[olug] Cox's last straw

[Benjamin Watson]

If you really want to gripe about your ISP, check out www.dslreports.com.

I've found this site handy for troubleshooting my cable modem and
other things.  There are forums for each of the major ISPs throughout
the country, including COX.  There, you can flame all you want about
outages, speeds, prices, blocked ports, etc...  Furthermore, you'll
have no problem finding plenty of people arguing both sides of the
coin.  I also know that several COX techs (at various tiers) monitor
the forums.

However, due to the nature of hybrid fibre-cable (HFC) networks, it is
in the ISPs best interest to limit customers upload
speed/amount/ability even if it means blocking certain popular ports
(25 and 80).  The more upstream traffic you generate, the worse off
everyone else in your neighborhood (or node) is.

Ben

On 8/4/07, Daniel Linder <dan at linder.org> wrote:
>
> On Saturday 04 August 2007 11:26, Sean Kelly wrote:
> [take Cox discussion off-line]
>
> Dave Thacker <dthacker9 at cox.net> wrote:
> > Seconded.
>
> On Sat, August 4, 2007 18:07, Joe Gulizia wrote:
> > Thirded...or I agree.
>
> I'm sure someone could setup (or find a pre-existing) Yahoo!Groups list to
> talk about Cox gripes and/or possible remedies.  I'll join and lurk if
> anyone finds one and/or sets one up.
>
> But for now, I too agree that this thread has gone on long enough. (And I
> was probably one of the initial sparks that caused it.)
>
> Dan
>
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