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3 Days with unstable internet
The issue started 3 days ago. The Internet is totally unstable. It is unacceptable, as I work from home. I was initially able to find a Cox hotspot, but then couldn't. All I get from Cox is, "We're sorry this complex network issue is taking longer than expected to resolve. Rest assured, a dedicated team is actively working to restore consistent service. We apologize again for the inconvenience and will continue to provide daily text updates." Really? No one else around me is complaining about having crappy internet service, so I'm not sure if I'm buying into the issue. This is the worst! I am looking for an alternative provider at this point. Customer Service is clueless as to an ETA for resolution. This is the worst ever!
michaellaux 14 days ago Place Internet
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Internet connection throttled
Hello. There have been some days in a row where my Xbox Series X is being throttled. I can see the ping going from low ms to more than 500 ms. All my other devices are working ok. Does somebody with the same symptom and how to approach Cox to ask them to stop throttling my service? Kind regards
miliox0 27 days ago Place Internet
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Internet going down every day
Broken Arrow, OK For the last month, our internet has been going down at least twice a day every single day. Sometimes it's back in 5 minutes, other times it's been down for hours. This started not long after we upgraded our service. Been in chats/calls/ in person at our local center to ask what's going on and the most I got out of anyone was a big fat shrug, and was then told my bill would be comp'd for next month. Finally I got someone to tell me that Cox was doing work in the area - but that's about it. Nothing about if they're installing new equipment or Optic, or if someone was raiding the boxes for copper, or anything other than "working diligently to restore service". If there was work going to be done in the area, then there should have been a letter or something else letting us know, right? I've had to work from home on and off and have had to leave my house to go to the local library in order to even be able to do my job - I work call center essentially, and had to do it from my car so I wouldn't disturb the guests in the library, but this is getting RIDICULOUS. It's bad enough that we're going to have to switch services because we're paying for a service we can't rely on at all from day to day.
ktokoro 2 months ago Place Internet
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See data usage by device?
I went over my data usage for the first time this month. How do I see which devices are using the most data each month? This is such a simple request but I cannot find anything in my online account or the Cox WiFi App.
WishIDidntHaveC 6 months ago Place Internet
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BEWARE of Cox swindling more money out of you.
My credit card was canceled due to fraud. I quickly switched numbers on my account and my bill was paid with the correct card on time. It was not late. I was charged a $30 returned payment fee. This is nonsense. There is no returned payment fee incurred from the financial institution when a credit card is canceled or expired. This charge on my account is ridiculous. Of course if you try to talk with customer service and its not about how you want to add products or spend more money with them the call wait time is ridiculous and the live chat online conveniently doesn't work/is buggy. Such an awful company with retched customer service. My building has free wifi and its sketchy but worth cancelling my account. Good riddance.
DanOmaha14 6 months ago Place Internet
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Constant outages
What is going on with the massive insatiability? The last month each day is a dice roll to see if I get working internet, half working internet, or no internet. Cox is really undermining the "I pay for internet, use internet to make money, pay them for more internet" arrangement. Sooner or later the situation will be insolvent. And the constant "updates" which are just lies at this point, every couple of hours its gonna be a couple more hours.
jamesrgg 7 months ago Place Internet
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Anyone have ACP dept phone # --Representatives should be educated better about ACP and not be condescending
Extremely frustratedand saddened at the treatment and lack of knowledgeby some Cox employees. I called requesting to speak to the ACP dept. I have spoken to them in the past and the gentleman told me there were two specific people assigned to these accounts. I do not know why the agents act like they have no idea what I am talking about, its a secret & refuse to provide the number or transfer. When I then ask for "customer service" I find out later that they say "Oh well I am tech support, not customer service but.... " wait what? So not only you cant help me but you lied. I was transferred 4 times- all agents tried to tell me I was notgoing to get a better deal. **I want to downgrade my service. I can notafford it.** it isnot about a better deal. Not sure what they do notunderstand.It is the whole reason I have the ACP. I only temporarily upgraded while the kids were all home for the holidays. Eventually, I get tto "loyalty & retention" because Im told if I can notafford the bill any longer at the 1G price maybe I should cancel & provideme the local storesaddress to return the equipment. Great way to treat a customer of over 10 years. Finally, I gave up and I did the downgrade myself online (more than half the speed) and now my bill is TRIPLE what it was. Seems dishonest and shady. Why cant I speak to the dept that handles ACP accts? They were so helpful. I should not be treated poorly or talked down to because I have a coupon. Can anyone please help?
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Frustrated_Sing 8 months ago Place Internet
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Why is my CoxWiFi hotspot broadcasted by my panoramic gateway locked?
The CoxWiFi hotspot that is broadcasted by my gateway requires WPA2 password to it. Has anyone had the same issue and how did you resolve it?
peacock32123 8 months ago Place Internet
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3 Months of Multiple Daily Instances of Modem Self-Restarting
I am at a loss here. For the past 2-3 months, I've been having issues with my Panoramic Wifi modem issued by Cox, model CGM4331COM. At least 2-3 times per day, it will restart itself. This has been an everyday occurrence since the issue started. Starts off with losing internet connection to all devices, then the modem will blink yellow, then blink green, then back to solid white. It only takes about 5 minutes to come back online, but the constant daily interruption has become very irritating. Tonight it did something new, which prompted me to create this post; we lost connection and the light turned solid red until I unplugged the power and plugged it back in. We've had at least 5 techs come out to inspect outdoor lines, indoor lines, connection strength, ingress, the works. In the order in which steps have been taken to resolve the issue: A filter was installed on the outdoor connection. We had a pretty badly squirrel-chewed line that was replaced at the pole. There was an outdoor connection leading into our attic that was totally corroded that was replaced. The last tech that came mentioned that he removed a splitter in our attic so that we are directly wired from modem to pole now. In between all of this, we have been advised to replace the modem, and we did (twice). I have tried the online and telephone help options several times. A couple of times, it has restarted itself while I was on the phone or chat with the agent, and their only advice was to restart it? We have had the modem plugged into both a surge protector and directly into an outlet, and it still restarts itself periodically. We have tried plugging it into a different outlet with the same results. It has restarted itself whether it is physically connected to any devices via ethernet or not. All connections are tight and secure. I am not sure how to insert data into a table on here and make it legible, but I will occasionally look at the connection status screen under CM Error Codewords. Unerrored Codewords usually sit in the 50-100 million range. Correctable Codewords sit in the ~100k+ range. Uncorrectable Codewords will sit in the high 10-20k range. If need be, I can try to get better data from that section. Before this gets to be a novel, I'll leave it at this. I believe I have covered most of what has been attempted during the long troubleshooting process, but the last agent I spoke to on the phone happened to mention that none of the previous techs have been documenting their findings, so everyone that helps me at this point will just have to trust that we have tried seemingly everything with no results.
Juj229 8 months ago Place Internet
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T3 Timeouts - Followup
Posting here because I wanted to follow up on my post from a couple months ago - T3 Timeouts. Wanted to update the community on my experience and what I had to do to get the issue resolved. My issue was that I was seeing intermittent (but crippling) packet loss on a daily basis. Going through normal Cox support channels, I had at least 6 different techs comeout to work on the problem. Some couldn't see the problem (if the packet loss wasn't happening when they were testing, most techs would just leave and charge us a fee for the visit without doing anything) and some would just change lines without doing any testing and call the problem fixed. Eventually, a tech came out and saw the problem. He created an ESR ticket to deal with the issue and gave me the ticket number to keep tabs on the problem. That's where the previous post ended. About a week later, I checked in with Cox support about the ticket. The ticket had been closed and some work apparently had been done in my neighborhood, but I wasn't seeing any improvement. I had two more techs come out to the house, neither of whom were able to identify and fix the issue. I was very hopeful when the original ESR ticket was created, but after it was closed I was basically starting back at square one to get Cox to acknowledge and fix the problem. At this point, I decided it was time to file an informal complaint with the FCC. I was contacted by Cox in I believe less than 24 hours after I filed the informal complaint. I was connected with the executive escalations team, and a tech was out the next day. There were at least 5 more tech visits after this one, but at least now there was a ticket being kept open until the issue was fixed and I wasn't starting from scratch each visit. Eventually, I was given the plant supervisor's cell number to text whenever I was seeing the packet loss so he could send someone out to check the neighborhood for interference. I was seeing multiple bucket trucks in my area over the past week and a half - from my conversations with the techs, I was told that there were a lot of locations near me where they identified some interference/ingress and had fixed the problem. Unfortunately for me, these fixes still weren't resolving my packet loss issue (hopefully the nail salon down the street is enjoying a very stable connection now). Last Friday, the escalations team let me know that the issueshould finally be resolved. Despite that, the issue became so severe over the weekend thatmy modem would completely disconnect from the internet multiple times and all of my real time applications became essentially unusable. This morning, I texted the plant supervisor letting him know that my issue was getting worse. I think they may have already had some indication that there was an issue, because there was someone out checking the pole in front of my house in less than 5 minutes of the text. Shortly after, the plant supervisor responded saying they'd identified interference on some of the lines, and that the tech had resolved it. For the first time in several months, Iam seeing 0% packet lossconsistently and my jitteris finally looking stable. I am cautiously optimistic that my problem has been dealt with. Beyond getting extremely lucky, I don't know how this would've been fixed without filing an informal FCC complaint. Even with the help of the higher tier support, it was difficult to track down and fix the problem. It blows my mind a little that the problem seems to have been right out in front of my house at the pole and yet they were combing the entire neighborhood for the issue, but I realize tracking down ingress is sort of like finding a needle in a haystack. It was also illuminating to speak to the techs and hear about how pitiful the state of their infrastructure is at the moment. I live in the Gulf South, and there are apparentlyinnumerableproblems from hurricane damage that Cox has not been able to address for years. So to sum it up, there's no way I would've reached a resolution without filing an informal FCC complaint. At least in my area, there are tons of problems that the company is very sluggishly dealing with. Had I not made some noise, it could've been years before they fixed it (assuming they'd ever fix it at all). The plant supervisor basically said they've been seeing the intermittent packet loss for long time, but since no one was complaining about it, they weren't committing resources to fixing it. Hopefully,it's resolved for good and I can finally stop stressing about it.
vebeltran 9 months ago Place Internet
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