Re: [Nolug] Cox: grrrr.... BIG GRRR...

On Sat, 26 Jan 2002 18:28:56 -0600 "Pietu" <plaihonen@uno.edu> wrote:
[snip]
> What I experience is not strange but very annoying. Now my connection speeds
> are EXTREMELY SLOW. Much much lower than 3 weeks ago. For example streaming
> in mp3's break very frequently and web pages load very slowly.....the usual
> dial-up feeling....
>
> I ran connection speed test from Cox store at Veterans in Metairie, result
> 2.4 Megabits/s.
> From home I get only 24.7 Kilobits/s. (second try 32.3 Kilobits/s.)
> I used http://bandwidthplace.com/speedtest/
> It makes sense that store (Showroom) has thicker pipe than actual
> service.....but this a bit too big of a difference, as I received letter
> from Cox some months ago stating that D/L speeds were increased to 3Mb/s.

Hmmm. I just tried it, and they say that my raw speed is 3.3Mbps,
and a 1MB file was FTP'd at 406KBps.

Seeing as how I'm 3 blocks from Pietu, that's interesting...

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