On 2/6/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Eric Peterson</b> <<a href="mailto:srcfoo@gmail.com">srcfoo@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Shawn,<br>
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How would you rate the quality of the line? Is the down/up speed good?
How would you compare it to cable (assuming you've had cable internet)?<br>
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I had Qwest and found the latency of the line to be terrible back in
2000. Sometimes a key stroke would take a second or two to echo back to
the screen in an SSH session.<br>
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I would love to have 8 static addresses for that price, but only if the speed and reliability are there.</div></div></blockquote><div><br>
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I wouldn't recommend it if there were major problems with it. Up
front, I will say that I've had two problems with Qwest and my DSL line:<br>
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1) My underground phone line got saturated a few years ago during
a heavy rain season and I would lose connection intermittently.
Had Qwest come out and I literally made them replace the buried line
and have had no issues with the line since then. <br>
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2) When I dropped my second line, I had to fight with them to
allow me to keep my current block of IP's and account. I put DSL
on my second line (stupid me!) not realizing the headache I'd have in
getting it switched over.<br>
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Other than that, no real problems. My download speeds are about
4,700 to 4,800M and upload is about 786K according to Speakeasy tests.<br>
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I've been SSH'ing into my domain on DSL since I've had DSL and over the
years it's improved. Sometimes it's a bit slow, but nothing bad
enough to warrent my considering dropping it in favor of Cable.<br>
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BTW, I've never had cable.<br>
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Oh, and you may want to look into the DSL subscriber stuff from
Qwest. They recently changed their policies.
<a href="http://www.qwest.com/legal">http://www.qwest.com/legal</a><br></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>-Shawn<br><br>-Nemo me impune lacessit. Ne Obliviscaris.. <br>