 tubbynetreminds me of the danse russePremium,MVM
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Chandler, AZ | qwest... this forces qwest quite heavily. being that this is their hometown for management, etc. comcast is making quite a showing.
qwest has mentioned that they are in the process of deploying 40/20 vdsl2 in the dslams already served with fiber from the fttn/adsl2+ buildout.
will be interesting to see the churn rate of each company in this market.
q.
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iansltx
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Golden, CO
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| Surprisingly, there are a lot of folks around here (college students) sticking with the cheaper Qwest 3/5/7 Mbit ADSL service, even though it's quite crappy.
That said, all power users use Comcast, no questions.
OTOH is Qwest introduced 12/5 VDSL2 I'd be all over that. |
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tubbynetreminds me of the danse russePremium,MVM
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Chandler, AZ | said by iansltx:Surprisingly, there are a lot of folks around here (college students) sticking with the cheaper Qwest 3/5/7 Mbit ADSL service, even though it's quite crappy. which is interesting, because when i price qwest in phoenix, its always less of a value for me because i (a) don't want a landline - i have voip and (b) i don't want a contract to fulfill.
when you factor in non-contracted, dry-loop 1.5 meg service, i'm looking at a price of nearly $45/month, for 1.5meg dsl! thats the cost for the preferred tier from cox, provisioned at 10/768k. no comparison.
OTOH is Qwest introduced 12/5 VDSL2 I'd be all over that.
as long as it was priced right without a contract or phone line 
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iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
kudos:2 Reviews:
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| Here Qwest is quite competitive price-wise. $40 dry-line for 1.5, $46 for 3/5/7.
Okay, that isn't terribly competitive, but it's cheaper than $55 for Comcast.
Qwest also has a $30 for 1.5M and a $35 for 3/5/7 promo going on right now, no phone line needed. Comcast would be $35 for 1M, though they also have a promotion where 12M is $20 with TV, not sure how much without. |
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Dude, you have to be .5 mile from the RADSL device for 40Mbs and 1 mile for 20Mbs (as VDSL attenuates to ADSL2). With that kind of coverage the value of Qwest is moot. |
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tubbynetreminds me of the danse russePremium,MVM
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Chandler, AZ | said by Meow :
Dude, you have to be .5 mile from the RADSL device for 40Mbs and 1 mile for 20Mbs (as VDSL attenuates to ADSL2). With that kind of coverage the value of Qwest is moot.
you realize that .5 miles is ~2600 feet and 1 mile is 5280 feet. even if you are looking at standard adsl, synch rates for 1.5meg service are roughly 6k feet. anything more than that, and you're getting spotty coverage.
its *not* a moot point because of the synch rates at the distance. it *is* a moot point because of the limited deployment of the adsl2+/vdsl line cards into the dslams that are fiber fed.
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