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Upload speeds drop <1mpbs constantly

For months now there are periods when my upload speeds drop down to 0.1-0.3mbps. During such time phone service becomes also unusable if needing to enter any phone menu driven digits, and any tv channel change becomes impossible to do.

I've complained about this constantly either in app, phone or through X (twitter) when it happens and it usually then miraculously fixes itself for another few hours after wasting 2 hours until it again reverts back to being unusable.

There seems to be no scheduled date or time to fix this issue. Nor will anyone advise me exactly what the issue is. Nor will Cox send someone out to my house to troubleshoot (indicating I guess they know where the problem rests).

Hopefully someone here is willing to investigate and provide an actual answer when I can actually expect to get the service I pay for.

 

Esteemed Contributor III

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First thing to check is if the problem happens to wired connections as well as wifi. If wired too, then try bypassing the router and connect direct to the modem to test you speed. Remember that you have to reboot the modem each time you change what it is connected to. If that is also slow, or you have a Panoramic gateway or some other combo, then look at the signal levels. How you see the signal levels depends on what model device you are using. What model modem/gateway do you have? Last, since you mentioned you have TV to, how does the coax connect from the street/pole to the different rooms you use coax in? What kind of splitters and how many? Are you using a amp?

PS. I would remove the second photo. It shows your public IP and doesn't show anything useful.

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One of the screenshots is wifi, the other (bottom) is hardwired.

Panoramic router. Coax is ran from box outside to right by the tv and router. One splitter only in line. Removing splitter has made no difference (already tried that).

Don't believe the problem is with equipment or anything here because anyone I can talk to says that "Yes I understand the troubles have been going on for days. I regret that our field teams have not yet provided us with an estimated restore time."

I'm really just trying to see if someone from Cox here can actually look into the details more and provide a real answer rather than the low level assistance through means so far.

Are these the signal levels you asked about? Current upload is hovering around 6mbps so will recheck at various other times to compare values when upload is non-existent and when it's fine.

 

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Is it a outage as per their outage website?

 If you want to talk to Cox, contact them via the methods in the welcome thread. This forum is for users to help other users. However you probably won't get any more info. They will probably just schedule a technician. If you want to troubleshoot here, post your signal levels from 192.168.0.1 > user;admin password;password > Connection > Cox Network. Last time they were seeing T3 errors on your gateway. To see those try going to troubleshooting > logs > event logs, but not all gateways record them.

New Contributor III

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It varies. Sometimes it will say no issues, other times it will say they're working on it.

Texting UPDATE to 269898 yields the response "Our technicians continue to work to resolve the problem in your neighborhood. Currently there is no estimated time for when the service will be restored".

Yet at the same time I get the response from their standard text #34358 that the issue has been taken care of and to contact "help" again. So feel like I'm going around and around in circles.

Didn't realize these forums were effectively unmonitored by Cox. I assumed they'd have someone browsing here occasionally to help in a similar fashion to how some used to on DSLReports.

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Hi, I apologize you are having trouble with our service and getting inconsistent answers about the status of a possible outage in your area. Please contact us privately. Our email address is cox.help@cox.com Please be sure to include your name, full street address, and a link to your forum post.

Greg

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You upstream levels are too low. They should be in the 40's. A splitter should raise it 3.5dB so removing the splitter would only make the issue worse. I suggest having a technician out to look at the issue. 

Esteemed Contributor III

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I see from your previous posts that you had this issue years ago. Was that resolved? If so, how and when did the problem come back?

New Contributor III

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I believe they ran new fiber between 2 local switches.

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If all devices, including phone service is acting up, you will need to contact Cox technical support. If it's a wiring issue IN your home, unless you have Cox Complete Care, there may be a service charge for repairs. if the issues is delivery of service to the home, then Cox will repair for free. 

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