On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 13:22, Michael L Torrie wrote: > The best bet for naked DSL is their Qwest.net ISP package which isn't > MSN and it isn't speakeasy. It's some internal Qwest DSL that's bare > minimal connection (all we really want anyway). No Email server or > anything. Just an IP address and gateway. Given this choice I will go > with neither Xmission nor Speakeasy.
I meant to say it's an internal Qwest ISP. > > Michael > > > > > > 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 > > > -- > > > Michael L Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > ____________________ > > > BYU Unix Users Group > > > http://uug.byu.edu/ > > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > > > > > > > > > > > > ____________________ > > BYU Unix Users Group > > http://uug.byu.edu/ > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list -- Michael L Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
