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Cox Pods or Mesh System?
Cox came out and said at least some of the wiring in my 2500 sq. foot house needs to be redone (its only 12 years old, but apparently thats old?). Anyway they are setting up a work order to come out. In the meantime I'm thinking of dropping cox TV entirely and going with a streaming service like Roku. I have 4 TVs currently, which are often all used at once. There's also probably 30 other small wifi devices(cell phones, outlets, light bulbs, etc.). I have panormaic wifi gigiblast, but I think it still needs to be boosted to get good coverage everywhere if I go entirely wireless and start streaming on all the tvs. I have a lot of questions: So...I'm hoping to get out of this for maybe $300.. Is it better to buy a couple cox pods, or am I better off buying a mesh network like Nest or TP-Link or Eero? And which one? If you suggest a non-Cox mesh system, which one, and is that something someone with *some* tech experience can hook up? The cox tech guy suggested I get an AV person to come out and hook up a mesh system, and he was talking about running ethernet cables, etc. between the mesh routers. From what I've seen it looks like they are mostly wirelessbut I don't know.I'm trying to avoid running cables everywhere, is that really necessary to get good speed and coverage? Any advice is appreciated. I kind of read as much as I could fin on here about Mesh wifi but I was hoping for more recent information. Thanks.789Views0likes7CommentsRe: Cox Upload Speeds and Amazon Device Delays
Okay, thank you.There is of course an outage happeing now too so service is even more unreliable, but I was having issues 4 days ago, so i'm not sure it is related to current outage. Anyway, now I have to wait until current wide area issue is resolved before they will send out a tech. Thanks for your help though.4Views0likes0CommentsRe: Cox Upload Speeds and Amazon Device Delays
It actually shows up around 90 kbps. So kilobytes.... a lot of websites pull up initially with a message "Hmmm… can't reach this page",and it takes a second for them to load or I have to refresh them and I get lots of error messages on sites that require input (expedia, ebay, etc.) or the pages just hang for awhile and then go to a gray screen. the download speed usually shows up as 600+ Mbps. I have the top tier service (the gigablast one) YOUR INTERNET SERVICE Internet Gigablast Up to 1 Gbps download Up to 35 Mbps upload 1.25 TB (1,280 GB) data plan22Views0likes10CommentsCox Upload Speeds and Amazon Device Delays
What is the standard Upload speeds? (I have cox panoramic wifi) On the speed tests I am running it keeps coming back with upload speeds of less than 1 MBS (like closer to.8MBPS or even less). All of my amazon devices are not functioning properly (there are delays or they seem to time out), and when I make submissions on line, forms also time out or give me error messages. I've unregistered and reconnected the alexa devices and they are still sluggish to respond, or just respond that there is an error when make vocal commands. I've also re-installed windows on my desktop, and that doens't seem to help either. My download speeds are seem find, but it just seems like all these problems are due to the upload speed not being high. Everything was working great up until a couple days ago. Is there anything else I can try to fix on my own, or is this a tech visit? Am I correct to think that delayed repsonses or even errors on my Amazon devices are due to slow upload speeds?Solved619Views0likes12Comments