Broadband in Scottsdale?

Tom Emerson plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Sun, 13 Oct 2002 10:42:14 -0700 (MST)


I've been a QWest VDSL/Choice subscriber for a couple of years now.  I see 
occasional very brief outages, nothing really to complain about.  Overall 
the service has been excellent.

 - t

On 11 Oct 2002, Ted Gould wrote:

> 
> > ADSL is in limited areas and you can get a block of static IPs (my old
> > apartment), however there has been a push by the telco to offer VDSL, which
> > they do not give out static IPs (my new house in Scottsdale).
> 
> The cool part about VDSL is that you don't have the 'A' in the front, so
> you get synchronous bandwidth.  This makes uploading go _alot_ faster.
> 
> Does anyone else have VDSL?  Does your modem seem to crash every four
> weeks or so?  All it requires is a unplug/plug back in, but it sure is
> annoying.  I no one else is having that issue, I'll have to call Qwest
> and ask for a new one.
> 
> BTW - For those who are interested in things being open, VDSL is a
> proprietary protocol developed by basically one vendor.  They are
> thinking about getting it standardized, but we'll see.
> 
> 		Have fun,
> 			Ted
>