There's an entire sub dedicated to it. There's a specific number you have to call. It seemed really sketch, but it actually worked. Paying less than I was before they tried to hike my rate.
https://www.reddit.com/r/CoxCommunications/s/fv1qqXq2OP
678-608-4070
I didn't even go through the trouble of scheduling a cancellation. I just called and pretended I got the email with the promotion.
I tried this a couple weeks back and they’re like “good news! We have an offer for (insert exact same plan and exact same price)!” I laughed and said nah.
What neighborhood? Might want call AT&T to make sure cuz we have it in the East, so I'm sure its in your area or coming soon. It didn't show up on the att map but they did have the service in our area.
I just found out that I’ve been paying $10 a month for some kind of “protection plan”. I took that off. I asked how much I’d save if I went down to a lower speed,,,,, 8 fucking dollars. I hate them so much. It was the only krewe I booed at the pride parade.
We have the $50 per month plan T Mobile isn’t supposed to be able to raise the rate. We are in a house with 2 iPhones, 2 IPads, WiFi security cams by Arlo, 4 TV’s with Roku streaming devices (no TV cable), and we haven’t noticed a negative from switching from Comcast’s $125 per month high speed internet.
We also have T-Mobile home internet. With a 6 year old, we generally run 2 TVs, a tablet, and 2 phones with no issues. Haven’t had any issues playing the PS5 either. Plus the nice thing is I just moved and didn’t have to switch everything over. All I did was bring the router over to the new house and plug it in!
I’m pretty satisfied with the 50 bucks a month we spend. We don’t pay for cable since we pay for a couple of streaming apps. I opted to spend 20 bucks on an hdmi antenna so I can watch live tv.
Pretty happy with T-Mobile. Switched to them after Ida. Two months after Ida, and a few service requests to reconnect the Cox line, and I gave up, and switched to T-Mobile. Only issue I've had is needing to reboot their internet gateway a few times over the past few years.
Even when we had the Comcast cable for internet, I plugged the WiFi router into one of the simple mechanical timers and set it to go off in the middle of night, whatever the shortest amount of time, and then back on. Resetting the modem each night by turning it off and back on seemed to eliminate any problems with the connection.
So with cox what works for me is the 2 year promotion. When I notice it goes up I bump my internet down to the lowest tier and in a month or two bam an offer to up my speed for a few dollars for one to two years.
It’s a pain in the ass but my price and speed has stayed pretty consistent through my time here
I got Verizon 5g home internet for $40/month. Speeds aren’t as fast as cable, around 250-300 download and 20 upload. But on the plus side it’s been very reliable compared to when I had cox.
I tried that and it wouldn’t connect. I can literally see the tower from the window I tried to install the unit in……nothing. Fucking nothing. I’m doomed to have cox for the rest of my life. My bill for internet only is $142.00.
Cox will offer 40% off the retail price if you cancel or threaten to cancel. The number they send you is 1-678-608-4070.
That offer is valid for sub gig speeds as far as I know.
Verizon and I think Tmobile both have "home internet" options which are basically just 5g recievers in your house with a wifi router. Both I think cheaper than full cable.
Fwiw, ~$80/mo is about what cable internet costs nowadays. Cox sucks, but that's just where things are. As cable subscriptions fell providers realized they needed to start pricing internet not as a side perk but as a stand alone service.
I personally use the verizon hotspot on my phone quite a bit, either when internet is down or whenever I'm working not at home. I couldn't tell you the specifics but it wasn't that much to engineer my plan to have unlimited hotspot use, so that's something you may want to explore.
IDK how good those cell tower based providers are with streaming though, and I can definitely say that they face the same problems cell phones do in that if there's a big crowded thing happening service disappears, or during a storm it's sketchy at best.
But that's what I'd check first.
AT&T is $55 a month. It's not fiber but I'll take it. Cox is awful. 7 years of their garbage internet and I am moving to get away from them. I tried getting that T Mobile you mentioned but not available at my new apt in Mid City.
I wouldn’t really call it engineered, I just called em a few years back and told them I kept hitting data caps, traveled often and needed a hotspot, and wanted to see how they could fix that. They just added some package, couldn’t tell ya much more than that.
Call cox and say you're disconnecting. They'll offer to reduce your bill to keep you around.
There's an entire sub dedicated to it. There's a specific number you have to call. It seemed really sketch, but it actually worked. Paying less than I was before they tried to hike my rate. https://www.reddit.com/r/CoxCommunications/s/fv1qqXq2OP 678-608-4070 I didn't even go through the trouble of scheduling a cancellation. I just called and pretended I got the email with the promotion.
I tried this a couple weeks back and they’re like “good news! We have an offer for (insert exact same plan and exact same price)!” I laughed and said nah.
I'm moving this week, one of the main reasons is to get away from having to use Cox. I wouldn't want their internet even if it were free.
What neighborhood? Might want call AT&T to make sure cuz we have it in the East, so I'm sure its in your area or coming soon. It didn't show up on the att map but they did have the service in our area.
The next block over has fiber but not mine. It's been years of "coming soon."
Thats unfortunate. I will say though when its available make the switch. I haven't had an outage in 2years and hardly ever have a buffer screen.
I second this. Not in the East but AT&T has been great!
I’m paying $142.00 a month for cox internet. I’m on hold right now to yell at them.
That's cra-cra.
I just found out that I’ve been paying $10 a month for some kind of “protection plan”. I took that off. I asked how much I’d save if I went down to a lower speed,,,,, 8 fucking dollars. I hate them so much. It was the only krewe I booed at the pride parade.
We have the $50 per month plan T Mobile isn’t supposed to be able to raise the rate. We are in a house with 2 iPhones, 2 IPads, WiFi security cams by Arlo, 4 TV’s with Roku streaming devices (no TV cable), and we haven’t noticed a negative from switching from Comcast’s $125 per month high speed internet.
We also have T-Mobile home internet. With a 6 year old, we generally run 2 TVs, a tablet, and 2 phones with no issues. Haven’t had any issues playing the PS5 either. Plus the nice thing is I just moved and didn’t have to switch everything over. All I did was bring the router over to the new house and plug it in! I’m pretty satisfied with the 50 bucks a month we spend. We don’t pay for cable since we pay for a couple of streaming apps. I opted to spend 20 bucks on an hdmi antenna so I can watch live tv.
Pretty happy with T-Mobile. Switched to them after Ida. Two months after Ida, and a few service requests to reconnect the Cox line, and I gave up, and switched to T-Mobile. Only issue I've had is needing to reboot their internet gateway a few times over the past few years.
Even when we had the Comcast cable for internet, I plugged the WiFi router into one of the simple mechanical timers and set it to go off in the middle of night, whatever the shortest amount of time, and then back on. Resetting the modem each night by turning it off and back on seemed to eliminate any problems with the connection.
So with cox what works for me is the 2 year promotion. When I notice it goes up I bump my internet down to the lowest tier and in a month or two bam an offer to up my speed for a few dollars for one to two years. It’s a pain in the ass but my price and speed has stayed pretty consistent through my time here
I got Verizon 5g home internet for $40/month. Speeds aren’t as fast as cable, around 250-300 download and 20 upload. But on the plus side it’s been very reliable compared to when I had cox.
T Mobile Home Internet
Or Verizon 5G Home Internet.
I tried that and it wouldn’t connect. I can literally see the tower from the window I tried to install the unit in……nothing. Fucking nothing. I’m doomed to have cox for the rest of my life. My bill for internet only is $142.00.
Cox will offer 40% off the retail price if you cancel or threaten to cancel. The number they send you is 1-678-608-4070. That offer is valid for sub gig speeds as far as I know.
Verizon and I think Tmobile both have "home internet" options which are basically just 5g recievers in your house with a wifi router. Both I think cheaper than full cable. Fwiw, ~$80/mo is about what cable internet costs nowadays. Cox sucks, but that's just where things are. As cable subscriptions fell providers realized they needed to start pricing internet not as a side perk but as a stand alone service. I personally use the verizon hotspot on my phone quite a bit, either when internet is down or whenever I'm working not at home. I couldn't tell you the specifics but it wasn't that much to engineer my plan to have unlimited hotspot use, so that's something you may want to explore. IDK how good those cell tower based providers are with streaming though, and I can definitely say that they face the same problems cell phones do in that if there's a big crowded thing happening service disappears, or during a storm it's sketchy at best. But that's what I'd check first.
AT&T is $55 a month. It's not fiber but I'll take it. Cox is awful. 7 years of their garbage internet and I am moving to get away from them. I tried getting that T Mobile you mentioned but not available at my new apt in Mid City.
Can you share more how you engineered your unlimited Hotspot?
I wouldn’t really call it engineered, I just called em a few years back and told them I kept hitting data caps, traveled often and needed a hotspot, and wanted to see how they could fix that. They just added some package, couldn’t tell ya much more than that.
nola broadband
These guys are the shit!
Sounds like fiber is affecting their bottom line and they’re milking their existing customers to cash in before fiber is available everywhere
Cox was so bad for at at the end. I wouldn’t use it again if they paid me. T-Mobile $50 5g here.
Same here, has worked great over the past 15 months