I've had CenturyLink and now have Cox. I would still have CenturyLink
if they would have given me a discount when my promotion was up - they
refused, so I switched to cox. When I called up to cancel the service
and return equipment, they suddenly found a 50% off for 2 years discount
code. Too late - that ship sailed.
Cox has me so bundled up that to split the video from the Internet from
the phone and just go with Cox video and CL internet will cost me more
than what I'm paying now, and the Cox video features were better than CL
at the time I switched. It was literally like stepping from the 20th
century with CL into the 21st Century with Cox.
In the end, in my opinion, bandwidth is good, but latency is king, but
QoS trumps everything. I have a co-worker who has been having problems
with his provider in Prescott Valley. They implemented "a fix" that
drops him offline for 23 seconds at 10:00am every day (sounds like
rebooting a router). I also know Cox' service seems to vary from
neighborhood to neighborhood, and I got lucky as I have had no problems,
except bandwidth from my gamer kids who have to download 25-100GB of
games every week.
Regards,
George Toft
On 1/26/2021 6:16 PM, Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss wrote:
Streaming media is indeed a set bandwidth, but the headroom that a
faster connection gives will hel offset the more bursty downloads
without stalling or impacting the streaming content.
Having had cox and century link gig fiber century link has been the
better experience so far. And for concurrent streams fiber has been
far more graceful and I think that the latency was a portion of it.
On Tue, Jan 26, 2021, 4:54 PM AZ Pete via PLUG-discuss
<plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org
<mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org>> wrote:
I would think hard about upgrading to a "faster" plan.
The Wall St. Journal did a study that basically said you gain no
advantage for streaming media by upgrading to a faster plan.
The WSJ article is behind a pay wall, but this article summarizes
the results.
https://medium.com/gowander/quick-take-wsj-the-truth-about-faster-internet-its-not-worth-it-c73d79a616b9
<https://medium.com/gowander/quick-take-wsj-the-truth-about-faster-internet-its-not-worth-it-c73d79a616b9>
I've been working from home since last March when Covid started. I
have two kids. One is in high school who is on Zoom all day for
school. The other is streaming Pluralsight/Youtube/Coursera all
day doing self-learning to become a software dev. I'm a DBA and am
on all kinds of video calls/meetings throughout the day as well as
transferring large files to/from my local network. My wife works
remotely as well (altho not very many video meetings). In the
evening the kids are streaming movies/Youtube/video
games/Discord/etc. With all this streaming going on I've never
experienced any noticeable lag/dropouts in streaming or video
conference calls. However, we consistently *almost* reach our
1.25TB cap each month. I have the Cox "Internet Preferred" plan
(100Mb down/10 up). Since we are using a lot more data I'm
considering upgrading our data cap (but not the speed).
As far as the redundant ISP idea, I too worry about this. But my
plan in the event of an ISP outage is to use my mobile phone as a
hot spot. It'll work in a pinch to get me by until the outage is
resolved. I've only ever experienced short outages with Cox, so
having a backup ISP seems like a lot of wasted money in my
opinion. But, you have to assess you're own situation and make the
decisions that work for you.
Something to consider....
Peter
On 1/26/2021 3:49 PM, der.hans via PLUG-discuss wrote:
Am 26. Jan, 2021 schwätzte Mike Schwartz so:
moin moin Mike,
OT: Off topic ... Hi from an old timer ... plus, a Question
Please forgive me if I have been "out of radio contact" for too
long.
Yeah, it's been a while :).
I believe both CenturyLink and Cox are offering Gigabit if you're
in the
right part of town. At least Cox puts a data maximum on it. I
believe
someone pointed out that a true gigabit connection can hit the
monthly
maximum in a few hours.
I was switching ISPs about the time that the pandemic started, so
just
kept the old connection. I'm on one connection for dayjob and the
family
uses the other.
Since the pandemic has started both ISPs have had multi-hour
outages, so
it's been handy to have a spare. Paying for two connections is a lot
cheaper than not getting paid due to overloaded bandwidth :).
ciao,
der.hans
(as in ... the "Wolf Brand chili" slogan)
(see, e.g.,
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22Wolf+Brand+chili%22+slogan&t=h_&ia=web
<https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22Wolf+Brand+chili%22+slogan&t=h_&ia=web>
OR ... just click over to the "[[Slogan]]" *section* of the
Wikipedia
article about "Wolf Brand chili" ... at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_Brand_Chili#Slogan
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_Brand_Chili#Slogan>
* * * Question: * * *
We upgraded our ISP service (at home) when my wife started
working from
home ... around the beginning of the pandemic. It is still
"DSL", --
through "CenturyLink" -- but supposedly it is now FOUR times
faster than it
used to be, (it "had been" ... for * * * *years. ** * *)
I think we need something faster now. (We have 3 adults ... and
make use of
[either Zoom or "Google Meet" or something similar] a lot lately.
Any advice?
(including, whether or not we should have more than one ISP,
just to be on
the safe side?)
Thanks in advance, ...
Mike Schwartz
[elderly] timer
I may be in the Plug-Discuss archives ... if they [still] go
"WABAC"
...
Glendale AZ
schwa...@acm.org <mailto:schwa...@acm.org>
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