US-West started rate-limiting at the DSLAM as soon as they had the ability to do it (older users were grandfathered in with unrate-limited speeds). Adam Maloney Systems Administrator Sihope Communications On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Gabe Turner (officer) wrote: > But was USWest capping it, or were the ISPs (e.g. USWest.net, VISI, etc) > capping it? I'm pretty sure my ISP (Sound Internet, www.scc.net) as always > allow people to burst. Though, I've always had bridged DSL and not routed. > > Gabe > > On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 11:08:42AM -0500, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: > > They didn't always offer it. When you started the service, they didn't know > > how to cap it. They now do. They have been capping new installs for quite > > some time. Just lately, they decided to open up the pipe again - because of > > competition I am sure. They have sent out letters to all the 256K > > customers stating as much. Now, some of the ISPs in town will not or have > > not lifted their own caps on the service, so even though the line works at > > 640, the bandwidth is still capped at 256. I am wondering who out there > > seems interested in competing with USWest.net? > > > > Tom Veldhouse > > veldy at veldy.net > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Gabe Turner (officer) <dopp at acm.cs.umn.edu> > > To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> > > Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 11:02 AM > > Subject: Re: [TCLUG:21012] USWest DSL and local providers > > > > > > > USWest always offered it at 640k, it just wasn't advertised. I've had DSL > > > since Oct. '98 and have had 640k the entire time. They just advertised it > > > as 256k and let those close to the CO burst up to 640k. For the last 2 > > > years I've been consistantly getting 60kb/s downloads. Though, uploads > > are > > > a different matter and have always been capped at 256k. Anyone notice and > > > increase in upload speed? > > > > > > Gabe > > > > > > On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 10:49:56AM -0500, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: > > > > Now that QWest has officially opened the pipe to 640 Kbps, are there any > > > > providers in town (other than USWest.net) that will offer these speeds > > and > > > > static IP's for residential customers? > > > > > > > > Tom Veldhouse > > > > veldy at veldy.net > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org > > > > For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org > > > > > > -- > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ------ > > > Gabe Turner | X-President, > > > UNIX Systems Administrator, | Assoc. for Computing Machinery > > > U of M Supercomputing Institute for | Univerisity of Minnesota > > > Digital Simulation and Advanced Computation | dopp at acm.cs.umn.edu > > > > > > "You seeck leettle monkey!" > > > - Ren Hoek in "Stimpy's Invention" > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ------ > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org > > > For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org > > -- > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Gabe Turner | X-President, > UNIX Systems Administrator, | Assoc. for Computing Machinery > U of M Supercomputing Institute for | Univerisity of Minnesota > Digital Simulation and Advanced Computation | dopp at acm.cs.umn.edu > > "You seeck leettle monkey!" > - Ren Hoek in "Stimpy's Invention" > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org > For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org