Qwest Wants To Avoid 'Speed Game' > Fail

Fail

When I first moved to Cheyenne, which is serviced by Quester, I went to one of their Kiosks at the mall. I asked how fast of speed I could get with them. They replied with 1.5mbps. I literally laughed at them and said "that's it?"

Meanwhile the cable provider here offers 8mbit and 16mbit packages.

reply to Hpower
^^^^^ You sound like you know something that I do not, but I really want to know too!. The internet is going downnnn. Please share with us what you see in the crystal ball. Thanks.



HI everyone. Please understand I am really quite ignorant when it comes to knowing even what it means to have a DSL, ASDL or fiber optics for choices. Many people just have other things to do and are less interested I guess. I have learned quite a lot reading your educated opinions and as you can see from the above test results, compared to most of you I have a seriously limited up speed and in fact is what brought here to the forum.

I will add some news on the Qwest issue however. Recently, in the last 2 weeks, I needed a line in Mesa , a dsl line to connect to someones server. I am in Phoenix. I personally had before that call been only getting speeds up to 1.5 mps and a slightly higher upload rate of 786 roughly. While ordering this new dsl line at the house in Mesa, I was told that for $5 more a month I could have new speeds of 3000kpbs and the addition of linebacker (inside the home line repairs free) and still have the other normal bells and whistles I have now. So woohoo was I excited!

I have never experienced a line using Qwest in the 15 years I have lived in Phoenix that has not a lot of static interference, and still we have no clear line ever. I have lived in at least 2 different locations for this and it just quite frankly indicates poor service ethic. They are a company that provides the min and drags its feet to update or keep up with technology. The new speed is still not working consistently and although very noticeable to me , the upload is where I have a serious issue. Moving along

The dsl line to mesa home was a nightmare and by the way, the speeds to that address was only available in the 1.5 mp area . So they are making some new change on the line itself, but not to every area in the Valley. Anyway, they charged me $120 to run that line to get this poor rate of speed. And it is going to cost $40 a month. Yes I will be canceling this today! hehe

Finally, when I got so fed up with Qwest some years ago and went with AT&T, I learned then the fact is that Qwest owns the lines. AT&T will simply pay them some reduced rate . We actually had a Qwest guy come out to install the AT&T line. If you live in Phoenix, there simply is no escape from the condition and greed of Qwest,... unless you choose cable. Choosing cable is not always an option because it is so much more expensive and most people that may consider the change cannot afford to pay the high deposit prices Cox insists people pay if they have credit that has went through say the hard times of the current rape and burglary of resources and livelyhood going on today. Perhaps they have changed their policy in this regard?

In a place like Phoenix Arizona... a major metropolitan city, there is no excuse other than poor business and moral ethic, greed and monetizing a monopoly for the condition of the situation. This simply does not happen in a corporation without a willful choice made on their part to schmooze and pillage as long as they can. Trust me I know that world, the numbers in each area are crunched, analyzed, spewed and redrawn each and every week. They knew what they were doing and it is now going to be time to pay the cost of greed. Men reaped the success of the company instead of putting some of it back into the company for expansion and upgraded technology.

They had people in it for themselves and not for the well being of the company at the helm. It is sad really, but you can't really blame a person for looking out for his own best interests, when he can see quite clearly from other corporate arenas that being a "company man" gets you screwed big time and one week before that retirement kicks in too!!