Intermittent Internet

[docellis]

I have Cox High Speed Internet (cable) at 1.5 MB.

i think the suggestion of getting their billing dept. involved will eventually solve it. if you fight paying for internet you are not getting i bet they will work a lot harder at solving this.

[Jocephus]

cox is awful

[cardsfansince82]

cox is awful

Actually I have been a Cox customer for probably 5 years dating back to when I lived in Tulsa and was going to college. I've always been very happy with them (at least as happy as someone can be with a cable/internet provider) until the last couple months. It might be one of those things where I was lucky to never have any problems and didn't know any better, though.

[letsgocards89]

Other possible sources of interference are your microwave and wireless telephones. (not cell phones) Wireless telephones often operate at 2.4Ghz which is the same frequency wireless B and wireless G routers use.

[ghostrunner]

It turned out that the dusk to dawn light on my porch was the culprit. I had recently used one of those low energy coiled bulbs in the porch light. I don't know why, but that light kills my internet connection.

I thought you were nuts, but I looked it up and it's real. I didn't realize those lights used radio frequencies.

Eh? What frequency? Is it supposed to interfere with wireless routers?

Yep.
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2002 ... 00734.html


http://community.bouldernews.com/business/02bwire.html

Headsets and other gadgets using the Bluetooth standard, newer cordless phones and microwave-powered, energy-saving light bulbs share the 2.4 to 2.483.5 gigahertz frequency range used by Wi-Fi. Household microwave ovens use radio waves in that range to heat leftovers.