What is a normal amount of packet loss I should expect with COX internet?
I recently had cable internet installed to my home. From the get go I have been experiencing packet loss. I don't know what the most trusted test of this is but I've tried several including cmd ping and pigplotter. The results usually range from 0-5% with spikes over 30%. The dslreports.com smoke ping uses 3 servers to ping your ip. After 12 hours of testing I'm currently getting 4% average loss from California, 5.5% average loss from Michigan, and 7% average loss from Kansas. Voip is useless, online gaming is virtually unplayable, and the amount of page reloads I need to do while surfing the web seems a bit much. My modem is a brand new Motorola mb8600 with normal looking signal levels. (per the cox employee that looked at them). My first tech is coming out this afternoon and may very well solve the issue but at what point/packet loss percentage is Cox going to just say "deal with it"? Is this the norm???