Cox Business (or any cable provider for that matter): Possible to Interchance Upstream and Downstream?

Cox Business (or any cable provider for that matter): Possible to Interchance Upstream and Downstream?

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Cox Business (or any cable provider for that matter): Possible to Interchance Upstream and Downstream? artemidorus 02-21-2006
Posted by artemidorus on February 21, 2006, 1:47 pm
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I have Cox Business service that gets me like 7-8Mb downstream and 2Mb
upstream... Because my service is primarily occupied with outbound web
traffic (almost constantly saturating the 2Mb link), I'm curious if
it's possible to have Cox reverse my connection to give me 2Mb
down/7-8Mb up? If not, is anyone aware of small business internet
connectivity in NoVA that allows web/smtp hosting and such (not port
filtered like the home service) for ~$200/mo that would greatly improve
my upstream? Thanks.


Posted by DLR on February 21, 2006, 4:56 pm
artemidorus wrote:
> I have Cox Business service that gets me like 7-8Mb downstream and 2Mb
> upstream... Because my service is primarily occupied with outbound web
> traffic (almost constantly saturating the 2Mb link), I'm curious if
> it's possible to have Cox reverse my connection to give me 2Mb
> down/7-8Mb up? If not, is anyone aware of small business internet
> connectivity in NoVA that allows web/smtp hosting and such (not port
> filtered like the home service) for ~$200/mo that would greatly improve
> my upstream? Thanks.
>
I'm betting that if you need more than 2mbit outbound, you should really
be looking at colo. That's a LOT of outbound traffic.

Posted by artemidorus on February 21, 2006, 6:49 pm

DLR wrote:
> artemidorus wrote:
> > I have Cox Business service that gets me like 7-8Mb downstream and 2Mb
> > upstream... Because my service is primarily occupied with outbound web
> > traffic (almost constantly saturating the 2Mb link), I'm curious if
> > it's possible to have Cox reverse my connection to give me 2Mb
> > down/7-8Mb up? If not, is anyone aware of small business internet
> > connectivity in NoVA that allows web/smtp hosting and such (not port
> > filtered like the home service) for ~$200/mo that would greatly improve
> > my upstream? Thanks.
> >
> I'm betting that if you need more than 2mbit outbound, you should really
> be looking at colo. That's a LOT of outbound traffic.

Something I don't know would be nice... I'm aware that there are other
options--though most of them are far outside my stated budget. My goal
here is to find out if it's possible to reverse my cable connection,
and, if so, how to tell Cox to do it...


Posted by DLR on February 21, 2006, 9:57 pm
artemidorus wrote:
> DLR wrote:
>> artemidorus wrote:
>>> I have Cox Business service that gets me like 7-8Mb downstream and 2Mb
>>> upstream... Because my service is primarily occupied with outbound web
>>> traffic (almost constantly saturating the 2Mb link), I'm curious if
>>> it's possible to have Cox reverse my connection to give me 2Mb
>>> down/7-8Mb up? If not, is anyone aware of small business internet
>>> connectivity in NoVA that allows web/smtp hosting and such (not port
>>> filtered like the home service) for ~$200/mo that would greatly improve
>>> my upstream? Thanks.
>>>
>> I'm betting that if you need more than 2mbit outbound, you should really
>> be looking at colo. That's a LOT of outbound traffic.
>
> Something I don't know would be nice... I'm aware that there are other
> options--though most of them are far outside my stated budget. My goal
> here is to find out if it's possible to reverse my cable connection,
> and, if so, how to tell Cox to do it...
>
No. The equipment is all designed to typical non server use to be more
inbound to you than outbound from you as that's the typical traffic
patterns.

Posted by on February 22, 2006, 12:13 pm
>
> I'm curious if
> it's possible to have Cox reverse my connection to give me 2Mb
> down/7-8Mb up?

No. DOCSIS 1 (which is what nearly all cable modems are currently
using) only provides about 1/4 as much upstream bandwidth as downstream
bandwidth. DOCSIS 2 increases the upstream to about 3/4 the downstream,
which will be a big help, but it requires the cable company to replace
all of the equipment at the head end (and any modems that are to use the
increased bandwidth). I haven't heard of anyone supporting it yet.

-Larry Jones

I like Mom to be impressed when I fulfill the least of my obligations.
-- Calvin

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