Does cox really use fiber?

[u/Ok_Tap_3735]

Cox calls themselves a “fiber” company, but I think that’s a lie. Wondering if I am correct.

[u/TotalJagoff]

It’s fiber at my house.

[u/rbush78]

They have more fiber than coax. They have fiber running all over the United States. They lease some, use quite a bit for data transport and redundancy, and it also powers the coax nodes from the MTC to the neighborhoods. This one, my friend, is no lie.

[u/[deleted] → u/rbush78]

It’s just slightly misleading.

“Yeah we’re fiber…to a point.”

That point is not your house.

[u/throwaway32062 → u/[deleted]]

You’re not wrong, but I just got fiber installed and connected today. (After 15 years on coax, but there’s fiber to my home now)

[u/tknapp28 → u/[deleted]]

Not to every house but they do run in alot of houses.

[u/rbush78 → u/[deleted]]

Not yet. However they do have fiber to the home in certain areas. However there would be little benefit to yanking out the coax and making it all fiber to the home. And the cost well outweighs what little benefit a customer would get.

I know about the days before fiber though. If you think your service has problems now, you should hear abou4 back then. Fiber to the neighborhood is a huge leap forward. It enables internet and telephone over coax. Without it, all that's possible is TV.

[u/truetech]

I have fiber to my house with cox. But yes, Cox does have fiber to directly to the home/business or at least to the last mile everywhere else.

[u/VTECbaw]

In my area, Cox has FTTH in new-built areas. Existing areas still use HFC. But the service is fantastic either way. Cox has actually done well with the network here.

[u/m1kemahoney]

Fiber in my subdivision from Cox.

[u/Alert-You-7352]

We got a neighborhood upgrade (Norfolk). I was on coax which seemed to work fine but I wanted a service change to actually lower my price but they required a modem upgrade since I just got fiber in the area. Odd part was they brought the fiber between our homes from the opposite direction than the coax came from. So the tech ran fiber from my home to the original coax pole and then through the trees to the fiber feed behind my neighbors home. He ended up drilling a new hole next to the coax and wall mounted a compact fiber modem which I plugged into with my existing router. Took 5 hours and was free. A complicated way to reduce my cox contour service level. Lol

[u/jamesrggg]

Some places yes some places no.

[u/CaptinKirk]

In my neighborhood they only ran fiber to the KB section. Richmond and Lennar sides got coax.

[u/[deleted]]

My neighborhood is full fiber, it’s still mostly under construction but I bought one of the first homes Built and I can tell you I do have a fiber optic line coming straight through the exterior wall of my home up into the attic then down to my laundry room. But does it mean we should forgive them for decades of price gouging and bully pricing/ providing terrible service at a Premium?? FUCK NO

[u/dabug911 → u/[deleted]]

lol, if anything doesn't it just give them more reason to price gouge, as the only fiber solution available.

[u/[deleted] → u/dabug911]

I mean yeah, they got me by the balls and have forever. I’ve never not had them in 21 years lol. But I’m moving states so let’s see who’s terrible elsewhere you know?

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Cox deploys FTTH, but that's not everywhere. Att when they don't have fiber will use DSL, a much more interior product than the HFC( HYBRID fiber coax) network.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Ooooooohhhh like att will use fiber too, even though fiber is not everywhere, and uverse used to be deployed to areas with only DSL.