The Newbie Again

22 Sep 2001 13:33:22 -0700

well,
considering the problems I have had (and many of them matched yours)
I have moved everything, (video, phone and data) over to cox. so far,
its been 3 days and no packet losses, only minor video dropouts (cabled
replaced and all cured).

you might want to try them.

Technomage Hawke

On Fri, 21 September 2001, George Toft wrote:

> 
> My house is 4 months old, and the QOS sucks (3-6% packet loss
> to the first router).  In my case, it is not my house - it's
> qwest.  Matter of fact, they're making their biweekly stop over
> again tonight - intermittent dial tone and no sound on incoming
> calls.
> 
> George
> 
> 
> Gary Nichols wrote:
> > 
> > This really depends on what condition your copper is going into your
> > house.  My house is 4 years old, and my VDSL has been out only twice due
> > to power failure (thanks APS!).
> > 
> > In contrast, my friend's house is 15 years old and he has several weird
> > problems with his.  His neighbor next door had all his copper replaced and
> > has had only 1 outage (lasted 10 mins if I remember right).
> > 
> > Not saying qwest is the best, but it DOES work.  :-)
> > 
> > As for speed, it's comparable to a T1 going down (102-150 KB/S) and better
> > going up (I've hit 200 KB/S).  The Qwest installer told me that there
> > really isn't a cap on upload speed right now, so you're at the mercy of
> > your connection quality.
> > 
> > My negative opinion of Qwest stems from poor customer service and the fact
> > that they insist on blocking incoming sevice ports (80,53,25).
> > 
> > Just my 2 cents.
> > 
> > On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, robert jorgenson wrote:
> > 
> > > I dont know about you but mine goes down ALL the
> > > time...like once a week, it gets really frustrating.
> > > plus the highes DL i ever got for my 1MB service was
> > > like 4-500kpbs. Although the upload speed has been up
> > > in the 800kpbs range. Not sayin its horrible...but i
> > > am sure there are better services besides qwest's
> > > vdsl. if it was up to me i would get something else,
> > > maybee @home i hear that is very good when it works :)
> > >
> > > --- George Toft <george@georgetoft.com> wrote:
> > 
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