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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 | Re: Meanwhile in the real world.... 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 | Re: Meanwhile in the real world.... They are testing bonded 56k modems LOL | |
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join:2008-10-23
Baytown, TX | Re: Meanwhile in the real world.... ya with just a mere 640 56K modems you can get 35Mbit
so you need to start buying many landlines
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| Araiden
join:2008-04-12 | 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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| jesseb_66
join:2002-12-06
Tucson, AZ
1 edit | 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
| 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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| | travelguy
join:1999-09-03
Santa Fe, NM
| Re: Meanwhile in the real world.... 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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join:2004-05-29
Ellensburg, WA | Re: Meanwhile in the real world.... I have friends in Union Gap, WA which is a smallish town that have 7Mb/s service. | |
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Premium,VIP
join:2004-04-21
Minneapolis, MN
| 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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join:1999-09-03
Santa Fe, NM
1 edit | Re: Meanwhile in the real world.... 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
| 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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MSauk
MSauk
Premium
join:2002-01-17
Sandy, UT | 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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aguyinaroom
@iauq.com
| 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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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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| Corydon
Cultivant son jardin
Premium
join:2008-02-18
Denver, CO
clubs:
 ·Comcast
| Re: Altitude Sickness? said by WiseOldNerd :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. Hey...I resemble that remark! Still better than getting my brains baked out of my skull every summer like I did back when I lived in Phoenix.... 
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"Religion allows people who would otherwise be arguing about whether the Death Star could beat a Borg Cube to have a place of respect within society." | |
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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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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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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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caffeinator
Coming soon to a cup near you..
Premium
join:2005-01-16
Spokane, WA
·WebBand
| Re: Added Cusomers Ya - Right Hmm, I have the 7M service here in Spokane..only about 250k ppl..and it's with a local ISP. And, I have the "price for life" pricing. Including the ISP and Qwest, I pay $45-50/mo. for reliable 7/896 service. Comcast can't do that.
Cable Internet is waaay expensive unless you have the TV service as well. With 14 OTA DT channels..why would I? | |
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caffeinator
Coming soon to a cup near you..
Premium
join:2005-01-16
Spokane, WA | Re: Added Cusomers Ya - Right That price includes my landline too. | |
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Bronnster
join:2007-12-05
Hazelton, ID
·Qwest.net
| Not a member of the 'Bash Qwest Party' I am very satisfied with Qwest all around. I have never dealt with bad service that wasn't easily fixed over the phone. I'm in a small rural city here in Idaho and have had Qwest dsl for a few years now. I'm on 7m/798k plan and am getting very close to those numbers always.
Qwest service has been so good, I have abandoned digital Television. I now enjoy everything TV has to offer over the net. With Qwest service behind it, it's been great.
So, hate on folks. I for one, will not. When they invaded our privacy over the phone and networks, Qwest refused to do it. They knew it was wrong to spy on me or you. As far as I'm concerned, they will have, and deserve my patriotism in return. Maybe because they chose to do right by me, it cost them the funds to expand and upgrade, so I'm gonna recognize that sacrifice too. I'm glad things are getting better for Qwest! | |
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| travelguy
join:1999-09-03
Santa Fe, NM
1 edit | Re: Not a member of the 'Bash Qwest Party' As I've posted previously, I have no desire to bash Qwest either. I know something of the economics that Qwest is dealing with, what capital costs and how hard it is these days to get capital at any price.
That said, rightly or wrongly Qwest management made some broadband deployment decisions a few years ago that are coming home to roost. I don't know how quickly those can be altered at this point.
And by the way, I'm 99% happy with my dry 1.5MBps service. With the exception of a few service outages, it's been rock solid. | |
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Zubenelgenubi
@qwest.net
| Qwest How are they counting the losses? We kept Qwest for broadband, but used the landline connection in effect dropping the landline. I've got the family cell phones.
Qwest itself bundles with Verizon - So if you get a customer opting to change the landline to broadband and they add Verizon wireless - you haven't really lost a customer, you've shifted revenue. So when Qwest says it lost so many landlines - how many were just shifted?
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| travelguy
join:1999-09-03
Santa Fe, NM
1 edit | Re: Qwest said by Zubenelgenubi :
So when Qwest says it lost so many landlines - how many were just shifted? Access line is a well defined term, as is customer, but you can't compare them directly. After all, any given customer could have multiple access lines. Specific numbers of access lines, broadband subscribers, video subscribers and wireless subscribers are all in the 10Q Karl linked to.
Ultimately it's immaterial how many switch vs how many are new. In the end it's how much revenue each subscriber type generates. If broadband is generating more revenue than access is losing, life is good. | |
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