Re: Qwest Vs Beamsnail

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

"Bob La Londe" <nospam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "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.

I didn't think it mattered how many you caught as long as you had a cooler
of beer around?