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I suspect my connection simply bounced over to my next network and I moved on without paying much attention.  That does explain the messages from Zoom about my network being unstable&#8230;<\/li><li>The length of an outage is a random number.  The outage grew three hours in length while I was on the chat.  I doubt the resolution time is at all correlated to what they report.<\/li><li>The call center agent wanted to trouble-shoot my device even though I had told her there was a Cox-level outage and the web-site says NOT to trouble-shoot the device.  Left-hand, any clue what the right-hand is doing?<\/li><li>I got a $16.11 credit off a $99 &#8220;Gigablast&#8221; bill.  However, that only takes into account the outages up to that minute.  Tomorrow I can go through this again and they&#8217;ll calculate another credit.  I figure this is the only way to make them take any notice.  The good news is that &gt;I&lt; can multi-task and cost them money while I work.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>I bought the most expensive Cox connectivity so that it will work.  Cox.  Fix.  Your.  Service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;it sucks. I am in the midst of a Cox internet outage. While spending 49 minutes on &#8220;chat&#8221; to try to get a service credit, I learned a few things: Cox notification service does not notify of outages. 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