 Review by Sebehk 
UPDATED: 1.9 years ago
member for 6.7 years, 3410 visits, last login: a few hours ago
 Bonita,San Diego,CA
 $30 per month
 about 3 days
 "Fast setup, friendly customer support, FAST Internet!"
 "None so far."
 "Cox HSI is awesome!"
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I got tired of paying over $50 for Earthlink DSL. So, I switched over to Cox HSI for the great lower price of $39.99, and 'Net speeds of twice as fast than Earthlink DSL. It took 3 days for install because I was waiting for Cox to call me up after signing up for HSI at BestBuy and buying a Linksys Cable Modem for $99 (free after rebates). But, I called Cox, and the friendly customer service had me surfing within 5 minutes! And that's it! I now recommend Cox HSI for your broadband.
It has been awhile since I've done an update for Cox HSI (San Diego), mainly because I've been in Japan for the last 8 months (I'm in the Navy). During the summer, I have read that Cox upgraded their speeds to 4 Mbps. After doing a speed test, I was amazed to see that almost a year ago, my Cox HSI was twice a slow as it is NOW. My love for Cox HSI gets better and better. I still highly recommend Cox HSI for broadband.
So far so good for Cox HSI. Their 4 Mbps up, and 512 kbps is outstanding.
Cox HSI has been very flaky...occasionally I would have to reset the modem, but most of the time I had to directly connect the modem to the cable coming out of the wall. That always "slapped" the modem to sync with Cox. But, it has been about a month since I had to do that. So far so good.
So far so good, as of October 29, 2005. I love how they just bump up the up/down speeds last year. Only a matter of time when they get it up to 5 megabits.
So far so good, as of May 18, 2006. No big issues with them. But, their Usenet/newsgroup access could be improved. Only a max of 50 KB/sec @ 4 connections is allowed. And sometimes binaries are incomplete or missing (sometimes the PAR files will be of no use).
My family and I moved to Japan as of TWO months ago. So, we don't have Cox. We have Americable Japan (Yokosuka). I cannot change my ISP here on BBR, so I'll just say that Americable Japan is fairly good, but not as good as Cox. We are getting 6 Mbits through Americable, but not always the (near) full speeds we should be seeing, sporadic speeds at different times. When my wife and I are on it simultaneously, we will see a speed-drop, especially when my wife is using torrents the speeds will drop way below the 1 Mbit.
Still in Japan. Americable Japan still sporadic, but most of the time it is steady at 4 Mbits.
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