Anyone made the comparison... or made the switch? Level 3 seems a bit too good to be true.

Exactly my take on it -- not that they're scammers necessarily, but that it may not last. Switching back and forth is a hassle I don't need. I told my wife "After they've been around a year or two, maybe".

Anyone remember the short Cox foray into cellular? Folks who fell for that one were sorry!

I hear Level 3.1 is coming out soon and will fix all the bugs. Or just wait for Level 4.

Wait 4it Wrote:
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> I hear Level 3.1 is coming out soon and will fix
> all the bugs. Or just wait for Level 4.


Which means you have no idea what the name Level 3 actually represents.

They serve Fairfax County and offer 100 mps net for $69 a month undercutting Cox and Verizon.

Greybeard Wrote:
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> Exactly my take on it -- not that they're scammers
> necessarily, but that it may not last. Switching
> back and forth is a hassle I don't need. I told my
> wife "After they've been around a year or two,
> maybe".
>
> Anyone remember the short Cox foray into cellular?
> Folks who fell for that one were sorry!


Level 3 is huge and has been around a lot longer than 'a year or two.'

Cox is a joke in comparison.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Level_3_Communications

Called Them Wrote:
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> They serve Fairfax County and offer 100 mps net
> for $69 a month undercutting Cox and Verizon.


You can get 1 gig FIOS service now for the same cost as either a new customer or by switching the name on the account.

Tier 1 Wrote:
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> Level 3 is huge and has been around a lot longer
> than 'a year or two.'
>
> Cox is a joke in comparison.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Level_3_Communicatio
> ns

Yeah, I knew that...I meant "as a cable provider in Fairfax County'. What's interesting is that Level 3 and Cox have a relationship--a friend thought that Level 3 was using Cox's infrastructure, but it may be the other way around?! Some quick Googling didn't help, but maybe I missed it.

Greybeard Wrote:
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> Tier 1 Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Level 3 is huge and has been around a lot
> longer
> > than 'a year or two.'
> >
> > Cox is a joke in comparison.
> >
> >
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Level_3_Communicatio
>
> > ns
>
> Yeah, I knew that...I meant "as a cable provider
> in Fairfax County'. What's interesting is that
> Level 3 and Cox have a relationship--a friend
> thought that Level 3 was using Cox's
> infrastructure, but it may be the other way
> around?! Some quick Googling didn't help, but
> maybe I missed it.


In the past Level 3 provided backbone service and dark fiber to Cox. Probably still do. Cox provided local 'last mile' connections to customers over its own infrastructure.

Don't know what's happening now since CenturyLink is buying/merging with L3 and it's more of a direct competitor to Cox. Cox likely will continue to use L3's back-end fiber (among others) since they don't have that kind of a national network. Not sure how CenturyLink/L3 is getting to customers around here.

You guys are so confused.

Layer 3 is the Cox competitor, not Level 3. For retail/home service.

well over 20 years ago, during Bill Clinton, Microsoft 1/2 owned Cox Cable signal attacked me: they SIGNAL BLOCKED MY WEBSITE, EMAIL SERVER, INTERNET BACKBONE SERVER, AND OTHER SERVERS using the brute force of the most inner equipment / hubs.

the held these for ransom saying if I paid then $110 / mo. they'd re-enable them (i neither had the money, due to democrats giving jobs to illegals: nor will submit to being blackmailed to un-disable something that is naturally enabled and was free in the past)

they did this while using tax money (to draw in illegals into VA so they could get - and gave illegals the money and right to buy IT and run websites)

IF THEY RE-ENABLE IT here well over 20 years later

will it make a difference in my life, being over 20 years of oppression later?

recently COX signal attacked my old linux box: after upgrade it no longer works as a server (ipv4 is no longer supported)

they said "it was to protect Windows 95 computers that had no security"

(that was also a lie, in that selling an OS that continually locked-up with no security - icrosoft staff should have been jailed for doing it: but moreso attacking people who bought other products and not issuing a re-call (then using tax payer money and gov jobs to fix the security) - just shows what democrats are cappable of)

(that was also a lie, as security "firewall" programs were free to download)

the fact is microsoft execs got rich, built mansions and did NOT do their work - but did attack many people including me - especially a small subset of people that includeded me