[lug] OT: Qwest, DSL and speeds.

[John Hernandez]

Yes, too sweet to last apparently.  My $9/mo minimalist Qwest ISP 
service (just a pipe w/o a b/w cap) just jumped up by $3 this month.  On 
the bright side, Qwest did reduce the price of their 1.5M DSL line 
recently to the same price as their previous 640K service.  Apparently, 
they have been automatically upgrading people with supported DSL modems.

Joey McDonald wrote:

>I called qwest to see what I could get as far as DSL goes and they
>installed a 1.5MB down 1024/up dsl line, with one static IP for about
>50$/mo. which I thought was great considering i had an MSN broadband
>account before with was 640 down/256 up for about 55/mo. Needless to
>say I've got a linux box serving webpages, e-mail and other stuff from
>my basement. It's a really sweet deal.
>
>    --joey
>
>On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 16:10:56 -0600, Nick Golder <purenrg at hiveportal.net> wrote:
>  
>
>>Just curious if anyone other DSL-through-Qwest customers have seen their
>>downstream bandwidth double in the past 36 hours?  Mine has definitely
>>doubled.  I first noticed it while downloading a Debain DI ISO and
>>confirmed with my WAN status.  Interesting.
>>    
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