TV going blank at random and sometimes re-appearing, sometimes not
I have never joined a forum in my life, but am totally frustrated by Cox for the last year+. I have a "new" cable box (which in Cox's world, Ibelieve means it is under 5 yrs old), the Explorer8642 HDC. This is the 3rd box tried in a series of replacement boxes. 13 yr customer that didn't have many problems at all for like 9 or 10 years. Then suddenly our black Motorola box (10 yr old box/technology?) started to intermittently stop sending a signal to the TV. We'd be watching a show and it would go blank. Sometimes after sitting there, it would pop back up after a minute or two or three. Sometimes I would have to pull out plug and let it do it's boot-up thing. Got a replacement, same type box and after a short period of time, low and behold, same behavior. Was told they "know about some issues like that". Weird thing about it is, that if we were recording something and watching at same time when it happens, it seems to record the show right through these dark periods. Leads me to believe that it's definitely not a problem of the signal not coming down the cable into my home, but rather it's just not sending signal to TV during this time. To placate me Cox told me to get the "new" all home box and just use itfor the one TV. They would graciously waive the $60 install fee (which wound up on my bill in $20 increments until I noticed). They brought the new box out, but it wasn't the petit little high tech box in the showroom, it was a huge clunker that was obviously somewhat old(but hey they weren't charging me for this tech upgrade, so I didn't complain). Seemed to work ok for about 2 months, but then here we go again. My last hour long tech phone call got a great guy who seemed to really invest himself into fixing my problem and he had me ultimately go in and set the power off to "manual" which made a massive improvement....for about 3 weeks. Again this was a "known issue" with this box. I thought it might be heat related, so I pulled everything away from the box, but to no avail. Well, now here I am on a Friday night wanting to relax and unwind, but no real cable service. This makes me really begrudge the fact that my bundled Cox bill crept from $120 mo to about $200 since Nov 2011 (a 66% increase). I don't know where that additional $$ is going, but I do know it wasn't a capital expense for new, high tech cable boxes. Is anyone else having these intermittent signal interuptions? Is there hope out there for me of a lasting solution?15KViews0likes11CommentsChannels missing in Tucson - phone support not accepting calls
So it appears there's some kind of outage in Tucson, but there's no information to be had. Calling phone support gives a "can't take calls now", and no recording with any other information. Online there's not status information whatsoever. Live chat just provides "All agents are currently assisting others". So what's up? And what about providing information to your customers?3.3KViews0likes4CommentsCable Box Explorer 8240HDC EXTREME ISSUES
I've had Cox cable and internet now for a little over a month and am COMPLETELY unhappy with the service I am receiving and paying for. The internet is perfect and fast, but the cable is an entirely different story. Almost every single hour, exactly 60 minutes, the cable is completely unwatchable. The picture will just freeze over and over, or continue to loop the same 10-15 seconds of a show, or just black out all together. I'll get online, order a signal reset and wait for it to boot back up, then 1 hour later it is doing the EXACT same thing. I have called Cox, spoke with technical support, followed all instructions to the T. I even went as far as removing the cable splitter and replacing all cables. I agreed to a 2 year contract with you Cox, but I will NOT continue to pay for such sub par service, no matter what. I have emailed Cox multiple times, called them multiple times, yet still no resolution. This is hands down some of the worst customer service I have ever seen before. If someone is paying $100 a month for services, they better be getting their money's worth! It has gotten to the point where I would much rather watch Netflix or rent a redbox as opposed to watching this ridiculous excuse for television. If anyone else has been having these issues, please respond and tell me if resolution was reached! I am in San Diego, CA if that helps.3.2KViews0likes2CommentsUnexplained Interruption the 12th of EVERY Month
Is anyone else having problems with their television service the 12th of every month? When I call about it they say there isn't any service interruption on my account and they aren't doing any system updates. For no reason they can seem to find, my cable shuts off for 30 minutes to an hour the morning of the 12th day of every month. Can anybody think of a reason why this is happening? I always pay my bill at least 1-2 days before the due date so that's not it.2.8KViews0likes2CommentsDVR not working; cnF9 error
My DVR box (Cisco 8742HDC) stopped working around 1230 PM. I checked the cables (use a splitter with my panoramic wifi modem) and tried to reset it from the COX website, but received the "unable to reset receiver, try again in a few minutes" message. I tried again about ten minutes later, no change. I unplugged the power source from the box, waited two minutes then plugged it back in. It cycled through to the "Welcome to COX" screen but never actually made it to the program guide. After trying this a third time, my areahad a thunderstormwhich caused apower outage for about an hour. Once it returned, the box went through the usual boot up process, but now is frozen with the "Welcome to COX. We're loading the Interactive Program Guide" screen and the front of the box reads the "cnF9" error code(or config as I have seen in other posts). It has been like this for the past2 hours and still has not returned. Every once in a while the "Please wait" blue dots that form a circle will move, as if to show progress. I have had this box about four months after having the previousmodel for four years. That box "died" after having a similar issue where it would not record and then it froze on the DVR recordings screen. I lost all my recordings that time and am mentally prepared to lose the recordings on this DVR again. Is it time for another box?2.7KViews0likes3CommentsNew Cable Services, Through New Cable Lines without Cuts
It's been over 20 year from my last cable services hookup here at the Florence Tower, services has change a little now the customers are given the chance to save money by doing their own self-sufficient converter box hookups, but it took 3 to 4 days for the services to come out an turn on all my Advance TV channels on while, and handed me a extra converter box with two extra remotes with only a HDMI output, that did nothing at all when I hook it up but I brought it back in to knock off the extra rental charges to find out it was not ever recorded on my account, sure sounds strange. I use the Favorite selection to add all the channels that are coming in from the ones that present I need a subscription. I don't know if I'm getting over 200 of my favorite channels, but some of the other residents in the building are sure kept up to date about what I'm watching on both the TV and Internet could use a security check up on the outside.2.5KViews0likes2CommentsConstant Fuzz
I accidentally bumped into the channel up/down button on the TV and it changed the channel on the TV, not the Cable box, causing the only thing to appear now is static. I read/assumed just set the TV back to channel 3/4 but that doesn't do anything as well....I know this has to be a simple fix and don't want to waste the technicians time.2.4KViews0likes1CommentCables Cuts & Night Life Parties and Afterhours Listening To MC seems to be over after 12:00 A.M. on 09/27/13
September 27, 2013 between 12:00AM to 1:00 AM my afterhour's party got disturb when my MC channels cut off, then their were sounds as if the cable was being cut into by hackers. You know there have been some unknown men who offer cable like an street deal for drugs I just don't want to be supporting drug trafficker entertainments by hacking my cable services lines. Know the Apartment management give an 48 hours notices before starting any kind of work that might cause a shut down on the cable broadcasting, is their going to be some hours of missing services made up for?2.4KViews0likes2CommentsError message XRE 03059
Hi, since the cox outage June 8, 2021 we have not been able to access all of our channels. This is truly frustrating as we pay our bills in full every month. If this is not resolved soon I would like a credit on our bill. Please help resolve this issue.1.4KViews0likes0Comments