[olug] new quest fiber signs?

[Rob Townley]

On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 9:47 PM, Rob Townley <rob.townley at gmail.com> wrote:

> i saw an ad on TV so i was searching.
> A year ago, a Qwest T1 installer was telling me that Qwest was starting to
> offer Ethernet to the premises.  He thought it would take 6 conductors, but
> he could not tell me any other details - how far away you can be, does it
> have POE for power outages...
>
> 20 Mbps download will not help unless the upload is increased to at least a
> couple of mega bits.  Online backups do not seem to be working for us
> because it takes more than 24 hours to do an upload.
>
> On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 4:07 PM, T. J. Brumfield <enderandrew at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> From what I read, Qwest isn't running fiber all the way to your house.
>>  They're just running fiber to each neighborhood.  Verizon is also
>> running new fiber internet, and I think both are claiming 20 megs a
>> second.
>>
>> -- T. J.
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 3:43 PM, 02fun-u2 <02fun-u2 at excite.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Is any one running quest fiber or know anything about this? I've seen
>> some new signs on the highway.
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i am chatting with a Qwest rep as i type this.  The fastest upload speed
Qwest offers is 896kpbs - same upload whether fiber or dsl.