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
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| 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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dynodb
Premium,VIP
join:2004-04-21
Minneapolis, MN
| reply to travelguy
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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MSauk
MSauk
Premium
join:2002-01-17
Sandy, UT | reply to travelguy
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
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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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JTY
join:2004-05-29
Ellensburg, WA | I have friends in Union Gap, WA which is a smallish town that have 7Mb/s service. |
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dynodb
Premium,VIP
join:2004-04-21
Minneapolis, MN
| reply to travelguy
said by travelguy :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? About every CO-based DSLAM offers the 7M speeds, as do the FTTN boxes which also offer the 12M/20M speeds.
There are multiple CO's with DSLAMs offering greater than 1.5M in Albuquerque alone, plus such MAJOR metropolitan areas such as Bayard, Taos, Clovis, etc, etc, etc.
Yeah, it sucks that you happen to be too far from the CO and can only get 1.5M. Now that Spring is here, I'd expect that FTTN installations will start ramping up again. |
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aguyinaroom
@iauq.com
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Albuquerque is not one of the 4 or 5 major markets in the Qwest territory, but there are over 100,000 homes that have access to fiber optic internet in the Albuquerque metro area.
The first deployments in Santa Fe and Las Cruces are being deployed this summer.
Sorry you don't have access to fiber at your home yet, but it is being deployed pretty quickly considering the first deployments in Albuquerque were in Feb 2008. |
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travelguy
join:1999-09-03
Santa Fe, NM
1 edit | reply to dynodb
said by dynodb :Yeah, it sucks that you happen to be too far from the CO and can only get 1.5M. Now that Spring is here, I'd expect that FTTN installations will start ramping up again. I can see the lights of Albuquerque (to quote a famous song) from my place and would buy you serious amounts of your favorite adult beverage in celebration if that were to happen any time soon.
Given the number of Phds working at various government facilities who live in the neighborhood, I can't believe the takeup wouldn't more than meet the financial hurdles for such an investment. |
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dmwagner
Qwest DSL -alltel
join:2002-04-29
Canton, SD
·Qwest.net
| reply to travelguy
said by travelguy :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? Like everywhere almost. I am from South Dakota, tiny town... 8Mbps here and Qwest is one of 3 providers here, all with speeds from 8 to 10Mbps. |
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