I'm in Kansas. I've had this gateway for maybe a month issued to me brand new. I rent it after trying numerous modems with numerous different routers and experienced some kind of issue with all of them so this was the next thing I could try without actually buying more equipment that ends up laying around.
Tracert www.cox.net
Tracing route to www.cox.net [68.99.123.161]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.0.1
2 6 ms 7 ms 7 ms 10.32.128.1
3 8 ms 8 ms 6 ms 70.183.70.193
4 15 ms 15 ms 16 ms 70.183.69.6
5 15 ms 15 ms 15 ms 70.183.71.16
6 88 ms 47 ms 47 ms dukedsrj01-ge-210.0.rd.at.cox.net [68.1.1.121]
7 48 ms 47 ms 47 ms 68.1.15.234
8 48 ms 47 ms 49 ms 68.99.123.4
9 48 ms 48 ms 46 ms ww2.cox.com [68.99.123.161]
Trace complete.