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On Demand Freezing Up

I've had my share of problems with Cox On Demand like everyone else, but I didn't see any recent posts about my newest issue.  While I try to go through the On Demand menus, it will get stuck on one tab, sometimes for as many as 3 or 4 minutes, but usually between 30 seconds and a couple minutes, and eventually "catch up" and whatever tab I was on will populate, or it will suddenly go through all my frantic arrow movements I pushed at once.  Sometimes it will just black out the screen for a few seconds and go to the general Cox menu, as if I had pressed the menu button.  I power cycled it twice, once unplugging it for about 20-30 seconds, and later once for about 5-8 minutes, and neither of these instances fixed a thing.

Unfortunately I'm kinda used to the bugs, so I just expect them to suddenly be fixed later, but when I'm putting on a movie for my 5 year olds or trying to put something on for company, it's just dumb...  Most haven't learned the patience with the product that I've ended up with...

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I am having the same issue. I select the On Demand button and I eventually get a Program Unavailable icon where I used to see previews and the menus do not work. If I select Channel up or Channel down I briefly see the menu I was waiting to load appear and then the screen is gone and I am on a normal TV channel.

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Hello JackB and Brianf1967,

The issue that you are describing is typically caused by a slow connection between us and the box. This is very similar to how pausing and stuttering works when streaming videos online. The only two things that can cause these slow connections are the boxes or the actual connections to the home. 

I encourage both of you to send us an email to cox.help@cox.com with your full service addresses so we can research and help resolve this issue for you. 

Thanks,

Allan

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