Cox Internet speeds increasing?

Wow, great to see some positive energy up in this forum. Thanks!  Welcome 

You do know that 100meg isn't top tier service, right? 1,000 meg service is rolling out across the country.

Says who/where? Are you talking about Cox? You would have to employ  DOCSIS 3.1 to get anywhere near to those speeds. Besides, it doesn't matter what the last mile is if your ISP doesn't keep their peering and bandwidth agreements completive. Its like getting the speed limit on your street raised to 100MPH.

Yes, I know that some services (i.e. Google fiber which is in only three cities, and FiOS which is no longer being developed with Verizon's focus on its cellular network) do offer speeds in the 1,000mbps range. I wish that cable companies and other providers had more incentive to offer better services at prices that were affordable, but sadly that isn't the case and we do not have enough competition, especially in OKC. Maybe some day we will have access to that kind of speed. But for now, I am happy that Cox is expanding its network and giving me a speed upgrade. I honestly can't afford anything more than their "essential package" but can be grateful nonetheless. 

See http://highspeedgeek.com/america-gigabit-internet/ for cities with gigabit internet services. 

I received the same email, and a subscriber to the Ultimate package. My emails states....In the spirit of providing you the best service possible, we'll be upgrading your Cox High Speed Internet so it's faster than ever before – With top speeds up to 100 Mbps! In just a few short weeks, this automatic speed increase will power all of your devices so you can stream HD videos, download music, upload photos and more…even faster.

would it be possible to confirm when this will actually happen and what the upload speed will be?

Wizard, the representative that I spoke with on the phone didn't give me a timeline (though I didn't ask), but this is my understanding:

• Cox's lowest tier, its "Essential" category, increased speed to 5 Mbps (Megabits per second) download/1 Mbps upload, from 3 Mbps download/768 Kbps (kilobytes per second) upload.
• The "Preferred" tier increased to 25 Mbps download/5 Mbps upload, from 10 Mbps download/1 Mbps upload.
• The "Premier D2" tier is now 25 Mbps download/3 Mbps upload, from 15 Mbps download/1.5 Mbps upload.
• The "Premier D3" tier moves to up 50 Mbps download/10 Mbps upload, from 15 Mbps download/1.5 Mbps upload.
• Cox's "Ultimate" tier is also now available, promising download speeds of 100 Mbps and upload speed of 20 Mbps.

Thanks for the info, KipK! Is it possible for you to give us detail about why the changes were made (i.e. due to improved infrastructure like fiber in OKC, or simply a change in the offerings by Cox). Just wanting to know if Cox is keeping itself in a position that say, 5-10 years down the road (or hopefully less) they could offer fiber to the home. 

The infrastructure improvements to support it have been going on for as long as I've been here. The last-mile, really the last-few-miles, of our hybrid-fiber-coaxial network got a major overhaul about ~5 years ago (at least around my area, I wasn't privy to a lot of national info until fairly recently ), and we're finishing up headend upgrades this year.

As far as the reasoning behind it, I couldn't really comment. I just know that it's a nationwide effort to increase/optimize bandwidth and make our speed tiers consistent (except for Ultimate, which, for the moment, will be 150mbps down in some areas and 100mbps in others (and no, I don't know why )).

How do I know if I have Premier-D2 or Premier-D3? My bill and my account pages just say Premier. I am in OKC.

Will there be any change to the Data Usage caps for each tier??