Does anyone else have cox internet and notice much slower speed and
reliability in the evenings?

I've been running smokeping for a few weeks and every evening, about 7-11
speed and latency is very sporadic. I'm not 100% how long this has been a
problem but back in april/may I started a new project where I have been
working from home more and need to use a VPN to connect to another network.
Actually, two different VPNs on two different networks. One, is Dell
Sonicwall and the other is a Cisco. The Cisco, is surprisingly very stable
and even though the network is flakey the Cisco stays connected. But the
Sonicwall is very sensitive to the network outages. Any time the network
glitches the Sonicwall disconnects and all my SSH connections drop. Now I
RDP to a server on the network and run the SSH sessions from there. So I
don't lose everything.

But, this brings me back to Cox's evening service. A tech came out about a
month ago and checked my signals which were all in the good range, he even
replaced the cable modem on good faith. Even though the one I had was only
a few months old.I replaced a much older linksys docsis2, with the Cisco
docsis3 modem. So, the tech replaced my modem with mostly the same model
modem, but still the signals are good. Normally, running a speed test on
speedtest.net, i get around 30Mbps down, 15Mbps up. Just now, i got .75Mbps
down, and 4Mbps up.
My smokeping is hitting 3 Cox DNS servers and one of their web servers and
a handful of other high profile servers. As well as two of my own personal,
which have no traffic and should be no lag what so ever. Yet smokeping
shows dropped packets and higher latency.

I've called a few more times to try to explain the problem again. Monday i
called and the guy said they will send someone to check from the house out.
Last night I called and the person wanted to schedule a tech to come to the
house again. I asked for level 2 support and was put on hold for an hour. I
eventually hung up.

If I were just web surfing, i would probably have never noticed and
probably wouldn't care, but now that i'm using the VPN a lot it would be
nice to have stable service in the evenings.

has anyone else run into this and have any suggestions about how I can get
to the bottom of it with cox?

I don't want to move to another ISP, but if it comes down to it, i will.

thoughts? suggestions? bullshit remarks from jarred?


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