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Welcome to the forum jx007 
Enjoy your stay here at TMN. 

Welcome to the forum. That is awesome news. What is your DL test looking like? Are you hitting the new speed?

I have loved Cox with never a single problem. They are now sudden link here but still great.

Hello all you Wednesday folk. I posted elsewhere, somewhat off-topic, that I just ordered the Cox 12/1. It's been about 3 days and 6 phone calls since. Now I'm getting about 5.5MB down and the *new* 1MB up. Problem=I already had 5.5MB down...nearly everywhere I tested..or close enough.

Dear Cox didn't hesitate to bill me a mysterious amount 'extra' $14.00  the instant I ordered the upgrade online, and my regular monthly will be a shocking $63.90/month from here on out. Which I'm not thrilled about, naturally...but it's zero benefit to me.

I got the no-longer-unusual runaround on the phone, of course.  Of aprox. 6 calls, I was treated as not entirely stupid by one person in the order department and one tech, but no joy. I will have to 'prove' it to Cox by having numerous truck rolls I suppose. "See? even at Cox/lv no improvement on download speeds whatsoever.".

Naturally I ran Tcp Optimizer as well as Cablenut and tweaked and fiddled proactively . No joy still as of this writing.
Any ideas please? I'm pretty well convinced that since the upgrade didn't even budge the download one bit, that it's at 'their end'. I 'know my beans' in some ways, but this has me stumped.

This an elderly('99), but really solid pc with 512MB Ram and it runs like a top. Please don't hate me for loving WinME. 'She's' as slick as be. Sorry I'm so long-winded this morning. Time for a cuppa and what can I say but thanks for being here and thanks in advance!

 

.......chances are that WinMe wont allow you to go as high as you can - winME, as everyone here knows, is one of the biggest downfalls in the operating system history LOL - and the fact that it is on an older computer might compromise the speed as well - unless it is in tip-top shape

Yeah 

Those speeds that your getting (20-50) are cached (Fake speeds). 

Oops! dlewis23-2 not '-1' much crosst 'T's and dot 'i's

Tommie! I do appreciate the 'thinking' behind that suggestion...one never knows how much another does or doesn't do/know in terms of routine stuff like Temp. file/Cookies/'.tmp' file dump/and all that jazz...but it's a 'religious obligation' with me personally, and done several times daily certainly before and after critical speed tests with a new $ cable plan. Absolutely bloomin' true though tommie..good on ya!! I'm dumb as a box o' rocks occasionally. Don't be surprised  <me, whenever possible.. <me, by definition. And thanks for the 'will fit right in'. I *was* kind of getting the idea that 'she who uses WinME is persona non grata here and everywhere. So, I don't 'tout' it except to say the old adage (as with any system): G.I.G.O.  See you all some more after Cox passes the buck in like fashion...about 17 times...then I'll dump the upgrade and re-have my (so-called) 7/512 gladly. Company in hot tub. Must go make nice. 

How's come I'm shown as a 'New Member' when I've been lurking for ages? Oh, ya...just posted first time within the last few days...still, I'm  not 'new'. Oh well...de nada!
Tommie? You'd have been welcome in the hot tub...I'm sure. Fire up your tele-transporter and bop on down!!

Tommie, I take it that you've met up with the philosopher that states:"Before you judge someone, walk a mile in their shoes....
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'..That way, you'll be a mile away and you'll *have* their shoes"
Plus some skirmish with a really person with really serious foot-fetish problems? If I'm making fun of an actual disability...mea culpa in advance.

You're welcome re: invite ...know what you mean about the tele-transporter thing. Mine's always in the shop.  Oh we're so funny, eh?
P.S. As yet no joy re new download speeds reflecting new price tier...and shant be unless a miracle or Cox decides to stop 'blaming the victims' and get on the stick. No, I haven't called them more than 6 times in last 5 days...but when my company leaves...they'll have a train load of truck rolls 'til *they* cry "uncle!". 

Thank for the 'good luck' wishes...and also with you. Happy Crisp-nin'

Nah that is all fine. A rare few  folks would not even bother responding when it gets fixed. Glad you did, and also said what fixed it too. I also noticed this is the only place to have to clean out the temp files too. But as long as proper speeds are registered, I really am fine with it the way it is also. 
Nothing is really elementary on here, technology is changing constantly daily. So it can't be.