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Bandwith speed issue
So I have been doing a Ookla speedtest at various times of the day over the last week. My download speeds have been about 27-30 mbs and upload speeds of 60+ mbs. Months ago my download speeds were easily in the 70+ mb range, often higher than that. By the way, I am on the 500 mb plan. I have tried to figure it out with no luck. Checked my router to see if anything has changed. Nothing. Disconnected my VPN, hardly made a difference. Checked it on WIFI on my laptop, then on my desktop with a wired conection. No change, download speeds about the same. Basically nothing has changed that should account for this difference. Thinking I may be throttled by Cox, I went to my data usage in my account, where the "other" category accounted for 41% with a week and a half to go, but last cycle it was 14%??? Fortunately I am not having any issues viewing, or doing what I want on the internet, but I am concerned in the fact I am not getting NEAR what I am paying for. This is also the first time I have ever seen my download speeds being consistently beaten by a good bit by the upload speeds. I do not know when this started, I do not routinely check my speeds on a regular basis. Any thoughts?
mikar59
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1 year ago
So lets add to the mystery a little bit. For one week or so, checking at various times of the day starting at 7:00 am, my download speeds have been in the 28-30 mbs range as I mentioned above. About 15 minutes after this first post, I did another speedtest and all of a sudden I was running 92 mbs and 84 mbs with the VPN on. That is a helluva coincidence, but it gets better. 5 minutes after I got this reading I did yet another speedtest and this time it popped right back down to 30 mbs once again. Any ideas? Literally 5 minutes apart and my download speeds went down by 2/3's, just like they jumped 2/3's after my post. This is strange as all get out.
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CurtB
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2K Messages
1 year ago
My reported download has gone from 597Mbps to 33Mbps. Reported upload is 54Mbps. I'd never heard of an upload being faster than the download either. Reported upload earlier this evening was 3Mbps. I'm seeing the fluctuation in upload speed too.
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jrodatz23
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1 year ago
My thoughts are that cox sucks cox. Every month, same issue. Literally an outage at LEAST once a month. I pray this company goes bankrupt. I'm switching as soon as I'm approved for AT&T fiber. Cox is the only IP I've ever had this issue with.
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