[olug] Gigabit Internet

Thu May 9 14:16:22 UTC 2013

Your right I'm wrong here. I meant to say to the SOHO not residential. From earlier this year dozens of emails and calls about multiple drop outs using fiber. Cox cut some costs at first but after a while it became apparent that Cox fiber wasn't up to it. A few thousand dollars later went back to coax and relocated and it was night and day difference. Last payment to cox hasn't been made and they are not asking ..... wonder why.
As far as the available bandwidth not sure but maybe it was the package we went with? We certainly didn't get the available bandwidth although all indications pointed to the fact the bandwidth was there.

Roger Sheldon
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From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of Aric
Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2013 3:41 PM
To: Omaha Linux User Group
Subject: Re: [olug] Gigabit Internet

Justin Reiners:

Yeah, I'll gladly pay $150 a month for gigabit.

Both my Cox home and my work Cox Business (about a mile away) connection when down Monday night / Tuesday morning at midnight.

My Cox home internet has gone down 4 times in the last 30 days.  They seem to be planned outages because they have been at midnight and for about 5 min. (according to the quality RRD graph in pfSense).  I with they would send me an email warning me of the maintenance.

I am likely upgrading my wireless access point from an Asus RT-N12 to an Asus RT-AC66U soon.  I am thinking I could use the wireless bridge feature of the RT-N12 to connect my 20-30Mb Verizon Wireless 4G LTE hotspot to an additional WAN adapter on my pfSense box for fail over.

"The internet is like a drug, I would pay almost anything for it"
Yes, and I really hate paying $10 a gig when I go over 4 gig a month on Verizon Wireless phone.....  But I'll still pay it like a crack head. The internet is a powerful drug.

Roger Sheldon:

"Fiber is the way to go but I think the way cox manages the fiber to residential is .... less than desirable."

Cox does fiber to residential?

"It's still a shared network I believe so you prob won't see all the bandwidth allocated."

When I had TCONL cable the sharedness? of the connection was terrible.  I would have 600ms+ ping times to just about anywhere from 6pm until 9pm.

>From my experience for at least the last 5 years I have been getting at least the advertized bandwidth at my tier.  If when I had a 50Mbit x 5Mbit connection and it was working, I could always ftp from a data center at 50mbit and upload at 5Mbit.  I also almost always had/have low latency.

> man, I don't think that price is bad, My bill is over $140/mo for my 
> COX business 50M, (just internet), my company pass well over $2000 a 
> month for 100M fiber. The internet is like a drug, I would pay almost 
> anything for it :P
>
>
> On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 8:29 AM, Kenny Kant <akennykant at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I am within the coverage area and saw Century techs spending quite a 
>> bit of time in our neighborhood utility boxes.  This is very exciting 
>> to see this type of work being done.  However personally I can't 
>> imagine paying these prices for a residential Internet connection.  
>> So we will not be installing this until prices drop.
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
>>
>> On May 3, 2013, at 6:21 PM, "Aric" <aric at omahax.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Does anyone have the Gigabit fiber that Century link is doing yet?
>> It
>> > looks like they are offering it in their TCONL area of Omaha.  I 
>> > will likely me moving 2 or so miles this summer to get it.
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