Lousy support
I have been a Cox customer (phone, TV, Internet) for 13 years and until recently have been thrilled with COX support. For the last almost 3 months I have been having horrendous email issues. I have multiple calls in, have spoken to at least a dozen techs and the problem STILL isn't fixed. What I have been told over and over and over ad infinitum is that the problem will be fixed in 24-48 hours so now after roughly 2200 hours I can't send a message reliably, or receive one without having to go to webmail which has started to be ridiculously slow. I am a consultant and I live on email, and this situation is costing me money, not including the 10s of THOUSANDS of dollars I have paid to Cox. What has been suggested is that I; A. Do all my email correspondence on Webmail B. Buy a different machine (I am on an iMac running Yosemite) C. Wait 24-48 hours for it to be fixed (NOT!!!!!) Point A would require that I somehow setup the forty or so mailboxes and dozens of rules I have created over the years to Webmail where I would be exposing my emails to web operations which are OH SO SECURE (?!?!?!?!) Point B Buy a Windows machine. I would rather rub shards of glass in my eyes! After 35 years in the IT world as an Engineer/Team Lead in testing, development and support for small companies like AT&T, Lucent, Bell Labs, Merck, CBS, HBO, J.P. Morgan, etc., etc. I no longer have the patience or the cast iron stomach to deal with windows. To Windows folks, if you blast me it goes right to the trash. I don't even read it. Besides I don't have the cash to replace machines every 2 years to support a bloated OS. Point C YEAH, RIGHT! Yes this a major flaming post after 3 months of the issue not being fixed. Oh yeah; specifics: iMac Intel Core 2 Duo @ 3.06gHz 12G of RAM Yosemite 10.10.3 Apple EmailVersion 8.2 (2098) Sometimes I get email the rest of the time I get the can't connect, server is offline dialog. Same thing with sending although a lot more often. I have tried everything that Cox Tech support has asked (except buying a machine) meticulously. Been told more than once, usually at Level 2 support that Cox knows about the issue and it is on THEIR end, not the Mac. Anyone else seeing this? Sorry for the tone of this post but as I said it's frustrating as ***!! jb ps My wife has a Mac Mini less than a year old and it has never connected to Cox but she's fine with Webmail.3.3KViews0likes6CommentsMonths of poor internet performance; what will it take to get an actual repair?
Here's the deal, Cox. The problem I'm having is a combination of 902MHz ISM ingress and an exceedingly poor gain structure. And probably an "over-subscribed node", but that's just a hunch. It's not my modem, it's not the wiring in my house (I own an RF network analyzer), it's not downstream signal levels (8.1dB-2.5dBmV), it's not downstream SNR (>37.9dB). It is the Cox equipment and network. How do I get in touch with someone at Cox that knows what any of these words mean? I don't want another "tech" to come out and lop off $50 of Canare F-Conn, calling them "junk" only to have me go back and replace the radio shack grade F-conn's he installed in their place with the wrong sized crimp die. I don't want to have to explain why a directional coupler is different than a power splitter. As a matter of fact, I don't want -or need- to see the Cox tech at all, because the problem is not on my property. Who do I need to talk to?2.3KViews2likes9CommentsCox Customer Service Complaint: Gryphon Router
I picked up a new router at 3:00 pm on 09/24. I talked to Cox cable online chat prior to buying it, and they told that I would need to enable bridge mode on my wifi. So I get the router, had to follow the instructions to enable bridge mode. I go to the IP Address, Admin Tool -- turns out the login info. isnt the default login. I go on online chat for another 3 hours, where they try to troubleshoot and change the password. No one had any idea what they were doing. They told me to call a technician, after I wasted 3 hours. I had even asked if it would be better to call instead, they said no. So I end up calling anyways, I called 2 times on my cell phone, disconnected after 5 minutes, each time. Called another few time on the home phone, disconnected. Luckily, one service rep was able to help me do a hard reset for 90 seconds and I was able to get the login info to enable bridge mode. I spent another hour on customer service just for them to tell me there was an outage in my area and that they couldn't help me until it was done. So I waited till it was over, tried connecting the router, yet it still was unable to connect. SO I call again, talk with a service rep, she tells me to reset it, it doesn't work. Tells me to call a technician, tells me I'll get charged $75 if it's not Cox's problem... that I had to pay $10 a month to avoid this. No help, at all. I hung up, spent the next 3 hours trying to to disable bridge mode... FYI the Ethernet cable said it had no IP address. Finally I figured out to hard reset the WiFi. It worked, I disabled the bridge mode. You know what, I plugged the router into the modem, and it worked perfectly. I wasted 10+ hours following Cox's instructions, and no one is properly trained to give me the correct information. 10 hours when all I had to do was plug it in to the back of the Modem. I am being appalled by your customer service.1.4KViews0likes1CommentZombie email!
Deleting Email is very time consuming on mobile devices. What is worse is that deleted email whether in webmail, iPad, iPhone, returns to the in box a day later. I see forum posts on this same topic that are 9 years old and the problem still hasn’t been addressed.1.3KViews0likes3Commentserror moving emails to other folders
When I try to mark the 20-30 daily spam emails as spam I get an error message that reads “The message you requested is unavailable. It may already have been deleted or moved from this folder.” I actually get that message when I try to delete a message as well. Also, I don’t think the SPAM FILTER is working at all. EVER!1.3KViews0likes0CommentsConstant outages in our area that go on for hours at a time, I’m new to cox - is this something that happens all the time?
We are still new to cox (about 2 months now) and have had at least 5-6 outages in our area since we started service....is this common? Seems to happen when I need internet access the most and it’s getting to be super frustrating. Is there a refund system in place for not being able to access my Cox services? It wouldn’t be a big deal if it was just once or twice but now it’s becoming ridiculous.816Views0likes1Comment