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	Opening: This website is dedicated to the users, and previous users of Cox High Speed Internet. It is a demonstration of the speeds of Cox High Speed Internet in photographs taken by the users. None of these photographs are false, and none of the connections have been altered to produce a higher or lower rating. Some of these speeds may be very low! Please proceed with caution! -» Our Forum
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This first series of photographs were taken on resedential cable with dynamic ip addresses. The location was Vienna, Va.
 

	Speedtest at [wdc.speakeasy.net] in Washington D.C. results from around 9pm.
	Ping test with VisualRoute at the same time to www.cox.net.
	Ping test with VisualRoute at same time to www.yahoo.com.
	Speedtest at [chi.speakeasy.net] in Chicago at same time.
	Ping test with VisualRoute at same time to www.micrsoft.com.
	Ping test with VisualRoute at 5am to www.cox.net.
	Ping test with VisualRoute at 5am to www.cox.net, again.

Prognosis: Ping was steadily above the 200s the entire night. At times it would jump to 2 seconds, sometimes even up to
even 8 seconds then at which the connection would completely stall. Simply connecting to a website or a gameserver
would render itself impossible. Speedtests were very poor quality (as long as we were able to open the webpage). That
night the internet was practically unusable. 

This next series of pictures were also taken on resedential cable with dynamic ip addresses. Located at Annadale, Va.
 

	Speedtest at [wdc.speakeasy.net] in Washington D.C. at about midnight.
	Ping test with VisualRoute to www.cox.com. [same time]
	Ping test with VisualRoute to www.dslreports.com. [same time]
	Ping test with VisualRoute www.espn.com. [same time]
	Ping test with VisualRoute www.telia.com. [same time]
	Ping test with VisualRoute www.speakeasy.net at around noon.
	Ping test with VisualRoute www.microsoft.com at around noon.

Prognosis: At this location speed seemed to be a little better in speedtests, at least webpages would open. Speed showed
to be above 100k download but not much hope after that. Ping was jumpy, I had seen the lowest ping cox has given me
for a while -under 100ms. This didn't last for long, it shot back up to the 600s with packet loss. 

This next series of photographs were taken on resedential cable with dynamic ip addresses. The location was Vienna, Va.
 

	Ping test with VisualRoute to www.awwm.com at around 4:30 pm.
	Ping test with VisualRoute to coxcable.netfirms.com. [same time]
	Ping test with VisualRoute to www.lolz.com. [same time]

Prognosis: Yet another afternoon of spoiled gaming. They was taken Sept. 10th.

This next picture was taken on resedential cable with dynamic ip addresses. Located at Annadale, Va.
 

Ping test with VisualRoute to www.level3.net taken at 7:35 pm.

Prognosis: What a suprise! Lag. Taken Sept. 11th.

Update as of Sept. 28th: Sorry haven't gotten any new pics yet, been kinda busy. Anywho, Cox has been upgrading
the neighborhood in vienna to fiber. Basically there replacing old wires with fiber, so that the nodes are equipted to hold
more users (you would think). Now the only thing coaxial is the line from the cablemodem to the node. Okay, this is a step
in the right direction. If you haven't heard Fairfax County (our county) has been fining Cox Communications for not completing
their updates in this area, im telling you now. It's something like $2000 a day, and $2,000,000 if they fail to complete a series
of scheduled updates. The article can be found here. This post is after the updates have taken place, so what has it done?
Nothing. Still lags. I have called them about it many times, they have done tests, and agree with me that basically my line sucks.
Unfortunately they can do nothing, at least the techsupport, I don't think i can get to talk to a manager or a boss anytime soon.
Ill keep up my attempt to update this website, now that I see people are actually viewing it, I know a lot more people in this area
with Cox HSI, so perhaps my next step is to test their lines.

Update as of Oct. 4th: Nothing significant has happened with cox or bandwith issues. Our area was one of the areas hit
when UUNet had its outage, a few isp's around here were lagging badly. Other people ive talked to with Cox
agree that this area is way oversubscribed, along with other cable companies like Comcast & Adelphia.

Update as of Oct. 6th: Was at a friends house on saturday, in Maryland, they had RCN cable modem. Man that was fast.
Speedtest showed 1326k download, 766k upload. Ping was great, sub 10ms all the way to the backbone, to which
RCN has at least 9 major ones just in this area alone. I checked on the availibiliy of it in my house, a friends house,
and another friends house, all in this area. Apparently, neither RCN, Comcast (excluding alexandria), Charter, or ATTBI
are avilible in this area. It seems that we are stuck with the crap that cox charges us. Details about RCN in this area.

Update as of Oct. 11th: Been getting a lot of feedback on dslreports.com on all my spam posts etc. I post my email
address here on this page so that I can get feedback from you, not from dslreports.com, so please, send via email, cuz its
easier for me to delete your message =) 

The next series of photos were taken in an unnamed location on the west coast, sent to me by Ryan. Thanks Ryan.
 

	Speedtest on west coast. Unkown time, date, and test location.
	Speedtest on west coast.
	Ping & packet loss test, to west coast and east coast. Unkown date and time.
	Speedtest on west coast.

Prognosis: Mr. Ryan didn't provide me with a description for the pictures, so ill do my best. It looks like most or all of the
speedtests were taken on the west coast. Im not sure what his zip code is, california? He seems to have some good bandwith
over there. Im not sure what his cap is. Telling by the amount of users on Dslreports.com, it was off-peak hours? Usually when
I come on theres 1000 or more. It's good to know somebody on Cox has some decent bandwith. Please continue with the
photos, mine are getting stale. 

These next pictures was taken on resedential cable with dynamic ip addresses. Located at Connecticut.
 

	Proof that Rob uses Cox. Time is stated in lower right corner as-is.
	Download speedtest from www.bandwithplace.com.
	Speedtest from www.dslreports.com.
	Ping to www.yahoo.com.
	Ping to www.cox.net.
	Download test from www.download.com.

Ping/packet loss graphs & pictures from Counterstrike.

Prognosis: Good Speeds for Mr. Rob in Connecticut. His ping seems to be very stable. Not an exact specified date, but
the email was recieved Thursday Oct. 17th. Mr. Rob also provided me a description of what he did to increase his speeds.
They follow in this order: 1. Formatted my hard drive to make sure all the cox bullshit was off the computer. 2. Used
DR.TCP to set my RWIN value to the right level. Also modified the windows reg for broadband. 3. Told cox to give me
a signal booster. 4. Cox did recent work in my area because of poor service a few months ago. I can relate to most of that.
I haven't formatted my hard drive though, I can just test it on another computer. I too have tweeked my settings, and I have
a signal booster. Cox has been replacing coax lines with fiber lines all except from house to node. Im curious though, you
live in Connecticut, but dosen't Optimum Online service Connecticut? I would jump on OOL any day of the week if I
had the chance. Thanks for the Photos Mr. Rob. 

Update as of Oct. 20th: <Unrelated to Cox> I posted some photos of my ping/bandwith relationship at school. They
can be found here. Theres a good amount of bandwith to download/upload, and ping is great for playing online. Spending
a friday afternoon in the Compsite room playing Counterstrike makes for a good way to have fun now. If only we could get
into the Network Design & Technology (CCNA) room where they have P4's =)

Update as of Oct. 24th: Due to the amount of users (I have users??), I have created a forum. All your blabber can be
posted their. It can be found here and at the top & bottom or this page. Please feel free to post your questions relating to
cox, post your images if you prefer, or for any reason.

Update as of Oct. 25th: <Unrelated to Cox> Updated the front page of this website a little. Compressed all the preview
images from a total of 521kb to 138kb. It should load a whole lot faster now. Not really news but worth telling.

Update as of Mar. 6th: <Unrelated to Cox> After my hard drive got deleted I lost pass to this site for updating so