[clue-tech] Qwest DSL

[David Maddox]

Hi, long time listener, first time caller. :-)

Actiontec went boing boing on the wifi for me and someone else I know,
frequent disconnects on several computers we used. 2wire modem is
solid so far. I'm pretty happy with Qwest, then. And yes, it's easy to
configure and use, I don't know how it goes with any Linux support for
uPNP or whatever that is.

Comcast - looks like hell is freezing over twice! I got a bulletin
recently that congress or FCC is looking into opening up cable
finally. Doesn't guarantee it's going to happen, but that and the
existence of a website created by a journalist for some major magazine
called comcastmustdie.com suggests that lots of cash doesn't trump a
gazillion disgruntled customers. We'll see. Have you heard about their
p2p spoofing games?

Dave


On Nov 19, 2007 10:16 PM, Nate Duehr <nate at natetech.com> wrote:
>
> On Nov 19, 2007, at 8:15 PM, Keith Hellman wrote:
>
> > 3. How is the performance?  I have Comcast (cable) broadband and am
> > generally pleased. Qwest "silver" service (what I'm considering) is
> > supposed to be about 5x the speed (1.5Mb/s).  Do others using their
> > silver service see this type of bandwidth?
>
>
> You sure you're not mixing up "b" and "B" in the advertising/speeds?
>
> 1.5 Mb/s (bits) is typically quite a bit slower than Comcast's
> offerings around here, but I don't know where you live.   Maybe
> Comcast has a lower speed thing somewhere around here.
>
> What is your Comcast speed, and is it listed as big-"B" or little-"b"?
>
> In the past I have used Qwest DSL for connectivity to a higher-priced,
> but local, DSL provider (Front Range Internet) and it was rock-solid,
> stable, I had static IP's, etc... worked great, but I wanted faster
> and a deal came up here on one of the lists that Comcast had a sale on
> their commercial-grade service (where you can get static IP's for
> things).
>
> I switched over, and yes -- it's screaming fast.  I regularly see 12
> mb/s download speeds on a line only guaranteed to have 6 mb/s speeds
> (this is their "speedbooster" feature -- if they have the b/w
> available they'll double your guaranteed rate for short bursts... long-
> term downloads and traffic will slow over time back to your guaranteed
> speed.  cool feature).  I also have no problems with getting the
> guaranteed or faster upload speeds.
>
> What I do have now is instability -- they've been doing some network
> work in my area the last month or so, and I have had a number of small
> outages.  They're usually short, but there was a longish-one the other
> night.  When I called the 800 number and went to commercial/business
> class customer support to report it, they just said, "It's a known
> outage."  They wouldn't even guess or try to find an ETR (estimated
> time of repair), but offered up the ticket number (as if that helps),
> and then said, "thank you - good bye".
>
> Not super-impressed with that.  Typical huge corporate tech service...
> "We know nothing, but since you paid for business service, at least
> we'll answer the phone and tell you that.  If you were a residential
> customer, we wouldn't even do that -- but your end-result would still
> be the same... and outage of unknown duration.  Have a nice day, and
> thank you for punching twenty buttons on your phone to get to us!  See
> ya!"
>
> Oh well, it's relatively cheap.  Ya get what you pay for.  I'd happily
> pay more for an alternative ISP on Comcast's network -- time for the
> opening of the cable networks... common carrier rules look great, but
> they'll never happen.  The cable folks pay their Congressional bribes
> promptly every year.  LOL!
>
> --
> Nate Duehr
> nate at natetech.com
>
>
>
>
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