[olug] Cox Speed Increase

[Justin Reiners]

I assumed it were hijacking any dns lookups for residential period, seems
like something they would do. Although I had to deal with both ATT and Time
Warner today at the sales office, 2 different ISP's both down due to a
fiber cut. Ahh excitement, Makes me love Cox.


On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 8:40 PM, Justin Reiners <justin at hotlinesinc.com>
wrote:

> Ahh that explains it. I use my own DNS server.
> On Jul 8, 2014 8:39 PM, "T. J. Brumfield" <enderandrew at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I've been using OpenDNS rather that Cox's DNS for years so I've never seen
>> their DNS hijacking.
>>
>> Google also has a Namebench tool to help you find the DNS server that will
>> give you the best performance.
>>
>> http://www.beststuff.com/gadgets/google/29622/
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 8:36 PM, Aric Aasgaard <aric at omahax.com> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> >
>> http://www.omaha.com/money/increase-in-cox-residential-internet-speeds-comin
>> > g-this-week/article_d62501ac-05f2-11e4-ba25-0017a43b2370.html
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > So Cox residential is getting a speed increase this week, I hope the
>> > Ultimate tier gets a boost.  Any luck getting Century Link gigabit to
>> work
>> > well?
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Last week I opted out of the "advance error page" DNS hijacking (I
>> thought
>> > I
>> > had already done this in the past)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> http://www.cox.com/residential/support/internet/article.cox?articleId=bd71bb
>> > c0-6446-11df-ccef-000000000000
>> >
>> > My Cox Ultimate internet now seems laggier than normal.  By doing this
>> did
>> > I
>> > get added to some goofy traffic filter group that is really laggy?
>> >
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