Cox, Charter merging?

[John2021]

I pay $160/mo for Cox, 1gbps down 35m up. $50 of that is for unlimited data. We legit (no torrents or other illicit stuff) use 4tb/mo in data.

Cox is running fiber in the neighborhood though, and the techs said ATT's fiber usually becomes available shortly after as well, and they're also doing the Google Fiber installs that have just started in the valley.

Finally... some options... maybe one day.

we pay 45.00 for charters gig service for three years once we threated to cancel and goto a fiber provider

 

[osu1991]

we pay 45.00 for charters gig service for three years once we threated to cancel and goto a fiber provider

Gotta have another provider to be able to do that. My sister in law has been bugging me the last week about her cox service.. Got a new router and speeds still slow in her opinion. Varies between 280 and 600 with docsis gig service, but always gets the full 100 down. Cox told her she needed a new modem and one of theirs would fix it.( I put an end to that nonsense). She has a nice docsis 3.1 modem already. Told her it's just congestion and nothing she can do about it other than complain and waste her time and cox by requesting a tech. Cox is the only provider in her neighborhood. She's thought about trying starlink, I told her she'll pay the same and end up with the same or slower speeds.

 

[harshness]

She has a nice docsis 3.1 modem already.

A lot of people think that. The problem is that it isn't necessarily true.

A few of the early DOCSIS 3.1 32x8 routers had two gigabit outputs which meant that they could only offer ~930Mbps to most conventional routers that feature only a single WAN port. To get full DOCSIS 3.1 speed with most consumer routers (that feature only one WAN port), you need a modem with a multi-gig output and a router with a multi-gig input (or a gateway similarly outfitted).