Whoosh! Wow! Cox Communications boosts local Internet speed

The Internet is one place where faster is indeed much better. The folks at Cox Communications get it, and said today that many of its high-speed Internet customers in Southern Nevada will be getting a free upgrade to their service starting Wednesday. The bandwidth delivered to residential customers in the preferred and premier service levels will increase by as much as 20 percent. The upgrade is free.

Preferred-level customers now get 10 megabits per second of bandwidth. The new level will be 12 Mbps, or 20 percent faster. Premier service customers will get boosted from 18 Mbps to 20 Mbps, an 11 percent increase.

"We are automatically increasing the speeds of two of our most popular tiers of broadband Internet service, to continue to deliver the best and most used Internet service in Las Vegas," Cox Las Vegas Senior Vice President and general manager Marilyn Burrows said in a statement. “This gives Cox customers faster file downloads and the ability to share pictures and video clips easily and seamlessly thereby maximizing their personal satisfaction while on the Web.”

This is the seventh straight year that the company has given free bandwidth upgrades to its Southern Nevada customers.

Cox High Speed Internet also was named the fastest cable Internet service provider in the country by PCMag.com in July and ranked highest in the West by J.D. Power and Associates' 2010 Internet service provider residential customer satisfaction survey in October.

See the J.D. Power and Associates survey results:
http://www.jdpower.com/telecom/ratings/high-speed-internet-service-provider-ratings/west/