I was like, FTW!?

I simply released IP from my router, renewed with a diff IP and was back in working order. No need to call the number.

I got the disconnect screen from the article today when I woke up and tried to get on the internet, and I did the same thing. Just went through the automatic menu for resolving connection problems, and after it reset my modem, then had me reboot my router and computer, it started working again.

Never had to talk to anyone. Not sure if fixing this way avoids you getting a “strike” on your account, but I installed PeerGuardian2, and immediately started downloading tonight’s True Blood, which was the show that I got the notice for.

Fuck em. :D

That’s what I’d like to know. I live in the 5th largest city in the U.S. and … there is ONE cable provider – Cox. There is one DSL provider – Qwest and they have 1/10th the city covered.

Cox is bad enough that DSL is a improvement. But there isn’t a shot that I will ever get DSL within the next 2 decades and by then something has improved. Half of my area uses satellite because Cox is so bad.

Whoever eliminated competition for isp’s deserves to have dial up only for the rest of their natural days.

Anyways, as bad as it is, it’s much better than the alternatives.

ProTip: Use private trackers.

What I don’t get is how I subscribe to their top tier package AND subscribe to all their cable channels AND phone. I spend $200/month and they just want to kick me to the curb because of some letter from some movie watchdogs. What interest does the ISP have in actually disconnecting their customers? :/

These guys REALLY love the Cox.

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A friend online sent me this screenshot. He asks support a question and they just leave. Just another reason to hate these guys.

Here is the truth, Mr. 24: most bandwidth today is taken up by BUSINESS USERS (proven by on weekends, my speeds got THROUGH THE FUCKING ROOF!).

Secondly, pirates do NOT use 100 times more bandwidth than 95% of their customers.

Third, this is setting them up for a lawsuit, period and done with. A big class action lawsuit as well…. which will bankrupt Cox.

And after you submit it once you can resend it a few times.

They really do need intelligence tests before they allow people to post on these sites. Especially on specialized areas such as the law. If you want to be a legal analyst, go get your J.D.

See how they like getting Cox-blocked.

Maybe I could put in terms any retard can understand. If I was coming into your home and stealing your property and you caught me and told me not to do it again or there would be consequences, but I did not listen and I stole from you again, would you not take some type of action to prevent it from happening again?

The ISP has to protect themselves from thiefing morons who think just because it can be downloaded, it should be free.

Exactly what I was just thinking…

Make a list of the netblocks in use by Cox and filter out those that aren’t assigned to customers (easy). Go find some TV listings to find out what is on HBO (their favorite claimant) and make a form letter. Fire off thousands of emails to Cox claiming some random combo of shows for every IP address. Send several per address over a few days, differing shows and random number per address so it doesn’t all just look like one big spam. Send all these emails through whatever relays can be found, or maybe borrow a botnet to send them so they are very spread. Cox can either act on them all and cut everyone, guaranteeing some percentage of their customers will never come back, or they can change their policy. If by some chance they decide to ignore them, just keep sending the spoof takedowns as that’ll at least act to mask the real takedown from the *AA.

Cox = 0wned
Cox can go sux my cox.

I am not an ISP, yet I can source plentiful (dedicated) bandwidth very cheaply at numerous datacenters around the world. If I can eat up a 100mbit line 24/7 for 140 euros (~$200) a month, that represents 35 terabytes both ways. 35 terabytes is a LOT of data and can support a staggering number of residential users, even pirates. I would figure anywhere between 100 and 500 users, depending on how quickly they can buy additional hard drives :) That means my cost per-user would be at most $2.00, down to $0.20 or less for moderate users.

Why then, do these huge American networks charge a fortune for pathetic service ? Infrastructure, that’s why. They need to upgrade the lines going to people’s homes and offices. That’s the bottleneck! Downloading would not matter if those lazy gluttons had a fast network to support it all.

First time it happened I came home to no working internet. A call to customer service took me through multiple people before someone said my account was flagged for security violation. So, got the number for that dept and called them. They said I was downloading some TV show from HBO which I’ve never even heard of. They also said they notified me by email. Funny, I never gave them my email address when I started service, so I asked them what addresss. Turns out they made an email account for me with my full name as address, and a password of “password” and it had been publicly available for 2 years that way. So I looked, and sure enough there was some BS notice. I told them this was all a lot of shit and they restored my internet access, but warned me of the three strikes. Nevermind that I didn’t do anything to get the first.

Fast forward a half a year. I’m out of town on a business trip, and expect to be able to remote control my home machine as needed. It disappears off the internet a half week before I’m to return. Crashed? No, its Cox again, being cocksuckers. I get home to find the machine is running and the internet is cut off. Since the last time, I had set the Cox email account to forward to gmail, but no notice had ever come. So I called them and they said I was downloading some other HBO crap I’ve never heard of. I don’t have a cable nor a TV, so no surprise I have no idea what’s on. But maybe that’s why they hassle me, to try to make me buy cable TV from them. Anyway, they said they sent notice, but I told them they are full of shit because there is no email. I demanded they restore my access, and they did but warned me I only had one chance. I told them I need credit for denied service but they refuse they are responsible, even though they did this crap on their own.

So, I talked to Qwest and found out that in the years since I moved in, not only did they wire the area for DSL, but they did so with FTTN which was going active in a month. I ordered the service, started at 7/1mb and then got bumped up to 12/1mb within a month, the same speed Cox offers but for $20/month less and not shared with my neighbors. As soon as I had everything going with Qwest, I canceled Cox. Cox then proceeded to bill me another month, so I called them, chewed them out on the phone, and demanded my money returned along with the partial amount for the month during which I canceled them. They said a refund takes 3-4 months, but would expedite mine so it would only be 6-8 weeks. I told them that if I didn’t have it in a month, they were going to court for their crocked business practices, and my check arrived in exactly 30 days.

With all that done, I proceeded to disconnect them my way. I removed all the coax on the outside of my house, and their big ugly gray box, and threw it all in the trash. Then I grabbed the cable coming from the conduit in the ground, stretched it out as far as I could, and snipped it off, letting the free end snap back down the tube. If they want to serve this address again, which won’t happen until I move, they have to come excavate and make a new run from across the street at their expense. Cox, you can suck my cock! DISCONNECTED!

Cox does not do any packet sniffing. They do however watch customers who use a lot of bandwidth. At that point they start to packet sniff your connection trying to make sure your using it for legal reasons. If found otherwise then you will be disconnected.

I have since moved onto Pirvate torrents and private ftps which use ImplicitSSL which means that the ISP cannot sniff my ftp traffic and I use ssl to connect to my torrent sites.

Erland

I have had my connection turned off twice.

1st time I jumpped on DC++ and accidentally went into a public room and didn’t mean to. I was reported for having 2 programs.

2nd time I was showing a friend how to use grims ping and instead of 192.168.0.x I scanned 193.168.0.x I noticed this about 10 seconds later and cut off the scan. I was turned off on Christmas day and not turned back on until after the holidays.

Basically If I have your IP address and report it to cox with doctored log files I can get your internet cut off. They do not verify anything when someone reports that you have been doing bad on your connection.

The 3 strikes policy is actually 3 strikes in a 6 month period but they don’t tell you this. My little brother has had 2 strikes in 3 months. One of his 4 room mates kept on downloading from limewire. All you have to do is call up the Internet customer support and ask why your internet is cut off. If they don’t know hang up and call again till you get an agent that is competent. Once you do just tell them you reset your router and forgot to password protect it. Give them a stupid my kid did it. That’s what I did and I didn’t even have kids at the time. lol.

Cox really isn’t as bad as they are made out to be but they do, do as accused.

Erland

I showed them how to use torrents and they have yet to get another notice in the last year and a half.

” 103 Oct 01, 2008 at 15:49 by kizinky4

um… isnt it illegal. so we are mad because someone isnt letting us get away with something we shouldnt be doing.. Cox also helps track child pornography violater on the internet.. should they stop doing that too? Hope its not your kid they are after!
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Nice analogy. Sharing files, in your mind, is as bad as sexually abusing children? I guess that fits, considering a lot more money gets spent on tracking down filesharers.