Cox speed vary. Usually they are around 1.5 Mbps down, 256 Kbps up. On 16 May 2002 at 21:43, George Toft wrote: From: George Toft To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Subject: Re: DNS Problems (Anthem) Send reply to: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Date sent: Thu, 16 May 2002 21:43:35 -0400 > Hi Gilbert, > > I am currently in Florida, and my wife is happy with the service. When I > get back to Phoenix, if Qwest's VDSL service still sux, I'll investigate > switching. > > What is your speed on Cox? > > George > > > "Gilbert T. Gutierrez, Jr." wrote: > > > > George, > > Have you switched to Cox yet? I switched the first week that it was > > available at Anthem. I promptly went on vacation the next week (just > > getting back yesterday). I have not had any problems with their service > > yet, though their speed is very questionable and the cable channels are in a > > different order from Qwest's. > > > > Personally, I did not use my Qwest VDSL that often (had it for nearly 2 > > years) and when I did it worked (I get enough Internet at work and usually > > when I get home, the last thing I want to see is a computer and the > > Internet.). I noticed Qwest's Cable going out every once and a while. > > > > I switched not because of anything that Qwest did, but for financial > > reasons. I paid about $80/month for VDSL and Basic Cable. Now I pay an > > undisclosed amount for Cable modem service and every cable channel COX has > > (Its nice when your wife works for the cable company!). > > > > Perceived Differences... > > Cox seems slower. > > Cox only provides 1 IP address (you can pay for additional), Qwest gave me 3 > > IP addresses. > > QOS - it is too early to tell. > > Cost - I think they are about the same. > > > > If someone is only having DNS issues, I would install a DNS Cache server on > > their machine. My preference being Tiny DNS. > > > > Gilbert > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of George > > Toft > > Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 7:25 PM > > To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > Subject: Re: DNS Problems > > > > That won't do any good. Their DHCP servers (in Anthem) return three IP's: > > a 192.168.x.x address, which routes but does not respond, plus the other > > two mentioned below. Last September (or so), the first DNS failed. Then > > the second one failed. I confirmed this with ethereal. I called them, > > and the CSR politely took my complaint. Later that day, a supervisor > > called me back to explain failover - if the first one fails, it will > > roll over to the second name server. "Yes," I said, "but your second name > > server has failed also." It was down for over four days. I set up my old > > Sparc box (Solaris 7 - see, I use UNIX as well as Unix) as a DNS and got > > back to work. About once per week I would check on the name servers, and > > the primary NEVER CAME BACK UP!!! (Never being defined as until Christmas). > > > > There's a reason they lost their exclusive contract in Anthem. Something > > about poor QoS maybe? You can view my notes here: > > http://georgetoft.com/qwest > > > > If you read my notes, you will see the futility in dealing with them. > > > > George > > > > ________________________________________________ > > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > ________________________________________________ > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss