Why is cox the worst thing in all of Norfolk VA??
Hello I have gigablast internet, and for the past two weeks my internet has been super slow. I don't do anything too demanding except occasionally play an online game on my Nintendo switch. Yet every time I've done this I've gotten a "weak connectivity" notification even though my modem is in the same room. I did a wifi test on my laptop and it was complete trash 17 ping 20.51 download and 6.41 upload. Like I said, complete trash. I called and we recently had a tropical storm hit so they tried to play it off as if it was because of an outage, despite me telling them this has been going on for two weeks. They told me to call back later when they got the outage fixed. I did and got hung up on. called again never got an answer. I texted their help line and it took like 12 hours for the first reply and when I tried again it took like 2 or 3 hours to get a response. I just want to know if I'm supposed to pay for gigablast or have my billing changed to reflect this complete trash of internet? Oh and I've got no other option as to internet providers because cox has a choke hold on the market here in Norfolk. Cox ** soo much.643Views0likes2Comments
Abysmal Upload Speeds
I have already posted this in a thread below and decided to post it in a new thread as to not interfere with the help of the the other customer. I am a Streamer and we have been receiving serious issues with our upload speeds. This problem is near identical to another recent users post. A user that seems to be not too far from us. Also as this user had stated, the issue started directly after a recent outage and we have JUST upgraded to a speed of 300/20. After our upgrade our speeds had been AMAZING, ever since the outage I would seem to have ok speeds here and there but primary my upload has been abysmal. ranging anywhere from 10 up - 2 up. Cox speed test: Start Cox Net Download Speed Upload Speed Latency Your IP Address Cox Market Fri Jul 15 9:18 PM Yes 307 Mbps 9 Mbps 19 millisec 70.185.113.126 Atlanta (Cox speed test actually read 8 but reported 9. Honestly these tests have never seemed to align with our performance) (This speed test was as close to the cox speed test server as possible and was performed just before the cox test. I am able to monitor my output from my streaming software and they align more with speedtest.net) our Download speeds seem to be a bit low and when i called in the agent had informed me that there was some discrepancies with one of our lanes. I am not at all unhappy with the down speed as this is still absolutely more than adequate for me. The up speed on the other hand is a very huge issue. I thought maybe it was on my end but after extensive trouble shooting and a firmware update for my router it would seem this is not the case as far as I can see. This is only confirmed by the fact that others seem to be having the same exact issue. They had scheduled a truck roll which at earliest could arrive by Sunday but I would be pretty PO'd if they got here, nothing was fixed and we were responsible for the charges (especially considering the post I found with the user having the same issue reported 3 techs not fixing the problem.). I'm currently using a Netgear router with the model number: WNDR3700v5 and a modem with: SB6183. I was concerned about throttling, but after reading countless posts on here i'm fairly certain that is not the case. Though I would be lying if I stated that is was not a lingering concern. This is probably not very helpful but here is the tracert to where I am streaming: Tracing route to youtube-ui.l.google.com [216.58.194.142] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms www.routerlogin.com [192.168.1.1] 2 7 ms 8 ms 7 ms 10.5.0.1 3 8 ms 8 ms 8 ms ip72-214-194-117.ga.at.cox.net [72.214.194.117] 4 37 ms 31 ms 33 ms dalsbprj01-ae1.0.rd.dl.cox.net [68.1.2.109] 5 31 ms 31 ms 33 ms 209.85.172.68 6 36 ms 36 ms 38 ms 108.170.240.65 7 37 ms 35 ms 37 ms 209.85.250.83 8 36 ms 36 ms 36 ms dfw06s49-in-f14.1e100.net [216.58.194.142 I would like to ad that I had been a sup for a cable company in Maine for quite some time and am very understanding of network issues and do not want to come off as malicious in the least bit. On the contrary I have been very supportive of Cox and have been delighted with their services. I only hope that this will resolved ASAP as this is quite detrimental to my stream channel. Thanks! EDIT: I should probably mention that I am always wired in. Never wireless. I have tried tests with both the router and direct into the modem many times. I am seeing no errors in the router log. Of course I have tried unplugging and replugging all wires including co axle.7KViews0likes14Comments