What Is the Cox Panoramic Wifi Gateway?

The Panoramic Wifi Gateway is a paid service from Cox Internet in which you rent a Panoramic Wifi Gateway modem/router combo device from Cox for $13 per month. This device uses a technique called “Band Steering” to encourage high-use devices to use the Gateway’s higher-capacity GHz band of service instead of its slower 2.4 GHz band. The Gateway also automatically chooses the most appropriate Wifi frequencies for surfing, streaming, and sharing. The best part is that the Panoramic Wifi Gateway is compatible with any tier of Cox Internet service. So, whether you have Go Faster or Go Super Fast, you’re covered!

Panoramic Wifi Gateway includes an app that connects to your internet service so you can finally be the one to be the boss of your Wifi—instead of the other way around. It’s a service to help the many folks who feel like they’re at the mercy of technology because have no idea how to wrangle their very-important but ultimately-very-invisible Wifi.

This service also supports the establishment of a mesh network in your home internet. You can add Panoramic Wifi Pods in addition to your Panoramic Wifi Gateway to help create a “mesh Wifi network” in your home. Incorporating these Pods into your network can help prevent your home from having spots where the Wifi signal is weak. You can read our post about mesh Wifi to find out more about how adding devices like a Panoramic Wifi Pod can help enhance your internet experience.

Finally, one connection to Cox Elite Gamer is also included with your Panoramic Wifi Gateway subscription. Visit our related blog post about Cox Elite Gamer to learn more.

Create profiles
To help manage devices connected to your network, you can set up user profiles for your household members who frequently use the internet. You can identify devices and connect specific devices to any user profile. For example, Mom’s phone and tablet might be attached to her user profile, while Dad’s phone and laptop are associated with his profile and their child’s designated tablet is associated with her account. (NOTE: User profiles cannot be deleted and will only appear in the “People” section once a device is associated with it.)

Pause devices
You can select a profile or a group of devices to have their internet “paused” while they are connected to your home network. You can set up an end time for this intentional pause in service or you can leave it paused indefinitely until you elect to remove the pause again later.

Activate time alerts
Help promote healthy internet habits in your home! You can set limits on how much time a certain user on your network accesses the internet. Once you set a time limit on a profile, you will be alerted if that user meets their Active Time limit if you have Network Activity notifications enabled on your account. Although the system will not automatically pause that user’s account if they meet their limit, once you receive the notification you will have the option of pausing the account like you normally would.

Enable Bedtime Mode
You can schedule internet downtime across your network to automatically pause Wifi for all devices assigned to a profile. This might restrict access during mealtimes, for example, or encourage users to put internet-paused devices away when it’s time for bed.

Fine-tune parental controls
For specific users on your profile, you can enable Parental Controls to help limit your child’s exposure to potentially explicit content as long as that device stays connected to your home internet network.

Set up secure browsing
With Panoramic Wifi, you can opt into Protected Browsing for free! This service safeguards your home networks from accessing sites that are known sources for malware, spyware, and phishing based on updated lists by Zvelo.

Manage network devices
From your Cox Panoramic Wifi app, you can see which devices are connected and using the internet as well as which known devices are currently inactive. Not only can this be helpful for inspecting the security of your internet, it is also helpful for investigating the online/offline status of your Gateway and any Panoramic Wifi Pods you may have chosen to add to your network.

Access notification center
Gateway will notify you of security changes on your network as they happen. You’ll receive notifications about anything that impacts access to your home like Wifi name updates, password changes, IP address changes, network switching between broadcast and hidden or closed and open, and more. You can choose what type of notifications you get and when you get them as long as your personal information is updated in your Cox Panoramic Wifi Gateway account.

For more information about how Cox is committed to protecting its customers, visit our post about Cox Security Suite Plus.