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May 15, 08 - 01:49 pm Comment from: Dasgeek

I hate Cox Communications! I wish I had another option.

May 15, 08 - 01:54 pm Comment from: ChrissyOne

Lousy Cox blockers.

No one should be surprised by this. It is a very bad idea to allow one company to control the Internet pipeline and sell entertainment content.

Like Comcast Cable, Cox is positioning itself to fend off an assault by Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Blockbuster Online for Internet video sales.

This is the first step in that process. Their problem is this: it's already too late. Cable companies have squandered any good will they might have once had with customers by constantly raising prices while delivering poor new digital service, especially HDTV.

May 15, 08 - 02:02 pm Comment from: Jay-Z

I'm surprised Time Warner hasn't tried this in NYC yet. Anyone heard of a way around this?

May 15, 08 - 02:02 pm Comment from: ron

Looks like a Cox-up to me.

May 15, 08 - 02:03 pm Comment from: Buster

My Cox is blocking all downloading of Urethra Franklin songs. This makes a vas deferens from other providers.

May 15, 08 - 02:04 pm Comment from: HMCIV

Holy He|| ChrissyOne!!

Chrissy-

THAT'S comedy!!

May 15, 08 - 02:25 pm Comment from: Metryq

Cox Uckers

My AppleTV over Cox has been slower over the last 24hrs. I wonder if that's not some more of their mischief starting.

for the past couple of weeks Cox Cable in Omaha has been limiting my bittorrent traffic to a max of 10mbs/sec.

Very Frustrating!!!!

Won't be long before wireless broadband will be fast enough for most things. Then wireless broadband will do to wired broadband what cell phone have done to landlines.

Insert obligatory MDN-take about blood.

I for one, love Cox. I just can't wait for Cox to get bigger. I know that some people feel violated by Cox, but I love them in my smaller area. And their service is great. I just have Cox enter my back door when I need serviced. Looooooovvvveeee themmmm!


MDN Magic Word: Length

I would go to any length to get Cox.

May 15, 08 - 02:47 pm Comment from: jtc

I have comcast right now. I somehow achieved 20 megabit download speeds for a while last year and now they are at 15 and we pay the standard house hold plan I think $45 a month. I don't use bit torrent because of the horridly slow speeds and bad connections and unreliability. I do use usenet though, and I've got speeds going at 800KB/s on average. It's annoying that they are cutting my speeds in half. I even have ssl but for some reason it wont connect if I have it enabled. They really need to stop this crap. I don't see a reason for them doing this at all.

May 15, 08 - 03:03 pm Comment from: ChrissyOne

@ Buster
"My Cox is blocking all downloading of Urethra Franklin songs."

Did you try downloading any Cervix-a-Lot?

May 15, 08 - 03:05 pm Comment from: ChrissyOne

@ Johnny Yardrocks

I think you're looking for the gay thread, honey.

"Gummadi said the test did not conclusively show that Cox or Comcast were blocking traffic, since neither company carried data all the way from their subscribers to his servers in Germany. In theory, intervening carriers could be disrupting the traffic, but there is no reason to believe that they're doing so."

So no real news, just blame the big guys cause the little guys are two small to mention... LOL Gotta love the internet and it's cloud. I worked at a small ISP that peered with a local University and they blocked P2P because of the DMCA crap. They decided to start "delaying" it on their two other peer connections once they saw how much bandwidth it "saved".

May 15, 08 - 03:24 pm Comment from: Mr. Peabody

What's the big deal? My local mom&pop;wireless service blatantly admits that they shut down computers that do this. Should I report them?

May 15, 08 - 03:28 pm Comment from: Buster

@c1...nah. The only thing I download with my Cox, besides Urethra, is...'The Stones'.

"Cox is positioning itself to fend off an assault by Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Blockbuster Online for Internet video sales."

Apple could pirate an old military line in a new advert...
(amid the sound of a bugle blowing reveille, you hear a Marine sergeant screaming....)
"Drop your Cox and put on your sox (and walk on over to Apple)..."

May 15, 08 - 03:43 pm Comment from: Zeke

I'm reminded of the license plate one of my divorced male friends obtained:

XSXCX

May 15, 08 - 04:05 pm Comment from: The DataDude

Without Ampar's participation, this thread just isn't what it could be...

Where the heck is he?

May 15, 08 - 05:53 pm Comment from: ChrisW357

So far, I'm using Cox's service (been using it for about 4 years or so) and I haven't had a problem with using torrent files. Then again, I don't think I'm a heavy torrent user; probably moderate to low. I still have a very decent speed with a well-seeded torrent. At one point during the last d/l, I saw speeds approaching 400KB/s (using Transmission). Then again, that's probably slow to most of you.

If I DO see them limiting the bandwidth in the future, I will definitely raise holy hell about it and probably switch internet providers.

i love using transmission.... i really hope this isn't true because i'm gonna be forced to have cox when i move next semester

I hate Cocks, they're such dicks.

May 16, 08 - 09:14 am Comment from: Buster

Cox sucks...Comcast is better.....

May 16, 08 - 10:07 am Comment from: Cubert

String 'em up by their f-ing balls!!!

Fargin' cork suckers!

And yeah.