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

Interestingly enough, the Veterans retail center does not have
anything different than what we bring into a normal residence.
Except perhaps a few more drops to drive all of the TVs.

Charles

On Sat, 26 Jan 2002 18:28:56 -0600, Pietu wrote:
>> It is a little of both. Your lease should be at least 24 hours as
>>of
>> Thursday. It will be extended more very soon. Boy, am I glad
this
>> conversion is over. Now I can work on the background issues.
>>Anyone
>> experiencing anything or seeing anything strange that I should
look
>> at???
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Charles
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>> HSD System Engineer, pcguy1@home.com on 01/26/2002
>
>
>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.
>
>btw. Follow up as customer service side seems to be ok. A clueless
>guy
>called me earlier today, asking about the conversion package. Did I
>receive
>it and did I have any problems etc.... I just replied that yes I got
>it,
>however it was useless since it did not caontain anything compatible
>with my
>computer. He became very confused, so I eased up on him and said
that
>everything works fine, slowly tho....
>
>
>Petri
>
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HSD System Engineer, pcguy1@home.com on 01/27/2002
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