I have naked dsl through qwest, and I can tell you that I pay about $36
to qwest if i remember correctly after all fees and taxes for the
standard line.  $19.99/mo to visi, and I get 1.5Mbps down, 895Kbps up..

Dan

On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 03:20:32PM -0600, Ben Bargabus wrote:
> Sorry for the off topic post but I remember reading a bit about this at
> some point and I'm fairly sure it was on this list.  I'm getting a
> little sick of my $120/month phone bills and was thinking about going to
> Vonage to cut that back a bit.  I seem to remember someone here posting
> that you can have Qwest DSL without having Qwest phone service, is that
> [still] true?  Looking at my itemized bill from Qwest I have the
> following items...
> 
> Digital Subscriber Line Res - $14.95
> Qwest Choice DSL Dlx - $28.00
> Caller ID - $6.95
> Line-backer Inside Wire Repair Plan - $4.75
> Voice Messaging - $6.95
> Qwest.net Internet Services - $21.95
> [Misc local fees] - $13.52
> [Misc AT&T fees] - $10.79
> [long distance tax and surcharge] - $1.82
> 
> If I dump Qwest other than for my DSL connection do I just pay the
> $28.00 Qwest DSL Dlx fee or do I still pay for the basic line fee too? 
> Does Vonage have similar taxes and access charges to Qwest or are they
> truly $25/month out the door?  Qwest.net doesn't do a thing for me as a
> service provider so continuing to pay $21.95/month for them seems silly,
> can someone recommend a good but cheap alternative for DSL access as an
> ISP?  I really don't need anything but the other end of my connection. 
> I don't care about static IPs, I don't need phone support, I don't need
> web server space, I don't even need a POP account.  The only things I'd
> like are that they keep up with the 640kb I get from Qwest and that they
> don't cap total transfer bandwidth over any period of time (not that I
> really transfer that much but I don't want to have to worry about it).
> 
> Vonage users, did you have to purchase any hardware to make the system
> work?  Did the hardware they provide (if any) just plug right into your
> network hub/switch and run?  Anything you wish you'd known ahead of time
> that you can pass on to a potential customer?
> 
> Again, sorry for being off topic.
> Ben.
> 
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