[H] cable upgrades
I have a COX cable Premium account and I pay though the nose for it. Their basic entry level account is 19 bucks a month and I pay 56 for 10 down and 2 up. But this week they upgraded my area to doc3. Surprisingly they will be able to update the firmware in my Motorola Surfboard doc2 modem without me doing anything. Before they did that they called me to come out and check my lines to make sure everything was in order and because their tests indicated my modem was out of range... which turned out to be caused by a filter on my line. They tell me after the upgrade they will be able to deliver up to 45 down.The timing was fortuitous because I have a new Plasma TV on the way . They cable guy was great, he checked all my fittings, checked the drop line and replaced all the connectors gave me new splitters and even made a special cable for me for my plasma which isn't hear yet. But the real thrill was doing speed tests. Before he came this morning I did a speed test, the one Cox tech uses, and I got 10.9 down and 4 up which is better then what I am paying for. But after he did the work and left, I ran it again. www.winterlight.org/speed.jpg
Re: [H] cable upgrades
Keep in mind that Cox has PowerBoost. It's a temporary increase in speed for the first few seconds/MB of a stream. It's mostly BS to make speed tests look good without providing any real material increase. Comcast developed the technology, and everybody else licenses it--including Cox and Time Warner Cable. -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware- boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Winterlight Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 3:12 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] cable upgrades I have a COX cable Premium account and I pay though the nose for it. Their basic entry level account is 19 bucks a month and I pay 56 for 10 down and 2 up. But this week they upgraded my area to doc3. Surprisingly they will be able to update the firmware in my Motorola Surfboard doc2 modem without me doing anything. Before they did that they called me to come out and check my lines to make sure everything was in order and because their tests indicated my modem was out of range... which turned out to be caused by a filter on my line. They tell me after the upgrade they will be able to deliver up to 45 down.The timing was fortuitous because I have a new Plasma TV on the way . They cable guy was great, he checked all my fittings, checked the drop line and replaced all the connectors gave me new splitters and even made a special cable for me for my plasma which isn't hear yet. But the real thrill was doing speed tests. Before he came this morning I did a speed test, the one Cox tech uses, and I got 10.9 down and 4 up which is better then what I am paying for. But after he did the work and left, I ran it again. www.winterlight.org/speed.jpg
Re: [H] cable upgrades
So that's why it drops off. I've always wondered why that happens. Thanks for that tidbit, Greg. Jeff Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 1:40 PM Subject: Re: [H] cable upgrades Keep in mind that Cox has PowerBoost. It's a temporary increase in speed for the first few seconds/MB of a stream. It's mostly BS to make speed tests look good without providing any real material increase. Comcast developed the technology, and everybody else licenses it--including Cox and Time Warner Cable. -Original Message- Subject: [H] cable upgrades I have a COX cable Premium account and I pay though the nose for it. Their basic entry level account is 19 bucks a month and I pay 56 for 10 down and 2 up. But this week they upgraded my area to doc3. Surprisingly they will be able to update the firmware in my Motorola Surfboard doc2 modem without me doing anything. Before they did that they called me to come out and check my lines to make sure everything was in order and because their tests indicated my modem was out of range... which turned out to be caused by a filter on my line. They tell me after the upgrade they will be able to deliver up to 45 down.The timing was fortuitous because I have a new Plasma TV on the way . They cable guy was great, he checked all my fittings, checked the drop line and replaced all the connectors gave me new splitters and even made a special cable for me for my plasma which isn't hear yet. But the real thrill was doing speed tests. Before he came this morning I did a speed test, the one Cox tech uses, and I got 10.9 down and 4 up which is better then what I am paying for. But after he did the work and left, I ran it again. www.winterlight.org/speed.jpg
Re: [H] cable upgrades
Ahh so that’s how it works. I always thought it worked by caching certain content on their cache boxes and serving the cached content at faster speeds than if you were to download it over the normal non cached version. I should have known better. Thanks, -- Ali Mesdaq (CISSP, GIAC-GREM) Sr. Security Researcher Websense Security Labs http://www.WebsenseSecurityLabs.com -- -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Greg Sevart Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 1:40 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] cable upgrades Keep in mind that Cox has PowerBoost. It's a temporary increase in speed for the first few seconds/MB of a stream. It's mostly BS to make speed tests look good without providing any real material increase. Comcast developed the technology, and everybody else licenses it--including Cox and Time Warner Cable. -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware- boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Winterlight Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 3:12 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] cable upgrades I have a COX cable Premium account and I pay though the nose for it. Their basic entry level account is 19 bucks a month and I pay 56 for 10 down and 2 up. But this week they upgraded my area to doc3. Surprisingly they will be able to update the firmware in my Motorola Surfboard doc2 modem without me doing anything. Before they did that they called me to come out and check my lines to make sure everything was in order and because their tests indicated my modem was out of range... which turned out to be caused by a filter on my line. They tell me after the upgrade they will be able to deliver up to 45 down.The timing was fortuitous because I have a new Plasma TV on the way . They cable guy was great, he checked all my fittings, checked the drop line and replaced all the connectors gave me new splitters and even made a special cable for me for my plasma which isn't hear yet. But the real thrill was doing speed tests. Before he came this morning I did a speed test, the one Cox tech uses, and I got 10.9 down and 4 up which is better then what I am paying for. But after he did the work and left, I ran it again. www.winterlight.org/speed.jpg Protected by Websense Hosted Email Security -- www.websense.com
Re: [H] cable upgrades
Yeah, I had cable problems recently and TW had to come out and replace my modem, but I was talking to a knowledgeable L3 TW tech (she was very good) and she indicated that yeah, on the speed tests I'd see up to 30 Mbps down at first, but that was just the boost crap they did for the first part of the dl, and that it would typically drop to half that over the rest of the dl... So I saw 30 Mbps at first, but get 15 Mbps sustained now for my dls from big sites...fwiw. BINO From: ames...@websense.com To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 13:52:50 -0700 Subject: Re: [H] cable upgrades Ahh so that’s how it works. I always thought it worked by caching certain content on their cache boxes and serving the cached content at faster speeds than if you were to download it over the normal non cached version. I should have known better. Thanks, -- Ali Mesdaq (CISSP, GIAC-GREM) Sr. Security Researcher Websense Security Labs http://www.WebsenseSecurityLabs.com -- -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Greg Sevart Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 1:40 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] cable upgrades Keep in mind that Cox has PowerBoost. It's a temporary increase in speed for the first few seconds/MB of a stream. It's mostly BS to make speed tests look good without providing any real material increase. Comcast developed the technology, and everybody else licenses it--including Cox and Time Warner Cable. -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware- boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Winterlight Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 3:12 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] cable upgrades I have a COX cable Premium account and I pay though the nose for it. Their basic entry level account is 19 bucks a month and I pay 56 for 10 down and 2 up. But this week they upgraded my area to doc3. Surprisingly they will be able to update the firmware in my Motorola Surfboard doc2 modem without me doing anything. Before they did that they called me to come out and check my lines to make sure everything was in order and because their tests indicated my modem was out of range... which turned out to be caused by a filter on my line. They tell me after the upgrade they will be able to deliver up to 45 down.The timing was fortuitous because I have a new Plasma TV on the way . They cable guy was great, he checked all my fittings, checked the drop line and replaced all the connectors gave me new splitters and even made a special cable for me for my plasma which isn't hear yet. But the real thrill was doing speed tests. Before he came this morning I did a speed test, the one Cox tech uses, and I got 10.9 down and 4 up which is better then what I am paying for. But after he did the work and left, I ran it again. www.winterlight.org/speed.jpg Protected by Websense Hosted Email Security -- www.websense.com
Re: [H] cable upgrades
Best benchmark of speed I've found is prolonged usenet article body downloading from Giganews, YMMV. On 4/7/2010 1:56 PM, Bino Gopal wrote: Yeah, I had cable problems recently and TW had to come out and replace my modem, but I was talking to a knowledgeable L3 TW tech (she was very good) and she indicated that yeah, on the speed tests I'd see up to 30 Mbps down at first, but that was just the boost crap they did for the first part of the dl, and that it would typically drop to half that over the rest of the dl... So I saw 30 Mbps at first, but get 15 Mbps sustained now for my dls from big sites...fwiw.
