Cutting the COX Cable cord.....

[Thomas Vu]

AT&T gigabit has no data cap. I have a gig NIC, and am fully aware I won't use the full extent of it. However, I think at $90/month it's not a bad price.

[pw405]

I've been pretty happy with ATT Gigabit. The door to door guy convinced me when he promised $80/month. The promotional price only last for one year, despite the fact he told me it is for life. Still, performance is indeed near 1000 mbs up/down when running a speed test:



However.. at the end of the day, most will not notice any performance difference over a typical Cox 100/10 connection. HOWEVER... it depends on what your household usage looks like. I like to play online games and broadcast on Twitch/Beam. Having the extra bandwidth to upload does help, as Cox's pathetic 10mbps can be limiting.

If your home has high demands for streaming content, such as 5+ devices streaming 1080p or higher all at the same time, the extra download speed can help. Even then, to stream 4K Netflix, you only need 12mpbs down. Having 100, 150, or 300 is plenty of breathing room.

As others have mentioned, you are often limited more by the server you are downloading from, or your computer's ability to write the content to disk. My fastest real world download (non speed test) has been about 32 Megabytes/second which is still only 250 megabits per second (mbps).

The router/modem combo ATT gives you with their Fiber package is a Pace 5268 AC. It claims 1,700 mbps of total wifi speed. When conducting a Speedtest via wifi on my 802.11 AC phone, I get about 120 mpbs down, 235 mpbs up. Not sure why up is so much faster.

Keep in mind, this total 1.7 Gbps mentioned is the maximum available bandwidth assuming both 2.4 Ghz and 5.8 Ghz frequencies were being used. it would take MANY wifi devices to ever hit this. Would be excellent for a home network hard drive/file server.

I've had the service for ~80 days and I haven't had a single outage. The do have to run a new fiber line into your house, drill a hole in the brick, and place a medium/smallish box on the wall. The installation guy was top notch and didn't creep me out.

TLR - ATT Gigabit is the real deal, but it doesn't really matter for the vast majority of people. It is the only way to get good upload speed in OKC. Service is reliable.

[bchris02]

Anybody experiencing extremely slow speeds on Cox tonight?

Streaming is pretty much impossible at these speeds. Averaging between 400 kbps and 1 Mbps. Paying for 150 Mbps. My upload is fine.

[d-usa]

I don't know how long this has been going on, but I just noticed that Playstation Vue started to stream the News 9 feed. It won't help if your cable/electricity goes out, but it's a nice feature with the weather going on.

[chuck5815]

I don't know how long this has been going on, but I just noticed that Playstation Vue started to stream the News 9 feed. It won't help if your cable/electricity goes out, but it's a nice feature with the weather going on.

i got the trial for ps vue and was pretty underwhelmed with the quality. I have a 4k tv and 300 gb internet, but the picture looked like 480p or maybe 720i. I just can't get interested in the service for that reason.

[d-usa]

What are you running it on?

[chuck5815]

What are you running it on?

Playstation 4 Pro

[FighttheGoodFight]

Playstation 4 Pro

Runs 1080i on my PS4 regular as well as my FireTV. I am on Cox with 150mbps and a 5ghz AC wireless router

[John1744]

That's surprising to hear I thought PS Vue personally looks great. DirecTV got to where I was seeing compression artifacts all the time but Vue appears very crisp, this is on a standard Samsung 1080p LED and a regular PS4.

[Relentless85]

Has anyone tried the DirecTV streaming service? Is it similar to PS Vue?

[ChowRunner]

Are AT&T and Cox still committed to bringing Fiber to their customers? When Google Fiber was on the table it seemed like every other commercial was about gigablast - Now it seems it is hardly mentioned, I hope they havent decided to slow their roll out with google not entering the market.

[sooner88]

Are AT&T and Cox still committed to bringing Fiber to their customers? When Google Fiber was on the table it seemed like every other commercial was about gigablast - Now it seems it is hardly mentioned, I hope they haven't decided to slow their roll out with google not entering the market.

I just got ATT at my house and they ran everything I need for Fiber.

[Ukulele Ike]

I think I'm going to try out the Roku, was hoping the Apple TV would fit the bill, but it sounds disappointing without offering the app store or Hulu support.

i stopped using cable tv about 7 years ago and haven't missed it. i built an hd antenna so i could watch non cable tv. i have cox internet for using roku so i can stream netflix streaming (with dvd) and mlbtv. the $80 per month tv fee is now being saved for important items like truck repairs and trips.

[John1744]

Anyone else had major issues with Cox internet this week? I've been getting massive ping, horrible delays in loading, particularly Twitter media and certain CDN's.

[onthestrip]

Anyone else had major issues with Cox internet this week? I've been getting massive ping, horrible delays in loading, particularly Twitter media and certain CDN's.

Yes

[d-usa]

Same here, Netflix has been a pain to load.

[Lafferty Daniel]

Same with me.

[FighttheGoodFight]

Mine was bad for about 1 day. Twitter and netflix are fine again.

[John1744]

The wife and two kids couldn't handle the jank of having different apps and boxes to watch different stuff so we re-upped with Cox cable. Vue was going up in price to I believe about $40/month anyway. So we would be paying $120/month with internet and PS Vue service. Kinda pitted Cox against what DirecTV was offering me and got 3 rooms, a record 6 DVR, the 100 MB internet package and way more channels than we were able to watch before for $137/month. After 12 months it does go up to $152 as I expected. So I got a better deal than I was expecting. Figure I'll give it a year and hopefully the Internet TV landscape has smoothed out a bit with all the competition coming this year.

[d-usa]

I know this is something that will vary for many people, but I really don't watch more than a handful of channels and found myself paying for 50 more channels just so I can watch 2 more. That's the benefit of Vue for me, it doesn't have as many channels as cable packages, but it has the ones that matter to me.

[d-usa]

Also: I think YouTube Live is available in OKC now, so there is another option for folks.

[chuck5815]

I know this is something that will vary for many people, but I really don't watch more than a handful of channels and found myself paying for 50 more channels just so I can watch 2 more. That's the benefit of Vue for me, it doesn't have as many channels as cable packages, but it has the ones that matter to me.

I just can't get past the streaming quality with a lot of these services. What's the point in buying a 4k tv if you've subscribed to a streaming service that caps out at 720p? I'll gladly pay another $100 per month to get 1080p and, in some cases, 4k broadcasts.

[d-usa]

Running Vue, Netflix, Prime, HBO on a PS4 and regular TV. Never had any quality issues.

[traxx]

Well it looks like Cox and KOCO are in a battle of greed right here on the cusp of the tOSU game.

http://www.koco.com/article/koco-wor...tions/12181931

[shadfar]

Well it looks like Cox and KOCO are in a battle of greed right here on the cusp of the tOSU game.

http://www.koco.com/article/koco-wor...tions/12181931

oh man, heads would role if people can't watch OU on Saturday night..