I'm kinda confused about this "all new Qwest Naked DSL!" since I ordered Broadband Basic a week or two ago--it wasn't publicized, I had to specifically question them about it, but they certainly had it. Perhaps they're only publicizing it now? Or maybe I just barely "got in" ...
At any rate, those worried about "in total" costs, here's what I'm paying: $12/m basic phone service $15/m 256Kbps/256Kbps DSL $ 7/m qwest.net ISP $ 3/m dsl modem rent (you can buy it outright for $100 if you want) Total: $25/month for DSL, $12/month for a phone line == $37/month total. Apparently you can knock a few bucks off that price if you don't want a land line (you have to pay them something, though, can't remember the exact price). ALSO PLEASE NOTE: this price is for the 256Kbps/256Kbps DSL. My little gkrellm monitor maxes out at 30-32K down, if that gives you a better understanding of the speed. The 1.5Mbps/896Kbps line is $28/m rather than $15/m, so add an extra $13 to that total price ... (I'm upgrading as soon as I can ...) Another note: you do get a dynamic, world-visible IP address from this. (Actually, your router gets a world-visible IP address, but it has DMZ capability so you can make your box world visible, or use port forwarding, or however you like to do it.) Mine hasn't changed since I got it about it a week ago, but I use dyndns.org anyway. Summary: If you already have a phone line you're paying for, you can get 1.5Mbps/896Kbps, unlimited bandwidth, for $38 a month. I couldn't find anything rivalling that from any of the other ISPs I checked out. If you don't have a phone line and are considering switching from cable, it'll be $50 a month all expenses total. Is it worth it to switch? You make the call ;-) But if anybody can find a broadband solution for less than $37 a month, I'd be very interested to hear about it! ~ ross On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Brent Thomson wrote: > I'm interested in hearing what the total cost per month has been for > those of you using Qwest's new service with the various ISPs. > > Glen Wagley wrote: > > > I just switched to this when I moved back to Utah. (woo-hoo! No more > > Texas! That's another thread/story/etc.) I used a cable modem when I > > lived in Provo before. I hated it because cable is shared. I had to stay > > up until midnight or later to get some decent bandwidth. I haven't had > > any complaints with this new Qwest DSL line so far. I'm using CSolutions > > as my ISP and they are awesome. > > > > Michael L Torrie scribbled furiously on 3/1/2004 12:58 PM: > > > >> 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 > > > > > > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > -- This sentence would be seven words long if it were six words shorter. ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
