Re: cutting off my Cox; the DVR that died

On 2025-07-23 04:09:44 +0000, anim8rfsk said:

Since Cox dumped our email service a year or two ago the brand really
doesn’t matter so much to me anymore. And every possible avenue results in
me losing the DVR and all the accrued programming so I see no point in
keeping the service.

I could never get my head around DVR's and recording a lot of TV programming that you may or may not be interested in viewing at some point in the distant future. I would guess the majority of people who do that never get around to watching most of what's recorded.
My cable provider offers a "CatchUp TV" feature that they say saves all the channels they offer (unless a channel doesn't allow it for whatever contractual reasons) on their end for 4 or 5 days. I use that quite a bit so I can watch TV on my schedule when it's more convenient, but rarely for something more than two days old (kind of a PITB to scroll back farther than that anyway).

Almost exactly 2 years ago Cox did some maintenance outside and when they
put things back together, they put the wrong limiter clip in my external
cable box. I had for years had the 500 Mbps service and they knocked me
back to my previous service of 300 Mbps.

Ever since my provider upgraded me (forcefully, I was one of the last holdouts) to fiber about a year ago I've been coasting along at 635/download, 436/upload.