Obvious upload speed cutoff time!
Cox has decided that instead of upgrading their network to handle more traffic they will drop my area's upload speed to under 1.00Mbps right at 4pm on the dot every day. This ends at roughly 10:30pm....
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I will fill this in as well. Its absolutely ridiculous that we pay almost $100 a month for a service that year after year just keeps deteriorating. For the past 4 years we have had this same issue with random but frequent enough upload speeds been cut down from 35mbps to about 3mbps. Have used multiple combinations of modems and routers, have had technicians come in to check this and that. They have even changed lines to the house and to the poles behind the house and the issue persists. Sometimes they blame the equipment, sometimes they blame the weather or service outage, but from time and time the common denominator is the *** upload speed. How i wish ISP would have not screwed google over expanding their fiber service because this stuff just keeps getting worse and COX's inability to upgrade their infrastructure is finally catching up to them.
I have gone through the same exact issues. New equipment, new lines, new cat cables and yet the problems persist. I have no doubt in my mind that they are 100% cutting upload and download speeds simply because they cannot adequately handle the amount of traffic during peak hours. Please file a claim. It's all we can do at this point and if they get enough complaints they wil be forced to do something about it or risk major fines or worse with the FCC. From what I hear the new head of the FCC isn't messing around with this kind of stuff and take it quite seriously.
I cannot wait for gigabit Fiber to be available here even if its with AT&T. They really did screw the public over and we all should have access to fiber by now since most of the major ISPs took government money in the 90s to upgrade and provide reliable high speed internet to all or to at least future prep their networks for more reliable speeds and services. Instead they pocketed most of that money and left the customer to deal with the problems and lack of options.
Cox just needs to add more nodes to be able to handle more traffic. It's as simple as that.
Hope you have better luck in the future.
