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Cox Ups its Broadband Speeds

by Tom Conlon on June 15, 2007 at 03:58 PM

Cox Ups Its Broadband SpeedsCox has fired up the left blinker and is turning into the fast lane, now offering speedier versions of its cable Internet service in a bid to compete with speed boosts recently deployed by Comcast and Verizon. Preferred plan customers will now see download speeds up to 9 mbps, while Premier plan customers will download at up to 15 mbps. At 15 mbps, you can download a song file in about two seconds, and a feature-length movie in about seven minutes. Comparatively, that same movie would take two-and-half hours on a 768 kbps DSL connection, but only three-and-a-half minutes on a lightning fast Verizon FiOS hookup.

In addition to competing on the faster, more expensive end of things, Cox has also introduced an Economy plan to compete with DSL. The Economy package downloads at speeds of up to 768 kbps.

To see how Cox's new numbers stack up against the competition, we've compiled this handy chart

Cox 768 kbps 1.5 mbps 9 mbps 15 mbps
Adelphia 4 mpbs 6 mbps
Charter 3 mbps 5 mbps 10 mbps
Comcast 12 mbps* 16 mbps*
Earthlink 768 kbps 5 mbps 8 mbps
Optimum/Cablevision 15 mbps 30 mbps
Time Warner 7 mbps
Verizon FIOS 5 mbps 15 mbps 30 mbps
* Indicates a speed boost on the first 10 megabytes of large downloads. After that, speeds slow to 6mbps and 8mbps respectively.

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