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
>
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