Well I'm basking the glow of 4Mb now that my drop is replaced and my new SB-5100 ($58 ebay) is online. Now the debate as to whether or not $15 more/mo to do 6Mb is worth it. 8)
When I started with COX back in October of 99 I think, there were few users on the system, I had no cap, and I could pull it in and send it out, as fast as the server could hand it out. Ten months in COX capped it to 3 down, and 256 up, but now that they have stiff competition from Verizon, they have raised it to 5 down and 512up.
have never noticed the changes on the down, mostly because, unlike DSL it isn't really a download cap, it is a guaranteed download speed, and if there is more bandwidth available, there always is, they give it to you. The limitation has never been with COX, it is always with the server you are downloading from. Very few servers will send it to you, as fast as you can bring it in.
For me, the only thing I have noticed, is the increase back to 512 up because I upload my data every week, around 1.5GB. So the increase in speed cut the upload time in half.
