Is Cox's Gigabit Service Worth the Cost? Here's All You Need to Know

While looking for decent home internet, you'll find that most internet providers market their plans by speed alone, with little context as to what those speeds might actually mean for you. What separates, for instance, a 300Mbps plan from a 500Mbps plan, other than the price?

Cox tries to give some insight into what customers can expect from each speed tier by labeling its plans with varying degrees of "fast." What was previously known as the Go Fast plan is now ConnectAssist, a low-income plan with 100Mbps of speed. From there, Cox's speeds only get faster, literally.

Go Faster, the next tier up, features 250Mbps, followed by Go Even Faster, 500Mbps, and Go Super Fast, gig service with download speeds up to 1,000Mbps, or 1 gigabit per second. Finally, select locations may also have the multi-gigabyte option to Go Beyond Fast with speeds up to 2 ...