[1st-mile-nm] Qwest slashes "Connect Quantum" Internet price

[peter]

Then again Qwest seems quite capable of screwing this up anyway 
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Qwest-Denies-Using-FTTN-Glitch-To-Kill-CLECs-99752

Note how they are using this to cut out the independent ISPs as per 
Johns statement, yes it sucks, but whats new about that with Qwest

Thanks John ADSL2 upstream is 112 Kbytes WOW

What other industry in the world would get away with charging full price 
for there BEST ( Ho Ho )  effort and doubling the cost to another group 
of customers for partial service

Then again if you want to trust all your money and information to an 
adsl router and you remember that crap that went on with Alcatel and 
Cisco several years back watch this video 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKv7YfB9Hvs

( : ( : pete

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John Osmon wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 05:58:45PM -0700, peter wrote:
>   
>> First 20 mps is really 2.5 megabyte and typically upstream is about 10 - 
>> 15% of the downstream speed
>>     
>
> Huh?  It's ADSL2+.  Upstream will be maxed out at 896kbps, and
> downstream will be of several speeds, up to 20 Mbps.
>  
>   
>> From my sources in Denver the service is a joke and rarely gets the 
>> 10mps or 1.25 megabyte range and service swings are huge ( they are 
>> using Bandwidth monitor pro )
>>     
>
> I'm not seeing that with the folks in ABQ that have the service.  They
> get advertised speeds to downtown -- the only drawback is the 20 - 30 ms
> of latency inherent in ADSL using DMT signaling.
>
> >From servers in downtown ABQ, I've seen folks streaming 3 or 4
> simultaneous media streams, while using SSH and VOIP.  Not too shabby.
>
>
>   
>> As Qwest no longer will agree to SLA agreement or data on its broadband 
>> connection service the difference in business and residential rates is 
>> criminal
>>     
>
> I don't recall any SLAs on DSL at any time.  It's always been a "best
> effort" type of system.  (Like packet delivery on the Inernet.  :-)
>
> The only drawback I see with the new Qwest offerings is that they
> are using this time to block out their ISP partners.  You get to
> use Qwest as the ISP, or forego the faster speeds.
>
> See my previous posts for my thoughts on having your layer 3 provider
> locked in because of your layer 1/2 choice.  (Hint - I think it
> sucks...)
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