Inconsistent and Incorrect Outage Information - Extremely Frustrating
I’m beyond frustrated with the way Cox has handled communication about a planned network outage this week. The lack of clarity and consistency in the information provided has been infuriating. Here’s what I’ve been dealing with: Email Notification: I received an email about the outage, but instead of providing a clear date (MM/DD/YY), the email just included a countdown. This is a terrible way to inform customers about a planned outage, especially when sent a week in advance. Conflicting Times in Email: According to the countdown in the email, the outage should begin on 09/04/2024 at 5:00 PM. However, when I clicked the "add to calendar" button, it added the outage for 09/04/2024 at 8:00 AM. This inconsistency leaves me completely in the dark about when I’ll actually lose service. Door Flyer: To make matters worse, I received a door flyer with different times altogether. The flyer says the outage is scheduled for 09/03/2024 & 09/04/2024, with two outage windows: 5:00 AM - 12:00 PM and 12:00 PM - 6:00 PM underlined in marker. Customer Service Confusion: When I called customer service, the representative couldn’t provide any more information than “yes, we sent you an email” and didn’t seem to understand the issue. The same thing happened when I tried the online chat. This morning, I finally reached someone who could tell me the outage had already started—despite my email still showing a countdown of over 31 hours. This entire situation is unacceptable. I’ve been a Cox customer for years, but after this and the multiple outages we’ve had recently, I’m seriously considering switching providers. This needs to be fixed. Your communication with your customers has been awful. As someone who works from home and needs internet access to do my job it's frustrating to not receive correct information even after reaching out to customer service. Below is a screen shot of the email that was taken on 09/03/2024 9:59am which is evidence of my first bullet point above.
3 day outage now
We live (moderator hid address) in omaha there has been an outage of service since noon saturady. No one can give answers as of whats going on whats being done to fix or when the outage can expected to be fixed. You try calling the a.i doesnt allow you to connect try chatting and no questions get answered. Hopefully Cox credits for this outage as well as cox how about some transparency with your paying customersWhy does our internet go out anytime it rains?
Our Cox high-speed internet cuts out every time it rains. Even in a slight drizzle it’ll slow down to the point where I can’t conduct a Zoom meeting, which is a major problem because I work from home and my employer is 2,500 miles away. Needless to say, we can’t stream our TV shows either. Is there a node or hub somewhere near us that’s not properly protected from the elements or something?
Internet outages all the time in 74146
I'm trying to find out if they even offer a reason for the outages anymore because Cox is the only company I can get at my apartment and 90% of the time I can't even use it and they won't tell me why. I'm about to just cancel it and get a better phone plan with a big Hotspot because at least then I'd be able to use it and not pay 200$ a month for nothing. I just want to know if this will ever stop. It's literally every other day it goes down for almost the entire day and they're a monopoly in my area so I can't get AT&T or anything else. This is ridiculous. I want answers. (Tulsa, OK zip code 74146)
Due to the recent weather event our teams are assessing your area.
Weather alert - Due to the recent weather event, our teams are assessing your area. We are aware and will update you with next steps as soon as possible. COX support has been sending me this Text message for 7 days; when does "assessing your area" become unacceptable in a digital age with work from home customers? Consistent lag, jitter, buffering of video, video gaming is impossible with rubber banding, but if you contact support, it's "there's an outage in your area." There really needs to be better communicationwhen issues are happening,have they even started assessing, are they working to fix the issue? Seven days is a long time for such a high premium customers pay that's constantly rising.
