Yeah, its fiber to the CO which gives you up to 20mb down. In my area 7mb up was available so I upgraded a few months ago to 12mb down and 7mb up, got a static ip and I use it for my own test server and some personal things. No one has complained, I wouldn't try to be a hosting center with that but if it isn't mission critical it works just fine. -Scott -----Original Message----- From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org on behalf of Josh Welch Sent: Wed 7/7/2010 3:16 PM To: TCLUG Mailing List Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Anyone with Qwest FIOS experience? I got some flyers from Qwest advertising that fiber is coming to my area (Prior Lake). On further investigation it appears that it's fiber to the CO (or some other distribution point) that's going to allow me to get better downloads than my current 1.5Mbps. I can get up to 20 down now but all the plans are 768Kbps upstream. Lame. I'm trying to decide whether additional downstream capacity is worth it for me to upgrade. Josh On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 2:34 PM, Matthew F. Unger <mfunger at arbita.net> wrote: > As far as I know, no one is offering fiber to consumers in the greater > TC market. The two consumer fiber products I'm aware of are FiOS (from > Verizon) and Uverse (from AT&T). If you know of someone different, let > me know, because I'm looking to get away from this stupid cable modem. I > really don't want to deal with DSL because frankly, I don't trust Qwest, > and they're lines have been the source of my frustration with DSL. > > Cheers, > > Matt > > -----Original Message----- > From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org > [mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org] On Behalf Of Ryan Coleman > Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2010 2:00 PM > To: TCLUG Mailing List > Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Anyone with Qwest FIOS experience? > > Kathryn, > > Is that for DSL or Fiber? > > That sounds like DSL to me. I was told *nothing* about MSN on the phone. > > -- > Ryan > > On Jul 7, 2010, at 1:51 PM, Kathryn Hogg wrote: > >> >> Ryan Coleman wrote: >>> We're getting FIOS in 55125, the rate to my residence (20Mb) is > $29.95 a >>> month for six months... >>> >>> Does anyone have any experience with this? running your web server, > and >>> what not? Is the base modem pretty decent or should I be considering > an >>> upgrade? I did opt to purchase the modem ($8/month rental otherwise). >> >> What are your options for ISP? I was told that for residential > service, >> you had to have MSN as your ISP. >> >> -- >> Kathryn >> http://womensfooty.com >> National Team Donation - http://womensfooty.com/freedom/donate >> >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota tclug-list at mn-linux.org http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/ms-tnef Size: 4508 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20100707/b674fbca/attachment.bin