Starting today, Qwest is offering their naked DSL service for $28 per
month + $7 for the basic qwest.net ISP service (no MSN). This is
available to ordinary customers, not just business customers. Their
bandwidth rate is about 1.5 Mb/s download, just under 1 Mb/s upload. The big deal here is that for people like me who have no land line, we
can now have a DSL alternative to Crapcast cable. I am thinking
seriously about ditching cable modem (even though it is 3 Mb/s download)
and switching to this new DSL service. Besides being cheaper and almost
as fast, the upload/download rates are much more symmetrial which makes
a lot of difference for things like ssh.
Are any of you thinking of ditching cable as well for this? I'm interested in hearing any comments the uugers and pluggers have on this.
Michael
Just FYI, unless they have changed (I haven't checking in about 9 months) Qwest's terms of service are carrier-type terms, which means basically, "we don't care what you do with it", which means servers, sharing w/ neighbors, etc are all acceptable.
Things may have changed though.
Adam Augustine
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