travelguy
join:1999-09-03
Santa Fe, NM | Meanwhile in the real world....
Qwest customers outside of their 4 or 5 major metro areas are limited to a max of 1.5mbps, if they can even get that. |
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jinjimbob
Troy Mcclure
join:2001-11-13 | Exactly, what speeds are they testing 1.51 Mbps or 1.6 MBps?
Maybe they are testing the DSL working for 8 hours in a row. |
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partysource
join:2000-11-25
Phoenix, AZ | They are testing bonded 56k modems LOL |
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Araiden
join:2008-04-12 | reply to travelguy
I had qwest for a while. I didn't ever really have any issues with them but the speeds were so slow. Living right in the middle of town and couldn't get better than 1.5 meg service. |
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DarkLogix
join:2008-10-23
Baytown, TX | reply to partysource
ya with just a mere 640 56K modems you can get 35Mbit
so you need to start buying many landlines
lol |
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iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
 ·Comcast
 ·Qwest.net
 ·magicjack.com
 ·BeeCreek Communica..
·Sprint Mobile Broa..
| reply to Araiden
IT's not as bad here but many places around here (Golden, CO) top out at 3 Mbps, while some can't break 1.32...er...1.5 Mbps. I know friends who can get 7, at which point Qwest is cheaper (albeit a bit lower-speed) than Comcast. I can only get 5, and it seems as though Qwest has more problems with evening capacity than Comcast does. What's funny is that Comcast is using DOCSIS 1.1! |
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jesseb_66
join:2002-12-06
Tucson, AZ
1 edit | reply to travelguy
Yep middle of Tucson, AZ here, max is 1.5 mbps! wtf is with that.
Before this I lived in the middle of no where Vermont and Verizon offered 3mbps years ago and now 7 is available... |
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JohnDrenZ
Premium
join:2000-04-03
Phoenix, AZ | line bonding technology, what a joke
Qwest is lucky to get one cable pair to a subscriber's home. Qwest just die already and be sold off in pieces! |
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NameAnon
@co.us
| 1.5 Limit
They can add me to the "unwilling" broadband customer additions. I had to drop Comcast for Qwest when I moved, so back down to 1.5. I remember when 1.5 first came where I live...3 years ago! We're just not important enough for either Qwest or Comcast to up the speeds. I guess little broadband is better than no broadband...sigh...  |
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chronoss2009
join:2008-09-23 | see go faster and they shall bite
YET BCE ( BEll canada ) wants to give you less and charge you more and thinks this is great .... HAHA watch the turds fly after when they realize this is the wrong way to go. |
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chronoss2009
join:2008-09-23 | interesting
also where did the logout button go i dont want to login here no more? |
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chronoss2009
join:2008-09-23
·TekSavvy Solutions..
| put in latest teksavvy post as you have me seemingly banned
as the movie serenity states,
"MEDDLING, we meddle and thats why the war began.
We get in there heads, there homes ...we meddle" - River tamm
Has nothing to do with what your up to , its about meddling with your life and if i constantly was to step in fornt of you all day saying "but think of the children" you'd do two things.
Find a place to sit down, or punch me in da nose and say ENOUGH about kids your meddling with people that aren't doing nothing wrong. Those that are they are being watched and after all ya think those govt hacking teams listen to what laws you think of?
HAHA...ignorance is bliss |
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WiseOldNerd
De gustibus non est disputandum
Premium
join:2001-11-25
Phoenix, AZ
·Cox HSI
·Qwest.net
·Charter Pipeline
| Altitude Sickness?
Apparently at the Qwest headquarters in Denver the majority of senior executives suffer from altitude sickness which has dumbed them down to subnormal levels. They are unable to think clearly, probably need help spelling out the big words and are too busy reading comic books to pay attention to the world around them.
I had Qwest for years in the middle of Phoenix and was limited to 3mb down. That was livable when I was running servers and needed freedom and static IPs. When I simlified life and no longer needed the perks of DSL, I made the move to Cox and for the same monthly amount I get 10+mb down and 1+mb up. The service has been totally good and no ouages (wished Cox video was as good). When I queried Qwest execs I found there were no plans to upgrade the central Phoenix area, but rather they would put all their dollars in the new developments on the outskirts-where foreclosures are daily events and I doubt they are getting many new customers. Stupidity, arrogance and badly thoughtout greed seem to be the corporate norm for Qwest now. And if I can ever pry it from my spouse's hand the land line will go too.
I don't want them to die as some would suggest, but they really should fire the top level of management and then limit executive salaries to $1/year with stock options. That would cause them to really learn the market and not just continue to ride the same blind mule they have been on for years.
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My perception is REALITY |
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gworkman7
join:2005-10-18
Vail, AZ
·PHONE POWER
·magicjack.com
·Qwest.net
·Broadvox Direct
| Stuck with Qwest
At least I get 7/768 with results of 6/700. I went to Cox for a month, but got quickly tired of the blocked ports. Yes, there are workarounds, but trying to explain to novice folks how to type in a web address with a :8080 was sometimes too much to bear. The straw that broke the camel's back was not being able to remotely access Windows Home Server. |
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disapointed
@qwest.net
| slow speeds and clueless execs
I live in a 1st tier suburb of Minneapolis and can't even get 1.5 meg from them. They have such bad cable here that 256k is all they offer. This is an older area that is getting re-vitalized by young families who all grew up with Internet access so it is a necessity. I am sure they are losing customers like me to Comcast every day. They have the new 20 meg service just a few blocks from me but my neighborhood is served from a different C.O. so I can't get it...go figure. When will they learn to spot the trends and keep up with them. |
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dynodb
Premium,VIP
join:2004-04-21
Minneapolis, MN
| reply to travelguy
Re: Meanwhile in the real world....
said by travelguy  :Qwest customers outside of their 4 or 5 major metro areas are limited to a max of 1.5mbps, if they can even get that. That is completely untrue. |
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Laggin
@co.us
| Unnnnn.......
1.5Mbps after how many years of this???????? I think if they'd focus on FTTN that would help tremendously. Milking copper only goes so far, and what's bonding going to do anyway? Isn't it worth more to invest in something like fiber that would blow any bonding type setups out of the water? |
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MSauk
MSauk
Premium
join:2002-01-17
Sandy, UT | reply to travelguy
Re: Meanwhile in the real world....
lol very true. Pay 35 bucks for 1.5 service! Yeah I would have done that 6 years ago...this company is so far behind the times it is not even funny anymore. |
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travelguy
join:1999-09-03
Santa Fe, NM
| reply to dynodb
I have no axe to grind with Qwest and recognize that of all the Baby Bells, Qwest has the worst economics in terms of population density to deal with. That statement might have been a slight exaggeration for effect.
That said, after the metro areas of Denver, Phoenix, Seattle, Salt Lake City, Portland, and a small part of Albuquerque, where can you get speeds above 1.5Mbps?
It's a tough economic environment and when you have Wall Street weenies like Craig Moffet insisting on harvesting revenue, it's hard to offer services that don't have an immediate payback. |
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GT42
@bridgeband.net
| Added Cusomers Ya - Right
"carrier added 42,000 new broadband customers on the quarter"
This is a joke. They did not add that many new customers half of those were taken from there existing "Partners"... They cold call there own customers with local ISP's and get them to switch to MSN ISP(Them) and call it a new customer.
They use the local "Partners" ISP's to get the customers and then undercut the cost from the ISP's to get customers to cut over and lock them into 2-3yr contracts.
Qwest is just joke of a company |
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