started getting bonded channels. So don't be shocked if it changes some more in the coming weeks.
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warl0rd @ 11th Nov 04:33PM:
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I peg at 2.7MB/sec. But throttle it back to 20.5Mbit to reduce latency from saturation
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smokozuna @ 11th Nov 05:13PM:
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Got my speed upgrade today. I have the Preferred Tier and my download speed yesterday was 1MB/s now it is 1.4MB/s, I am near St. Rose and Maryland Pkwy in the 89183 zip. Thanks Cox!

They updated there website today also!
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warl0rd @ 12th Nov 12:31AM:
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yea they updated it.. But no showing if 50mbit... lol
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genzoulv @ 12th Nov 05:21AM:
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What update are you talking about? The one I mentioned earlier? I just checked right now and all it shows is 16 meg and 10 meg just like when I checked it 3-4 days ago. Also, I've not noticed any boost in speed yet. I still max out at 1.6mb/sec. Are you all getting faster speeds because you're using docsis 3 modems or because they've upgraded your area?
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eric89074 @ 12th Nov 06:58AM:
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»ww2.cox.com/residential/lasvegas···rnet.cox

Look at the bottom of the page. It now says 10mb for preferred and 18mb for premier.
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smokozuna @ 12th Nov 11:50AM:
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Correction, I average 1.35MB/s Down on the Preferred Tier with a Motorola 5101 modem.
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genzoulv @ 12th Nov 06:08PM:
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Wierd. Wonder why they put that up before they gave everyone the speeds. I'm not getting 18 meg yet.
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anon @ 12th Nov 08:37PM:
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I am currently getting (via speedtest.net)

21.67 down and 2.72 up...hoping for faster when I get the new docsis 3.0 modem in the mail ^^
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anon @ 12th Nov 08:37PM:
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Noted that my service here in downtown Vegas was disrupted for a few hours earlier, it's back on now so I decided to get right back into my "normal" usage and...

It's like, way faster that's for damned sure. ;)

Was getting a solid 14.1 Mbps consistent (about 1.8MB/s sustained) on the Premiere service I have, but now it's showing a consistent 21.3 Mbps or higher (average of 2.7MB/s sustained, sometimes peaks to 3, then slowly comes back to that 2.7MB/s solid).

I'm a happy camper, I suppose. I also noted they raised the price of the Premiere from $64.95 to $67.95 this month on my bill but, given the speed I'm cool with it at the moment.
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eric89074 @ 12th Nov 09:25PM:
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You won't get faster than than the new official speeds unless you're one of the lucky few testing the 50mb tier.
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daniel21 @ 12th Nov 11:17PM:
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What's going to happen to the 1.5 tier?
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cconlow @ 12th Nov 11:40PM:
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About 6:30 PM Nov 12 - just for info I am at Boulder and DI on the Preferred Tier.

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genzoulv @ 13th Nov 02:37AM:
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Just noticed I'm getting 2.3mb/sec stable. Guess I got my upgrade today. Very happy. Thanks Cox! Did they give us more upload speed? Only says what the download speed is on the website.

*EDIT*

Did an upload test on testmy.net and got 1.6Mbit as the result. So, still the same.
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JCinVegas @ 13th Nov 10:52AM:
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Picked up a new DOCSIS 3 modem after reading these threads. The Powerboost is awesome if you have full gig-e network. I see spikes into like 13MB/s then it settles down to ~3MB/s.

Model Name: SB6120
Vendor Name: Motorola
Firmware Name: SB6120-1.0.1.8-SCM02-NOSH

Last Night:

This Morning:

Thanks for the heads up guys!
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namida12 @ 15th Nov 12:30PM:
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JCinVegas,

What router are you using?

Suggestion of a wired router, I have a wireless but have wireless disabled...

JR
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69dawg @ 15th Nov 01:18PM:
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With this new speed coming in Vegas can anyone who has NO COX video services tell me how much they are paying for powerboost service? I am paying $67/month but on the website it states new customers can get premier with powerboost for $57/month. It does not state anything about needing vidoe as well.
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SteveLV702 @ 15th Nov 03:18PM:
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said by JCinVegas :

Picked up a new DOCSIS 3 modem after reading these threads. The Powerboost is awesome if you have full gig-e network. I see spikes into like 13MB/s then it settles down to ~3MB/s.

Model Name: SB6120
Vendor Name: Motorola
Firmware Name: SB6120-1.0.1.8-SCM02-NOSH

Last Night:

This Morning:

Thanks for the heads up guys!

wow thats really nice I am in Las Vegas with Cox on Premier Tier and using a DOCSIS 3 modem and I have horrible speeds and on a Corporate/Business Acccount.

madden2k5 @ 15th Nov 03:27PM:
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Well you have a serious problem. you need to call cox, and get this fixed.
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SteveLV702 @ 15th Nov 03:29PM:
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had them out many many times replaced modem done everything... My brother-in-law is a Cox Technician and he has even came out on his own personal time and looked...... They can't figure out whats going on other then maybe extremely old wiring in the building....
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madden2k5 @ 15th Nov 03:36PM:
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Well if your borther-in-law works for them. I would def get him out there sometime to replace all wiring in the building if possible.
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SteveLV702 @ 15th Nov 03:37PM:
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ya problem is the owner of the building won't approve it... We have already tried...

So when lease is up in February probably be leaving..
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madden2k5 @ 15th Nov 03:48PM:
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No question on leaving imo. If he wont give you permission of rewiring the place, then imo not good owners.
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CoxTech1 @ 16th Nov 10:52AM:
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Unfortunately this is an all too common problem with multiple dwelling units. Often times a problem will be identified with wiring between our tap and the residence which is owned and maintained by the building owner/property management. Provided they will give us permission we are more than willing to service those lines but often they simply won't give us permission which puts our customers as well as ourselves in a tough position.
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JCinVegas @ 17th Nov 01:00PM:
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said by namida12 :

JCinVegas,

What router are you using?

Suggestion of a wired router, I have a wireless but have wireless disabled...

JR

I'm using a Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH. The initial setup sucked because the web interface is complete garbage and it needed a firmware upgrade because the shipping firmware has bugs. After that it's been working flawlessly.

Hopefully in the future it'll have DD-WRT support like my old Linksys WRT54GS did.
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smokozuna @ 17th Nov 02:35PM:
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Cox raised their prices today to Preferred $55 and Premier $68.
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sheezyfromba @ 17th Nov 03:41PM:
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are you serious....wow late upgrades, and constant rate hikes.. looks like that non existant competition with Embarq is working out real well.
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genzoulv @ 17th Nov 04:24PM:
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Those prices are for people without TV/phone service or with?
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smokozuna @ 17th Nov 05:10PM:
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Whoops, that's without. My mistake, sorry about that. Anyway I just called Cox and upgraded from Preferred to the Premium Tier for the next 3 months for $44.99, Yeah!!!
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genzoulv @ 17th Nov 08:41PM:
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Just got this E-Mail today from Cox:

"Cox is happy to announce an increase in your speed!

As a Premier customer we are increasing your download speed from 12 Mbps up to 18 Mbps*! Cox High Speed Internet is now up to 50% faster than before. And stay tuned for Cox High Speed Internet Ultimate with download speeds up to 50 Mbps coming soon. Only from Cox, where Las Vegas gets real high speed Internet.

Also, you are eligible for Cox Security Suite Plus powered by McAfee."

So yeah, for any doubters looks like 50 is coming soon! :D
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warl0rd @ 17th Nov 08:47PM:
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Thanks for the update genzoulv! I am sure we are all waiting anxiously for this lol
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genzoulv @ 18th Nov 12:03AM:
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Well, if anyone wasn't sure now they are! :P
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Time @ 18th Nov 12:16PM:
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I received that email as well, but I haven't been home to check and see if the upgrade went through as of yet.
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primetrouble @ 19th Nov 07:18AM:
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Dec 9th
Cox Ultimate
$129.95
50/5
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madden2k5 @ 19th Nov 01:39PM:
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Thats cool for you guys getting them faster speeds. Im surprised cox hasn't made a even bigger announcement about the release of this, if in fact they are going to start selling that speed package on the 9th of december. Maybe they have plans to announce it withen the next week or so.
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warl0rd @ 19th Nov 01:40PM:
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Woot! Cant wait for the increase. 20mbit is nice. 50 is better! The price doesnt exactly feel nice. But such is life.
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madden2k5 @ 19th Nov 01:45PM:
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said by warl0rd :

Woot! Cant wait for the increase. 20mbit is nice. 50 is better! The price doesnt exactly feel nice. But such is life.

Yeah price is alittle high. But every internet speed package is more there. So i guess with premier tier being $67 a month they have to almost double the price for the Ultimate tier.
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eric89074 @ 19th Nov 05:36PM:
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No way am I paying that much for 50/5. I'd be willing to pay $100 but that's it. I predict this tier will bomb hard.
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anon @ 19th Nov 08:06PM:
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I also just got an SB6120 and haven't seen any major speed increases. Why such a difference between tests at speedtest.net and say, Cox (»test.lvcm.com/)? In fact, I've tried 2 computers and 2 browsers clearing cache each time and within a 10 minute period, I had readings all over the place.
My best was from speedtest.

dvd536 @ 19th Nov 10:45PM:
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I wish cox would sell a tier like Cablevision's BOOST where you can run a personal webserver on a speedcapped but open port 80.
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yes i know about cox biz services and running on alt ports.
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genzoulv @ 19th Nov 11:04PM:
Re: [NV] Speed Upgrade

Hardcore people will still play for it, but yeah that is pretty expensive. Hopefully they'll offer some kind of deals to drive the price down some. I guess it will depend on how many people get it in December.
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namida12 @ 20th Nov 01:23AM:
Re: [NV] Speed Upgrade

What are you running for a router? Have you done a zipcode test in dslreports, remember they archive your 3 fastest tests results!
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genzoulv @ 20th Nov 01:45AM:
Re: [NV] Speed Upgrade

Anyone know how this price compares to say FiOS 50 meg service?

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Just looked. It's $139.95/mo with home phone service and $144.95/mo without. So Cox would be cheaper then them.
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warl0rd @ 20th Nov 02:55AM:
Re: [NV] Speed Upgrade

Me - I am running a BSD gig-e/wireless firewall

»pfsense.org/
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anon @ 20th Nov 07:42AM:
Re: [NV] Speed Upgrade

I'm using a Linksys Wireless G WRTG54GS router. I wonder where Cox New Orleans is in the upgrade process. I thought after Katrina when they rebuilt that they might be ahead of the game but it doesn't appear so.
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dvd536 @ 21st Nov 12:59AM:
Re: [NV] Speed Upgrade

said by genzoulv :

Anyone know how this price compares to say FiOS 50 meg service?

*EDIT*

Just looked. It's $139.95/mo with home phone service and $144.95/mo without. So Cox would be cheaper then them.

not really. i'm betting you get waaaaaaaaaaay more upload with fios' 50mbps service than cox's current 5mbps on their 50mbps tier so its apples to oranges really because the D/U on both tiers aren't the same.
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genzoulv @ 21st Nov 01:31AM:
Re: [NV] Speed Upgrade

Yeah, FiOS does offer more upload. It says up to 20 meg for the 50 meg plan. Most people really care about the download tho. Least Cox is cheaper, but not by much.
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Time @ 21st Nov 09:21AM:
Re: [NV] Speed Upgrade

I'm still running a SB5120, and I'm not noticing any upgrade in performance, even after several modem reboots.

Have the upgrades not gone live yet, even though they've sent out emails and are advertising faster speeds?
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anon @ 21st Nov 01:09PM:
Re: [NV] Speed Upgrade

Ya, I too am getting results all over on speedtest.net with this new modem. Testing with a Vegas server I get about 12-14Mbts, and some others like Phoenix, Utah and LA I get around 24-38Mbts. That is a large range. Cox needs to compete harder in Vegas.
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anon @ 21st Nov 02:58PM:
Re: [NV] Speed Upgrade

Exactly TheSant.....that's what I'm finding. Which one to believe?????? You'd think Cox's test on their equipment would want to show higher speeds but it's just the opposite. Just like politics, who do you believe?
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madden2k5 @ 21st Nov 02:57PM:
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said by TheSant :

Ya, I too am getting results all over on speedtest.net with this new modem. Testing with a Vegas server I get about 12-14Mbts, and some others like Phoenix, Utah and LA I get around 24-38Mbts. That is a large range. Cox needs to compete harder in Vegas.

Thats because your leavin cox's network, and once you do that speedtest results are more likely to change from one server to another. It all depends on the load on that server, and its available bandwidth.
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madden2k5 @ 21st Nov 03:34PM:
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said by Beerguy :

Exactly TheSant.....that's what I'm finding. Which one to believe?????? You'd think Cox's test on their equipment would want to show higher speeds but it's just the opposite. Just like politics, who do you believe?

Another thing, alot of speed test from sites such a speedtest.net, and speakeasy.net they show the powerboost speeds. So running a speedtest on a site like Testmy.net will show the true speeds your getting after powerboost.
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dvd536 @ 21st Nov 10:59PM:
Re: [NV] Speed Upgrade

said by madden2k5 :

my modem must be capped at 2mbps because thats all i ever get at testmy.net
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madden2k5 @ 21st Nov 11:08PM:
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Well when they advertise download speeds up to 20mbps, its really download speeds up to 2.5mb's. Yes all them big numbers look nice on sites like speedtest.net but Testmy.net is really showing you what your getting after your powerboost speeds are gone.
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dvd536 @ 22nd Nov 09:42PM:
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said by madden2k5 :

Well when they advertise download speeds up to 20mbps, its really download speeds up to 2.5mb's. Yes all them big numbers look nice on sites like speedtest.net but Testmy.net is really showing you what your getting after your powerboost speeds are gone.

I never got good speeds there even before PB was a glimmer in comcasts eyes.
I get better from the OOL FTP, and thats real.
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madden2k5 @ 22nd Nov 09:58PM:
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Well we also gotta factor in that the testmy.net server is in ohio, and your more west coast. So that can explain things also. Im just saying everyone wants to think i have such great speeds, but all in all you have decent speeds at best. Most of all ISP's advertise as if your getting up to 20mb's but really its 2/2.5mb's.

To really know your true speeds you need to run a test that atleast is 50mbs in size, so you atleast get a good ideal on what your getting.
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warl0rd @ 23rd Nov 12:18PM:
Re: [NV] Speed Upgrade

Just to clear some things. 20Mbps is 20 Mega bits per second. which roughly translated is 2.5MBps or 2.5 Mega Bytes per second. Referencing speeds in Megabit allows more granularity as well as the sense you are getting more much like something that is only 2.99. I have attached a wiki article explaining it more clearly unless I failed.

»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_rate_···onfusion
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