Internet drops randomly and frequently
So for a while now i’ve had random drops in internet while gaming at night which wasn’t too bad. however, starting about 2 weeks ago these drops are happening throughout the entire day and effecting ...
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This sounds like it could packet loss unless you're really using up all of your bandwidth.
Since your modem seems to think it's still connected when you get drops try running a test with a utility that can give you packet loss stats.
There's a ton out there. I've been using mtr and PingPlotter Free.
Slower speeds aren't really a great indicator of connectivity. You will see varying speeds if you're actively using your connection or are doing a speed test to servers that won't keep up or aren't a Cox to Cox connection. If it's consistently slow without packet loss and you're not actively using your bandwidth it might be a capacity issue which Cox should in my opinion increase for your area.
