What area are you in? I'm in So Cal, and cox is experiencing and "outage" in my area...I think, but can't confirm that they either have a core network issue or they have a system capacity issue. In either case, they say it's an outage and that it will be fixed. they've been saying that all week. I have internet, but it's really laggy and breaks up from time to time. Best way to tell if you have a similar issue is to open up your command prompt in windows (start search--> type CMD) in the black window that pops up type 'ping -t www.google.com' . this will send a continuous string of packets one a second to google and give you a reply. the reply at the end will say time=xxms. If you get no reply, the packet was dropped. if you get a time over 30ms, there is something slowing you down. in my case i'm getting like 30%-50% packet loss, so the internet will run then just stall for a second then run...it's extremely annoying. I have resorted to using a mobile hot spot for work applications. it causes stuttering...all sorts of stuff. It's actually the reason i'm reading the forum today.
