[Tfug] Qwest Fiber?

[Jon]

Jon wrote:
> 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.
>
The results so far are good. The max I've been able to pull down is 9.2 
Mbps. I suspect this is just a limit of the server(s) I'm pulling from 
and the links in between. I also did some latency tests the night before 
to compare with the new connection. They all dropped by nearly 1/2. This 
is good news for gamers.

One thing I didn't like about this whole process was Qwest told me I 
needed to be home as a Qwest tech would be showing up. I woke up in the 
morning and saw my DSL had been disconnected about 3 AM. I walked 
through the setup instructinos Qwest sent me in the mail and 10 minutes 
later I was online again but with a fast speed.

Qwest never showed up so I'm not quite sure why I was told I needed to 
be home.

-- 
Jon
www.VoIPmogul.com