[Lvlug] Cox Internet Power Boost and Linux?

[Tom Garland]

On 03/23/2010 06:00 PM, Michael Gossett wrote:
> Also, Tom, you said you were locked in for the 2 year agreement...
>
> On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 5:59 PM, cyberengineer
> <cyberengineer at earthlink.net <mailto:cyberengineer at earthlink.net>> wrote:
>
>     Hello Tom:
>     ��� ��� Did you get the $39 (or what ever it was) rate for life?� If
>     you did, you might want to think about not giving it up.� I bet Cox
>     is not cheap - and will go up after the intro.
>
>     Best regards - Richard Davis
>
>>
>>     I'm also thinking selling my 2 Clear modems for $50
>>     each if I switch to Cox. I'm offering them here hoping
>>     that if anyone buys them they would bring one of them
>>     to our LVLUG meetings.
>>
>>     Tom

Well I don't think I have a problem getting out of the 2
year agreement because Clear never delivered 1/2 of the
6 Mbps they promised.  Today I had a DL speed of 0.027
Mbps with a RSSI of -88 to -93 dBm. Called Clear support
and the idiot on the other end only had her cheat sheet to
work with, no brains.  About 2 hours after the call my
modem was back to it's plain ol' shitty mode of 2.7 Mbps
after I re-plugged the power for the third time. Just 100
times better than earlier in the day. What's weird is that
my wife's modem 1 foot away was running at RSSI of
-84 dBm all day which my usual db level too. Not as good
as the -78 dBm when first installed though.

Also checking out Cox Preferred that would cost me $60
for a 13 Mbps connection after use fees and taxes. Be
nice if I ever get 6Mbps from Clear for $50 a month for
both modems. They need more towers!

There that should take care of my frustrations for a
while.

Thanks all for the responses.

Tom
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