Cox Ultimate 48Mbps Down - 7Mbps Up Installed Today - $89/mo

[michael zaletel]

Just upgraded to Cox Ultimate in Phoenix area. These are some pretty crazy Internet speeds for $89 a month.

 

[michael zaletel]

Just curious if Cox Cable is offering this speed of service in other locations. What other residential ISP's are offering speeds this fast nationwide?

-michael zaletel

 

[Tom Lowe]

sweet! is this fiber?

i love how many of the "4K at home" naysayers claim there is not enough bandwidth for 4K.

 

[michael zaletel]

sweet! is this fiber?

i love how many of the "4K at home" naysayers claim there is not enough bandwidth for 4K.

No, it's just a new CISCO DPC3000 modem plugged into the same coax outlet in my house. The tech had to isolate the particular jack to a 2nd line that was already coming into our house for Cox Phone in order to get the signal strength and consistency required for the fastest speeds.

Tech told me this was just released in Phoenix area in the last few days. Probably some beta testing prior.

I'm actually most excited about the over 1MB/sec (8Mbps) per second upload speeds. I can now upload a 1GB HD file to Vimeo or etc. in only 16 minutes! A dedicated T1 line would require almost an hour and a half to upload the same file. T1 is 1.544 Mbps. I'm getting over 8 Mbps up and nearly 50 Mbps or 32 times faster than dedicated T1 down. Depending upon the bandwidth test I run and server location selected, the download speed ranges from 21 to 50 Mbps while the upload ranges from 7 to 9 Mbps.

I'm also getting about about 33 ms Latency which isn't the best but still good.

-michael zaletel

 

[Jeff Kilgroe]

The COX 48Mbps is fiber-based... As in fiber right up to the distro-box for the neighborhood or distro-group. Qwest is rolling out similar service for phone customers as well. Testing it here in a few areas in CO, but not in my location yet. They have a couple different speed options from around 12Mbps up to 50Mbps. But I think the fastest residential offering is 24 or 36.

I'd love to get something like this. My current 7Mbps/1.5Mbps is alright for downstream, but the 1.5Mbps uploads are painful at times.

Anyway, this is the connection tech that will drive high-quality on demand video over the next few years. Having a 20Mbps or faster connection opens the door for 10~12Mbps REDRAY streaming. Just sayin...

 

[PatrickW]

I'm actually most excited about the over 1MB/sec (8Mbps) per second upload speeds. I can now upload a 1GB HD file to Vimeo or etc. in only 16 minutes! A dedicated T1 line would require almost an hour and a half to upload the same file. T1 is 1.544 Mbps. I'm getting over 8 Mbps up and nearly 50 Mbps or 32 times faster than dedicated T1 down. Depending upon the bandwidth test I run and server location selected, the download speed ranges from 21 to 50 Mbps while the upload ranges from 7 to 9 Mbps.

But a T1 will upload that file in said amount of time guaranteed, whereas with a high speed consumer line, those speeds are up too. So your best bet is to tell everyone near you that the service sucks so the line doesn't get oversubscribed.

 

[michael zaletel]

Good info.

-michael

 

[Charles Angus]

So your best bet is to tell everyone near you that the service sucks so the line doesn't get oversubscribed.

Hmm... Time to paper the neighbourhood.