On Thursday 03 October 2002 08:35 pm, Jose A. Hernandez wrote:
Second, a couple of years later I bought my house and ordered
> their service and by then they had changed their ADSL setup to the G.DMT
> signal standard instead of the good old CAP setup they had before.  Now
> G.DMT is great, but Qwest had the error-correction feature called
> interleaving on the cards setup all the way up by default and it was
> adding 50-60ms of latency to my connection.  I was playing MN servers at
> 80-100 ping when I used to play them in the 20's-30's range.  Calling
> them about it revealed that the Cisco software for the DSLAM's did not
> allow for the interleaving to be changed.  So I cancelled.  That was a
> while ago so I don't know if they have overcome that hurdle.

Holy crap!  I was always wondering why most of our customers had a 20-30 ms 
ping and my connection at home was 60-70 ms.  I can tell you without a doubt 
that Qwest has not fixed this problem.  Damn this pisses me off.  I will have 
to see what I can do about it, I am sure that it will be an excercise in 
frustration but it doesn't hurt to try.


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