Re: Qwest Vs Beamsnail

["Mark Leuck" <m..leuck@xxxxxxxxx>]

"Bob La Londe" <nospam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> As some of you know I've got a new place out of the city (for a couple
years
> now).  With that comes some interesting ways to do things.  We can't get
> cable for broadband.  In this areas that is consistantly the fastest
service
> with each headend capable of providing 5+ mps shared.  There is cable
across
> the street, but all utilities here are underground (I like that).  With
that
> being the case they aren't willing to bring out a construction crew to add
> one new service.  For the last almost 2 years we have been using a
wireless
> "broadband" provider.  (Note the quotes)
>
> Well, Qwest finally improved their hardware to allow us to connect to
their
> broadband speed dsl. We ordered it and I finally got around to hooking it
up
> this morning. I have not yet checked the upload speed, but it averaged
> 1.4mps after half a dozen download tests. Cool stuff.
>
> We did several dowload tests. Browsing, large files, FTP multi files, etc.
> No long ping times. No timeouts. Consistant downloads from 1.3-1.6mps.

You okay Bob? You've said something positive about another company :)