[Tfug] Qwest Fiber?

[Jon]

Matt Jacob wrote:
> What's your general area? I'm not eligible for it yet near
> Sunrise/Swan, though I did enter my contact info into their
> "we'll-call-you-when-it's-ready" widget.
>
> Also, what's the rated upstream bandwidth of your new link? I'm fine
> with 4200 Mbps down, but I really wish I could get something faster
> than 700 Kbps up. It seems like my only other option would be a
> Comcast business account, but I would hardly call that an improvement.
>
> Matt
>
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 7:02 PM, Jon <bigj at voipmogul.com> wrote:
>   
>> Anyone on the list tried out Qwest's new "fiber" <cough> service? No it's
>> only fiber to the node but I'm getting 12 Mpbs tomorrow and wondering if
>> anyone has had any issues?
>>
>> If you haven't checked out if you can get new speeds I would hit up their
>> page. Mine was upgraded a month ago. Only reason I know is they broke my
>> phone service then in an attempt fix that they broke my DSL. When I asked
>> the tech WTF they were doing to break both services he said "fiber to the
>> node" and 3 weeks later their site said I qualified for it. W00t.
>>
>> --
>> Jon
>> www.VoIPmogul.com
>>
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I'm near Ina/Thornydale. The upstream will stay 896Kbps unfortunately. I 
would *love* to see them double that but I'm suspecting that will never 
happen. I'll post speed tests if they install it tomorrow without 
breaking something. I'm not holding my breath.

-- 
Jon
www.VoIPmogul.com