Re: [uug] Qwest Naked DSL

[Richard Miller]

I saw this announcement, too, from Qwest and I am also considering 
switching from Comcast.  I have heard that good DSL ISPs are Xmission 
and Speakeasy.  I would like an ISP that allows me to share the 
connection (legally) with other people.  It might be worth upgrading 
the speed if I shared the connection with other people in the apartment 
complex.  I've also heard that those two ISPs don't block any ports and 
offer static IPs and other hosting-friendly options.  There actually 
seems to be so many options that I'm not sure what I want.  I'm curious 
to hear other opinions about Xmission and Speakeasy and issues like web 
hosting, connection sharing etc., over DSL.

Richard Miller

On Mar 1, 2004, at 12:58 PM, Michael L Torrie wrote:

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
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