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network outages

There used to be a page that would display network outages or problems that was available for viewing that covered the entire Cox domain. Here in Virginia I could check for outages in California. What happened to that page? Is it still available? How do I get it to display?

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Hi cporet, we do not have a page on our web site that displays network outages.

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What was the page before?

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We had a different system that tied our website to our internal outage notification. When we discontinued that program, the outages were no long available. This was discontinued quite a while back. 



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StephanieA said:
This was discontinued quite a while back. 

When it was discontinued when you changed the notification system, why didn't Cox build a new one? It would save you a ton on calls into the call center and save customers time. Having a message saying "You are in a outage area" doesn't help when that outage system will call a whole node in outage even if only part of it is. This causes people to wait days to troubleshoot a problem because each time they call it, they are told it's related to a outage when it is not.

I think it's funny Cox can run a entire private home security branch but haven't replaced a broken system for...7 years? Why would I trust Cox to track a burglary of my house when they can't even track a outage on their network?

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The outage page used to be called System Status.  I feel Cox discontinued it because it had a negative connotation.

"...outages were no long available?"  Yikes!  That says a lot.  Nobody knows when something is down?  Nobody is monitoring systems and services?  Even after being notified of an outage from a customer's phone call should prompt some notification.  Do you need automation to type a blurb on a webpage?  What about scheduled outages?  Can't you type those on a page?  Geez Louise...get proactive.