Re: Qwest Vs Beamsnail

["Bob La Londe" <nospam@xxxxxxxxx>]

"Mark Leuck" <m..leuck@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "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 :)

No. I'm bummed.  Went fishing yesterday, and only caught one fish.


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