I have a COX cable Premium account and I pay though the nose for it.
Their basic entry level account is 19 bucks a month and I pay 56 for
10 down and 2 up. But this week they upgraded my area to doc3.
Surprisingly they will be able to update the firmware in my Motorola
Surfboard doc2 modem w
x and Time Warner Cable.
> -Original Message-
> From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-
> boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Winterlight
> Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 3:12 PM
> To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
> Subject: [H] cable upgrades
>
So that's why it drops off. I've always wondered why that happens. Thanks
for that tidbit, Greg.
Jeff
Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 1:40 PM
Subject: Re: [H] cable upgrades
Keep in mind that Cox has PowerBoost. It's a temporary increase in speed for
the first few seconds
Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 1:40 PM
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: Re: [H] cable upgrades
Keep in mind that Cox has PowerBoost. It's a temporary increase in speed for
the first few seconds/MB of a stream. It's mostly BS to make speed tests
look good without providing any rea
13:52:50 -0700
> Subject: Re: [H] cable upgrades
>
> Ahh so that’s how it works. I always thought it worked by caching certain
> content on their cache boxes and serving the cached content at faster speeds
> than if you were to download it over the normal non cached version.
Best benchmark of speed I've found is prolonged usenet article body downloading from
Giganews, YMMV.
On 4/7/2010 1:56 PM, Bino Gopal wrote:
Yeah, I had cable problems recently and TW had to come out and replace my
modem, but I was talking to a knowledgeable L3 TW tech (she was very good) and
