[olug] Cox sucks

[Dan Clough]

thelarsons3 at cox.net wrote:
> Luke -Jr <luke at dashjr.org> wrote: 
>   
>> On Tuesday 17 July 2007 15:24, thelarsons3 at cox.net wrote:
>>     
>>> "Justifying the expense" is always the hard part.  I'd gladly pay $10/month
>>> extra to Cox for "hobbiest" level service (unblocked ports and reasonable
>>> upload caps) but that's about all it's worth to me.
>>>       
>> Maybe if enough of us get together and ask for a hobbiest flag (maybe $5/mo 
>> extra, if anything), they'll pay attention.
>>     
>
> It would have to be more than Omahans asking for it.  Cox has newsgroups, though I'm not sure how widely read they are - maybe make some noise there and see if anyone else jumps on the bandwagon.  Use petitiononline.com or something like it.
>
> Tim
>   
Speaking of the massive "suck" emanating from Cox, did anybody else get 
that automated phone call mentioning that their service now includes 
"PowerBoost"? 

I received that call yesterday and since then, I've gotten about a third 
of the speeds I usually get downloading ISOs, especially those from 
kernel.org and osuosl.org.  I used to push 1.5MB/s for large files but 
the fastest I've seen since yesterday have been in the 600kB/s range.

-Dan