Charter/Spectrum and Cox Communication merger talks

[earlyre]

Great.... ANOTHER mega merger... I'm sure it will work out well for us Consumers....

https://apnews.com/article/charter-cox-merger-cable-regulators-13d6bdf6320d4924ac75c7fa8a6b636d

Charter (Spectrum) and Cox Communications are in Merger talks...

That article says the combined company will operate as Cox Communications... a different article I read earlier said the Combined Company would be Cox , but would operate under the Spectrum name ( which is what Charter has been doing since at least the Merger with Time-Warner Cable)

 

[I<3oil]

Hopefully I can get decent internet now. Cox wants like $130-150/mo for gigabit and still has 1.25TB cap.

 

[earlyre]

Hopefully I can get decent internet now. Cox wants like $130-150/mo for gigabit and still has 1.25TB cap.

Spectrum is basically the only game in town here, and they suck. I believe we're paying close to $100/mo for their base internet tier, which until about 6 months ago was 11up/100 down. they upped it to 11 up/ 400 down. no caps...so far, but they have threatened it.

if i lived in the next town over, i could get Brightspeed Fiber, gig Symmetrical for about the same we're currently paying Spectrum.

 

[AutoMechanic]

My parents have Cox for cable, internet and home phone. Hopefully the service would stay the same. They are wanting to drop the cable and home phone but they are in a contract for awhile longer so have to wait till that ends. Hopefully it won’t affect the contracts or anything.

 

[Toy4x4]

Charter Cox

More details in the link above. I have Cox internet only: $50 for 250/20. I generally get in the 290s, though. Hopefully things stay the same except for the customer service. Very hit or miss and sales will outright lie to you.

 

[I<3oil]

Charter Cox

More details in the link above. I have Cox internet only: $50 for 250/20. I generally get in the 290s, though. Hopefully things stay the same except for the customer service. Very hit or miss and sales will outright lie to you.

I was on their site the other day and they had new 300mb package for $50. I selected it and voila.

 

[andrew_j]

Hopefully I can get decent internet now. Cox wants like $130-150/mo for gigabit and still has 1.25TB cap.

Basically a firehouse to fill a kiddie pool. Not sure the advantage of that if you download occasionally.

 

[MalibuRam65]

Spectrum is basically the only game in town here, and they suck. I believe we're paying close to $100/mo for their base internet tier, which until about 6 months ago was 11up/100 down. they upped it to 11 up/ 400 down. no caps...so far, but they have threatened it.

if i lived in the next town over, i could get Brightspeed Fiber, gig Symmetrical for about the same we're currently paying Spectrum.

Check and see if a Mobile carrier is offering 5G internet in your area it may be a lot cheaper than cable

 

[dogememe]

Check and see if a Mobile carrier is offering 5G internet in your area it may be a lot cheaper than cable

Latency is significantly worse in most cases, though, so if you do lots of online gaming you might not be happy with it.

 

[MalibuRam65]

Latency is significantly worse in most cases, though, so if you do lots of online gaming you might not be happy with it.

Yeah I’ve heard that also not good if your in a battle on call of duty and your connection freezes up

 

[I<3oil]

Basically a firehouse to fill a kiddie pool. Not sure the advantage of that if you download occasionally.

You have no idea what someone else's usage or requirements are so it's generally not a good idea to speak about things that you don't know.

 

[Toy4x4]

I was on their site the other day and they had new 300mb package for $50. I selected it and voila.

I saw that, too, on ads that pop up on Yahoo. I've thought about calling them to adjust the speed since I pay $50, but don't know if I want to poke the bear. I don't know why they just don't adjust it automatically. A friend is paying what I pay through Cox, but has 100/10 speed. He says he's fine right now...I just shake my head a little because he could be getting what I'm getting (now more!) for the same $$.

 

[I<3oil]

I saw that, too, on ads that pop up on Yahoo. I've thought about calling them to adjust the speed since I pay $50, but don't know if I want to poke the bear. I don't know why they just don't adjust it automatically. A friend is paying what I pay through Cox, but has 100/10 speed. He says he's fine right now...I just shake my head a little because he could be getting what I'm getting (now more!) for the same $$.

I did it online on my account. Got an email 10mins later. Woo and amen adjust it automatically. They don’t have to give it unless people ask I guess.

 

[nthach]

Latency is significantly worse in most cases, though, so if you do lots of online gaming you might not be happy with it.

Corporate VPNs using IPSec won’t play nice with 5G “home” internet access. Funny enough, Verizon/AT&T/T-Mobile LTE or 5GUW(or UC on T-Mo that combines sub-6GHz and mmWave) is used as a fallback with corporate SD-WANs if the main fiber/metro Ethernet or coax goes down.

It’s how NAT and routing is done on the home/SMB gateways is why. T-Mo is using carrier-grade NAT and weird IPv6 to IPv4 tunneling. Usually, setting MTU to between 1300-1400 fixes this but not always.