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Cox Internet Down

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 ROGER DODGER helpful negative off topic

2012-10-21 01:05 PM

Here East Side lower..

 

 COMMENT 333874 helpful negative off topic

2012-10-21 01:08 PM

Lower West side was out.

 

 COMMENT 333875P helpful negative off topic

2012-10-21 01:09 PM

Internet, email and phone were out in my house in San Roque until about 20 minutes ago, internet was out in my friend's house in Winchester Canyon this morning; in my store in Goleta near TJ's Cox telephone was out and we couldn't use our credit card machine until about 12:45. Nothing about this on the Cox website.

 

 COMMENT 333876 helpful negative off topic

2012-10-21 01:09 PM

Was out at my house in Noleta all morning. Just got back home and it's back up and running.

 

 COMMENT 333877P helpful negative off topic

2012-10-21 01:09 PM

No Internet either in Goleta by C/O and Lake Los Carneros. Tried calling Cox and got message about problems in Santa Barbara. But at least I can still watch my football.

 

 COMMENT 333878 helpful negative off topic

2012-10-21 01:09 PM

Noleta. Back now.

 

 COMMENT 333879P helpful negative off topic

2012-10-21 01:10 PM

Verizon DSL is way more reliable!

 

 COMMENT 333880P helpful negative off topic

2012-10-21 01:13 PM

I'm near Bishop Diego High School. Mine came back up about 15 minutes ago. Had been down since around 10.

 

 COMMENT 333881 helpful negative off topic

2012-10-21 01:14 PM

San Roque out until about 12:45p.

 

 HOLAZOLA helpful negative off topic

2012-10-21 01:15 PM

just back up here @ Patterson too. That took a while to fix!

 

 COMMENT 333884 helpful negative off topic

2012-10-21 01:19 PM

Out all morning by Cathedral Oaks and 154, mountain side.

 

 COMMENT 333886 helpful negative off topic

2012-10-21 01:19 PM

Was out in Montecito until a few minutes ago.

 

 POWDRELL helpful negative off topic

2012-10-21 01:28 PM

No phones or Internet in Carpinteria most of the Morning. Back up now.

 

 SHOREBIRD helpful negative off topic

2012-10-21 01:30 PM

Turnpike and Calle Real.....so glad that it wasn't my modem as I thought.

 

 COMMENT 333893 helpful negative off topic

2012-10-21 01:31 PM

down since just before 10 this morning, working now in West Goleta.

 

 COMMENT 333895 helpful negative off topic

2012-10-21 01:32 PM

Just came back on by Hendry's. Neighbors son works for Edison and said a drunk driver hit pole.

 

 COMMENT 333898 helpful negative off topic

2012-10-21 01:37 PM

Down all morning... nothing external, was some sort of "bridge" internally at Cox.

 

 COMMENT 333900 helpful negative off topic

2012-10-21 01:40 PM

Ours was out near Magnolia Shopping Center too. Tried calling Cox on the phone, but they were getting so many calls at the time that they couldn't even answer. Just a recorded message saying they were too busy to handle calls, then a "goodbye", and they hung up on me.

Cox has been pretty reliable in the past, but the past few months have been really bad with many outages. They need to be more open with information to let us know what's going on and what they are doing to fix it.

 

 COMMENT 333903P helpful negative off topic

2012-10-21 01:41 PM

With Cox Internet and telephone, it is frustrating when connection is lost. First suspicion is always the modem, but when I tried my phone and it failed, I suspected Cox problems. Unfortunately, without phone or Internet access to Cox, I could not confirm that it was their problem and not mine. I could not even successfully telephone a neighbor to find out if they had lost connection too. I just had to wait. I am in the San Roque area. My ATT service has weakened lately, so I am even having trouble using my cell phone from home. I certainly feel disconnected when I lose phone and Internet access!

 

 COMMENT 333908 helpful negative off topic

2012-10-21 01:46 PM

I'm in Tucker's Grove area and called Cox at around 11 am only to find that they had stopped taking calls due to the high volume. At least cable is still working so I can watch the game until they get my landline and internet back up.

 

 TISHERSELF helpful negative off topic

2012-10-21 02:02 PM

My daughter and I were having lunch at Brophy's and they were down as well.

 

 COMMENT 333919 helpful negative off topic

2012-10-21 02:06 PM

slow-ass internet in San Roque/Hope Ave area

 

 COMMENT 333920 helpful negative off topic

2012-10-21 02:08 PM

You need to call the City if you cant get through. Utilities have certain response time requirements regarding customer service calls.

 

 COMMENT 333925P helpful negative off topic

2012-10-21 02:19 PM

Live near Olive & Valerio---no problems. Seems like other times, electrical power outages nearly always strike other neighborhoods, but not ours. Wonder if somehow that relates here?

 

 COMMENT 333926 helpful negative off topic

2012-10-21 02:20 PM

We are still out of Internet service in Bel AIr Knolls at 2:20 pm. Luckily we have an iPad with Verizon that generates its own hot spot, so we can just use the Verizon wifi on our computers. Apple to the rescue once again. I can't notice any speed decrement from Verizon LTE compared to Cox "high-speed" for $54 a month. Maybe we all should just drop Cox. We should definitely all call and ask for a credit from them.

 

 COMMENT 333929 helpful negative off topic

2012-10-21 02:25 PM

A little before ten this morning I was watching the original, "Hawaii 5-0" on Netflix. It was a perfect Sunday morning with Steve, Danno, Zulu and Chin Ho. Suddenly everything was gone. It's weird how connected we are to the internet.

I'm at home watching reruns of shows that aired in 1972, when in an instant I go back to that age. No computers or internet.

 

 ROGER DODGER helpful negative off topic

2012-10-21 02:27 PM

Verizon can....

 

 COMMENT 333931 helpful negative off topic

2012-10-21 02:29 PM

Was out at Turnpike area from 10:00am to about 1:30pm. Came back, then was out again for another 15 min. Affected phone and internet, but not cable TV. Bundle is not always a good deal. Looks like Edhat was down too like us normal mortals, when I checked Edhat on my mobile after Cox played a message. to call back later

 

 COMMENT 333934 helpful negative off topic

2012-10-21 02:40 PM

My Cox internet service was down this morning. Tried resetting the cable modem to no avail. Service came back up sometime after noon. We live near APS on the east side.

 

 COMMENT 333943P helpful negative off topic

2012-10-21 03:06 PM

Verizon humming all day long.....

 

 COMMENT 333945 helpful negative off topic

2012-10-21 03:07 PM

I certainly would not look at one outage and fault Cox. We have reliable high speed service from Cox. Yes, today they were out for a couple hours. Verizon was never high speed, In fact they were reliably poor.

 

 COMMENT 333946 helpful negative off topic

2012-10-21 03:10 PM

Our montecito cox Internet service was out this morning but restored by 3:00pm

 

 COMMENT 333893 helpful negative off topic

2012-10-21 03:15 PM

I have just emailed Cox requesting that they issue an apology for today's outage to all of their customers. Let's see if they give a darn.

 

 CEES helpful negative off topic

2012-10-21 03:15 PM

I wish there was a way to find out whether it is a Cox problem or our internal modem. I was ready to go through the process to reset our modem/router, but decided to wait awhile. Now I see all these comments from others. (It is working again for us.) I'm on the Mesa and do lose internet service from Cox somewhat regularly.

 

 COMMENT 333983P helpful negative off topic

2012-10-21 04:13 PM

Verizon DSL always works during good weather. The problems start when it rains.

 

 CHERIDIANE helpful negative off topic

2012-10-21 04:36 PM

Our COX Internet and phone service were out most of the day. Phone came back about noon but not the Internet until hours later. We're near SB High.

 

 COMMENT 333994 helpful negative off topic

2012-10-21 04:41 PM

I thought internet outages were just a fact of life, but then I move to LA from mid-2011-2012. Wow...not even a hiccup with Time Warner, compared with fairly regular outages from Cox. I'm back in SB now, and Cox seems to be doing everything it can to remind me what a poor service provider they are.

 

 COMMENT 334000 helpful negative off topic

2012-10-21 04:56 PM

Gone the whole morning in Goleta. They need to deduct from the monthly bill IMHO.

 

 COMMENT 334001P helpful negative off topic

2012-10-21 04:58 PM

Hope Ranch was out too!

 

 COMMENT 333926 helpful negative off topic

2012-10-21 05:13 PM

My internet service never came back after the outage, so I called Cox. After two hangups (coincidence?), the technician suggested the outage could have blown my splitter. They were right and I directly connected my cable to the modem and I am back on line. Now I can't watch TV, but I do have internet.

 

 COMMENT 334032 helpful negative off topic

2012-10-21 07:09 PM

I'm a little late to this thread, but I drove to my office to download and print some files around noon (near Lemo's) and yhevinternet was down. Total waste of my time.

 

 REDTOP helpful negative off topic

2012-10-21 07:58 PM

We've had very little Internet connection all day today downtown. Boo Cox!!'

 

 COMMENT 334115P helpful negative off topic

2012-10-22 06:37 AM

It was down in Montecito too. Sorry to say this, but I feel better knowing others' were down as well...

 

 COMMENT 334128P helpful negative off topic

2012-10-22 07:11 AM

Our internet was out most of the mid-part of Sunday, and we live in the Samarkand neighborhood, so it sounds like Cox really annoyed many customers all over town.

 

 COMMENT 334140 helpful negative off topic

2012-10-22 07:45 AM

I spoke with Cox yesterday, after waiting on hold for 20 min, and was told that all of So Cal was out, due to a truck hitting some cox apparatus.

 

 UPONTHEHILL helpful negative off topic

2012-10-22 07:49 AM

Our internet was down on the Riviera, but we had television.

 

 COMMENT 334146 helpful negative off topic

2012-10-22 07:52 AM

cox apparatus would be a good name for a band...

 

 COMMENT 334149 helpful negative off topic

2012-10-22 07:55 AM

Ours is out! quinto street by oak park and the hospital. We have issues with our Cox internet DAILY. - it will suddenly vanish. One minute we have it and then... We want to change but we get busy, caught up with other stuff, and we don't do anything about it. We only remember we hate Cox when the internet is suddenly non- existant AGAIN

 

 COMMENT 334152 helpful negative off topic

2012-10-22 08:10 AM

It would have been helpful if Cox's recorded message referred to the problem and that they were working on it, rather than "due to a high volume of calls we are not able to take your call"; bad customer service.

 

 COMMENT 334244 helpful negative off topic

2012-10-22 10:41 AM

It was out on the Riviera near the El Encanto and Marymount from 10am until 1pm:
No telephone
No internet But the cable tv was ok

 

 COMMENT 334287 helpful negative off topic

2012-10-22 11:49 AM

Cox told us someone hit a pole.

 

 ROGER DODGER helpful negative off topic

2012-10-22 11:50 AM

I remember years ago I had verizon dial up I think that is what it was called 10 bucks a month. I wanted Verizon high speed and they told me that I was too far away from their offices downtown to recieve it. I had a neighbor further away from me that got it..Liers! Many years ago I had my identity ripped and phone service from verizon was stolen in my name..I played Hell and High Water getting phone service from them after that I had to file this that the otter thang took months yet I was the victim! How could they accept someones personal ss cards and cdl numbers over the phone by someone claimming to be a spouce when I have never been married is beyond me. Any time I have ever gotton a utlity in my name I always showed up with cash and picture ID. I should have sued Verizon for the way they treated me. I'll take Cox anyday the lesser of two evils.. :)

 

 COMMENT 334325 helpful negative off topic

2012-10-22 01:06 PM

We have Cox at our business which runs 24/7. We lost all our phones. We were assured when we signed up for the service that there was a back-up to keep phones going - there was no back-up. All the lines were just dead static. We lost business. We will now be removing Cox. The frickin' power company has a message that tells customers that they are aware of a shortage and even how long it may take to fix. Cox couldn't even do this. Well, lesson learned.

 

 COMMENT 334434 helpful negative off topic

2012-10-22 05:11 PM

We still have no internet on San Marcos Rd.... Tried "rebooting" everything and cox tried a reset. Can't get anyone there 'til Tues... :(

 

 COMMENT 334614 helpful negative off topic

2012-10-23 10:03 AM

To "325" 1) Agreed about the message - if it is true that "all of So Cal was out", or even if part of SB was out, a simple recording would inform customers and free up the lines for other service problems 2) WRT to power backup - it works fine if there is a signal to the phone modem, but no signal - no phone, backup or not.

To Cox - I agree with others that your customer service has deteriorated significantly in the past 2 years, while your prices continue to soar, even as options for content become more plentiful and available. High speed or not - your days may be numbered. Also - get the rights to broadcast the Laker games, or your days here are numbered.

 

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